Re: [Harp-L] Help with Majic Dick

[MundHarp@xxxxxxx]

Magic Dick sounds like Magic Dick with or without amplification...
When I was 13 years old I heard a Little Walter Jacobs record, and back  
then I couldn't work out how he made his harmonica sound like a "horn"  either!
To get "that sound" Little Walter  used a cheap mic and a cheap  distorting 
amp...
It wasn't anything exotic... It was simply what was available to him at the 
 time!
But of course Little Walter simply had a "mega" tone just playing  
acoustically... As does Magic Dick, and so do just about all great  musicians...
 
It reminds me of the question and answer...
 
"How do I get to Carnegie Hall?"
 
"Practice man... Practice!"
 
If you want to hear a harmonica played through the "Karaoke" input on  a 
VERY cheap DVD player connected to an old TV set, using a one week old  $8 (US 
Dollars)  Chinese "dynamic" mic, check out:
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdsFFveByi0_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdsFFveByi0) 
 
John "Whiteboy" Walden,
 
 
English harmonica player.
(Who lives in the Philippines.)
Just now in Phoenix, AZ, USA.


 
In a message dated 26/03/2010 08:06:19 US Mountain Standard Time,  
ironhead603@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<<Any Majic Dick fanatics out there, i'm just starting out on  the harp and 
need some info on how to get his sound as far as equipment goes.  I know 
the notes will come in time but i cant figure out how to get is Horn  sound.

thx

Todd
>>