[Harp-L] walter tore's spontobeat beer can cooler amplified harp on the rack

[walter gloshinski <waltertore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been messing with using a shure 57 and a $5 homemade tie clip mic to amplify my harp through my princeton reverb reissue amp.  I started out with a toilet paper tube lined with a paper towel then tried a rubber beer can cooler.   I had about given up on the beer can cooler idea because the compression on the tie clip mic was overloading it and making it cut out.  The 57 worked fine but the size and weight of it was no fun and I kind of like the cheap mic sound better. It is different than the norm as am I :-).    
 
Today I took the beer cooler idea and added a big hole in the bottom so air can escape.  then I lined it with a paper towel.  It all fit together in rack easily and I dig the sound.  It is not noticably heavier than with just a harp in the rack.   the tie clip mic is encased in a pen top.  I used the clip on the pen to hold it on the beer can cooler via sliting the cooler and running the pen top through it.   Here are my first attempts with this new set up.   Walter 
 
 
get help when you are down
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10300438
taking you out of here
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10300431
diagnosed blue
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10300425
will you forgive me for my life
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10300404
living on the lucky side
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10300395
 
 
here are links to the harp rack rig
 
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/waltertore/124.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/waltertore/123.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/waltertore/122-1.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/waltertore/121-1.jpg