Re: [Harp-L] Approaching an unfamiliar PA

[MundHarp@xxxxxxx]

The tiresome thing is that the harmonica player rarely has any CONTROL over 
 the PA.
It is often the luck of the draw...
But fellow harmonica players, I suggest you make friends with the sound  
man. They can make or break your performance.
John "Whiteboy" Walden
Just now...
In Scotland.
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/20/2012 7:13:06 P.M. GMT Daylight Time,  
martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx writes:

When  you´re in a jam situation going through a vocal mic and just barely 
have the  time to make some adjustments to a PA, the conventional wisdom, so 
I have  thought, for harmonica players is to set full bass, no treble and 
mid to  somewhere round 11 o´clock.
However, I just read that this setting  could actually cause a more shrill 
kind of sound than giving a bit of treble  and backing down on the bass.
As usual, I have no idea -- and  not very much chance to experiment; I only 
know that one of the most horrible  noises known to mankind under the 
general caption of "music" is a harmonica  with insufficient equalization. It 
pains me to think that I may have  unwittingly been a contributor to this kind 
of environmental  hazard.

Anyone with thoughts on  this?

Cheers,
Martin