Re: [Harp-L] Be the horn section

[Vern <jevern@xxxxxxx>]

 Planning to buy one for myself, I played my harmonica into my son's harmonizer.  It sounded terrible!   Think fingernails on a blackboard.

As a digital device, I believe that the harmonizer had an insufficient sampling rate for the high overtones of the harmonica.  The result was aliasing...tones unrelated to the harmonica or the guitar.   See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing

IF you filtered out the high frequencies with the equalizer controls on an amp, it might work better.  However, don't buy a harmonizer without trying it out first.

Vern



On Nov 4, 2012, at 7:59 PM, Robert Hale wrote:

> Richard Hunter,
> 
> Years ago I read about a device that simulated the "blip" waveform of the
> tone from a trumpet, and was planned for use on guitars. Now that we have
> these marvelous Voice harmonizers, how cool would it be, to BE THE HORN
> SECTION with a harp?
> 
> At the time I tried a vocal harmonizer, it tracked very well for vocals,
> and not so tight on harp tones. Richard, have you spotted anything doing
> this really well?
> 
> I'm speaking of the pieces designed for guitar and vocalist, where the
> guitar input defines the chord and the harmonizer creates matching 3-part
> harmony for the vocal input...where we would use the harmonica instead. In
> the case where we are not the guitar player, too, we would arrange for a
> splitter to give us the guitar signal into our harmony processor.
> 
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