[Harp-L] Re: great harmonica solo featuring the boss auto wah

[Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice solo, nice support from the band.  Lee Oskar has a wah device in his kit by Boss called the T-Wah, very similar to the AW3.  I've posted a number of pieces to my site at hunterharp.com using the Digitech RP's modeled version of their FX3 autowah.

Autowahs work very, very well with harp, in fact better in my opinion than they work with guitar.  The autowah effect generally reacts to sound pressure.  A guitarist can only affect sound pressure in the note's attack, i.e. by picking harder or softer.  A harp player can use breath pressure to trigger the autowah, and breath pressure is a continuous controller.  So in addition to the cool rhythmic quacking noises that guitar players generate, harp players can use an autowah to produce a continually modulating stream of sound.  It certainly gets your attention.

The first effect any electronic musician needs is a delay.  The second thing I'd get for harp is a pitch shifter.  The third is an autowah, or maybe a rotating (Leslie) speaker effect, depending on how out-there you want to be.  Of course, a multiFX device will give you all of those with one purchase. 

Regards, Richard Hunter



-----Original Message-----
>From: Randy Singer <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jun 9, 2014 2:22 PM
>To: "harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: great harmonica solo featuring the boss auto wah
>
>Here is a solo from my live band featuring the boss auto wah
>
>https://soundcloud.com/randysinger/soul-shadows-using-aw-3-dynamic-wah
>
>I have not heard a lot of solos using this particular effect.
>
>The solo features some tasty jazzy and bluesy licks over the song SOUL SHADOWS by bill withers.
>
>It has amazing changes to solo over and I thought this effect was perfect for the composition.
>
>enjoy and feel free to comment.
>
>https://soundcloud.com/randysinger/soul-shadows-using-aw-3-dynamic-wah
>
>


author, "Jazz Harp" (Oak Publications, NYC)
Latest mp3s and harmonica blog at http://hunterharp.com
Vids at http://www.youtube.com/user/lightninrick
Twitter: lightninrick