Re: [Harp-L] re: Two harps

[Randy Redington <rwredington@xxxxxxxxx>]

Annie Raines and John Sebastian do a sweet harmonica duet in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmPOnRUDZAE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
 On Mar 8, 2014 6:29 AM, "martin oldsberg" <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You may very well be right here. It so happens when my only live instance
> of doubling harps occurred the other guy went pretty clean. That went sown
> really well, as I recall it.
>
>  However, when I overdub myself on Audacity -- playing unison or harmony
> -- and using a pretty dirty sound I think it works kinda all right.
>
>   But of course, that´s not live (more like "dead").
>
>
> cheers,
> /Martin
>
>
> >An unadorned harp, or a typically amped one, occupies a pretty specific
> frequency range.  An amped harp tends to put >out a lot of energy in the 1
> kHz-6 kHz range, which is a very powerful part of the frequency
> spectrum for human ears; it's >where a lot of the energy in rock and roll
> comes from.  A lot of other stuff in a band, like the singer and
> guitars, piles on in >that range too.  Put two harps together, and you
> can easily overload the audience's ears, not to mention making it
> difficult >for them to distinguish between what the two instruments are
> doing.
> (...)
> >But
>  two harps going through bullet mics into tube amps, the usual approach I
>  hear for a multi-harp setup?  Too much of a >good thing.  Switch out one
>  of those bullet setups for a pitch-shifted setup, or run one of the
> harps straight to the PA; >either approach will sound much better to
> everyone, and of course you can use both in a performance without much
> fuss.
>
> Thanks, Richard Hunter
>
>