Re: [Harp-L] re: Two harps

[Michael Rubin <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rainey and Glosson have an album out of around 10 songs in cross harp
harmony.  I have it on tape and every now and then I dig it up.  It is
great!


On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Rick Dempster <rickdempster33@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Two harps? Wayne Rainey and Lonnie Glosson. 'Haul off and love me' by the
> Delmore Brothers, is a good example, if memory serves.
> RD
>
>
> On 8 March 2014 03:53, 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
> >
> >
>