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From: Rich Lyons
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:03:18
Subject: Amps/mics

At 04:40 PM 1/14/98 -0500, Steve.Levi~race.com wrote:

>Is that a circle of fifths arrangement?

Man, and I already quit drinking!

Here is the harp content....

My question is about amps. I see that vintage amps or the sonny Jr. or
Sonny Jr. II are popular, some more so than others. With the cost of these,
it would be very easy to buy a super clean power amp, latch it to a studio
clean speaker, and use digital equipment for distortion and the like. This
way, you could tweak the distortion and feature mixes any way you want for
any song you want, and always have "perfect" sound. I am new to harps
(starting to get pretty clean single notes, except the draw 4, which sounds
horrible... is it a nightmare note, or am I doing something wrong?) but
know sound equipment pretty well. Has anyone tried this approach, and what
were the results.

Also, I saw a harp mic that looked like a T and the top of the T clipped to
the harp and had a wire out of the bottom of the T. Does anyone know what
this is, and what to expect to pay for such an animal? I played in church
the other night, and people loved it (Amazing Grace, straight G harp). I'd
like to mic it a little better, and this would be trick, providing it isn't
some special mic that will cost more than building a custom small-block for
my Corvette (It's old, but I'm more high tech than vintage on it too!).

Please give me some feedback (skreeeeeeeeeee... oops!) on this, as I would
like to take the digital approach, but not if someone has tried it and it
isn't a good way to go.

Thanks,

Rev. Rich Lyons
rev_ri~nternetwork.net