From: Rob Paparozzi Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 11:27:15 -0800 Subject: Re: Amplified tone-revisted!
Clj~ol.com wrote: > > ( which > I like but have a feedback and volume problem), and JT astatics (which > I thought I would find the magic set up. I'm > saying this to save some players some of the money I have wasted. It would have been better spent on lessons.
Hi Chris, nice post, sorry I'm a little late in responding to this thread. Amen Brother, there is no "magic setup" every room makes your setup a moot point, a rig is only 1/4 of the pie...beginners should spend more time on practice programs and lessons, they're tone will get better in the interim and then the "Rig" thing will fall into place.
> Having said this, I would not discount how important amps and mics are > to one's style of playing. My acoustic tone is still ahead of my amped tone, > but when I strive to transfer tone through the equipment instead of because > of the equipement I make some progress in improving my "amped sound". It has > been more difficult to achieve a good amped tone than I would have thought > years ago. It's almost the more you know the more you have to strive for. > My favorite players of GREAT amped tone are of course Big and Little > Walter in that order, Kim Wilson, and Rob Paparozzi in the next generation. > Clear or distorted big or small rig their amp tone seems to always sound just > chrisM Agreed, the Rig should NOT be discounted, but incorporated into the whole practice approach. BTW, Thanx for the compliment, we could debate TONE for years, I agree it's a such a subjective concept. It is still my contention that the "core" of the Tone emanates from the Diaphram and interacts on the way up from the lungs with the Glottal structure and mouth, externally the hands, cupping, mike and amp etc. further shape the total sound and leave us with the finished product.
Thus, ALL these factors come into play when we talk about a player's tone. Magic Dick told me over 20 years ago that you should try to practice even at home, using your complete rig...I believe that it's fine to practice acoustically but you should set aside time at home using your "setup" it really helps with the TOTAL sound.
PS. these days I'm using a stock Blues Deluxe with a stock Shure SM57 and a Boss Digital Delay on occassion. I find I can use this rig for both Blues and Jazz either Diatonic or Chromatic and it's not too heavy to carry either.-)
On a studio note: I just finished recording for an HBO flick w/ Susan Sarandon which airs next Sat. 3/20 called "Earthly Posessions", kinda' quirky music, same composer that I played Bass Harp for on "Flirting w/ Diaster". Anyway, I used SM57 right thru the board for the whole soundtrack and it worked fine for this particular gig. One of the strangest spots musically, is a bank heist scene to an almost world music version of the Rascals old " Beautiful Morning", The composer had me comping over this on diatonic...it works!..in a strange way.
- -- All the Best, Rob Paparozzi Email: Chromb~arthlink.net My Web page: http://home.earthlink.net/~chromboy/
