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From: BluesGe~ol.com
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:44:10 EDT
Subject: Re: B3 Harp

In a message dated 3/22/99 0:23:49 PM, Jim Dusen writes:

>Is all this neccessary for your harp sound? I originally bought the Korg
>for my keyboard. Probaby wouldn't have bought it otherwise. I used to
>use an old Mutron Phaser for my harp and that was nice too. Not quite a
>Leslie sound, but in the ballpark and quite pleasant. It all depends
>what effects sound good to your ears and what you think will please your
>audience...and of course how much you're willing to pay!

After fooling around with leslies and various digital solutions, I came to
dislike using them. I find that, for me, the most important element for
approximating the organ effect is to learn to play with the same feel,
inflection and lines conventional to the B3 artists.

Add to that, a little hand and mouth phasing to imitate the spinning leslie,
and a bit of throat vibrato with some tongue tremolo to imitate the B3's
chorusing effect, and you've yourself a real porta-B.

Interesting, listening to Kim Wilson on the new Jimmy Roger's "Blues, Blues,
Blues" I hear what sounds at time to be a tad bit of light (very light,
almost no) chorus. Not at all enough to be heard as an effect, but just in
there to color the sound in a very imperceptible way.

- -dave therault

- -dave therault