Getting a great organ sound on harp
Here are a few of the things I’ve discovered about getting a great organ sound on harp. 1) A rotating speaker effect is necessary to get an organ sound, but in itself it’s not completely convincing. If it’s all you’ve got, better than nothing. 2)…
RP Tip #3: Sounding like an organ with 1, 2, or 3 RPs
You can get different kinds of organ sounds with one, two, or three RPs. If you have one RP: use one of my patches with a rotating speaker effect, a phase shifter effect, or a univibe effect. Work the pedal to make the rotating speaker…
RP Tip #2: using two RPs
RPs are cheap, really, when you compare the cost of an RP to the cost of a dedicated effects device that only does one thing. There are plenty of guitarists out there who use more than one effects pedal, and there’s no reason why you…
RP Tip #1: rearranging the patches in your patch set
There are lots of reasons why you might want to rearrange the order of the patches in a set. For me, it’s usually because I’m using two or more patches in a song, and I want them side by side so I can move between…
Goodbye to all that
I’ve been fired from my power trio. Which is kind of a drag, especially given that I was the leader. The first problem from the band’s point of view is that I was gone all summer. It’s not easy to rehearse when the band members…
Video of the week Oct 20 2010: Charlie Musselwhite’s HO
Here’s a video tour of Charlie Musselwhite’s home office. Charlie is my original inspiration, and it’s nice to see where he works and plays.
Heavy Metal harp for sure
As people who’ve been visiting this site regularly know, I’ve been working on some heavy metal sounds for harp, sometimes using multiple Digitech RP devices running in series and/or parallel. I made a couple of brief recordings that show where the new sounds are going….
The new banner is up!
And we trust you like it as much as we do. Now back to making music. Stay tuned…
Check out the banner image candidates
We’re going to redo the banner for the site, which is the only thing on it I really don’t like. The candidate images can be found here. Just scroll down the page until you see them. When you’ve figured out which one is your favorite,…
…and they took me up on it
I heard back from SPAH today. Looks like I’ll be working with them on some stuff, exact nature of projects TBD. I can think of a few things that would be fun, but I’m not going to get ahead of myself. Stay tuned.
