Gear Review: Bottle o’ Blues mic
The Bottle o’ Blues (also known as BoB) mic has a very distinctive sonic character–in particular, lots of low frequency response, with a reduced high end. The mic’s element breaks up strongly when the built in volume control is maxed out, which makes it a…
RP Tip #4: Dealing with hardware failures
There are basically only two kinds of moving parts on an RP: the expression pedal, and the up/down footswitches. There are a couple of ways these break down that have easy fixes. The expression pedal can break down when the nuts that hold it in…
Check Out Clint Hoover on “East Side”
I acquired a copy of the latest CD featuring Clint Hoover, Reynold D. Philipsek’s “East Side”, at SPAH in August 2010, and had the chance to listen to it all the way through on a long drive last night. Here’s a quick summary of the…
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…
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,…
