Holmes Engineering Introduces the Harp Commander 4
Ron Holmes, the outstanding amp tech who built my customized Crate VC508 (my little 5 watt Blues tone monster), has just introduced the Harp Commander IV, a nice piece of gear by a guy who knows harp gear. Details can be found here. The Harp…
Saving Money on Gear
Musicians buy gear. The value of gear is expressed in terms of price for performance–what you pay versus what the stuff does, how well, and for how long. Either lowering the price, or increasing performance (if the increase is actually usable) increases value. I offer…
The Digitech Jamman XT Express: Synced Loop Firepower, Cheap
Digitech has just announced a new looper, the Jamman XT Express. I haven’t seen or touched one yet, so I don’t know how it performs in action. However, the feature set is both stripped down and immensely powerful for the price, provided you already own…
The RP500 Set is Locked and Loaded NOW WITH PATCH LIST!
I’ve completed the patch design, programming, and setup for the first RP500 Huntersounds patch set. Basically, it’s the v16 set for RP355 with 15 new patches. Some of those new patches, like a set I created with a Tweed Deluxe amp model–my favorite “clean” amp…
Two Days, Three Jams in London
I was in London Sunday through Tuesday of this week, which was perfect for checking out some blues jams. On Sunday, I hit the afternoon jam at Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues and the evening jam at TCR (Tottenham Court Restaurant). The two clubs are…
Going Wireless
I’ve been spending time thinking about how to make my rig look smaller and more compact. One of the important approaches to that end is cable management. The most prominent cable on the stage is the one that runs from my harp mic–i.e., from the…
So Long to the Big Amp, At Least For A While
My Peavey KB/A 100 started producing lots of bad sounds last night–crackles, pops, booming bass, sudden drops in volume. After 18 years, I guess it’s overdue for service. Anyway, I’m back to the KB2 for the moment. Depending on what it costs to repair the…
Bringing out the Low End with the Big Amp
I’ve been working with the two-amp-modeler Zoom G3 + Digitech RP355 setup for long enough now to know that my Peavey KB2 amp, with its brave but outgunned 10 inch speaker, isn’t going to cut it for the super-saturated low end frequencies that I’m laying…
My Two-Modeler Rig: A Few New Insights
I’m still developing patches for the Zoom G3, and I’m starting to think more about designing patches expressly to be used in combination with the Digitech RP355. (That’s a pretty selfish use of my programming time, given that I doubt most of my customers will…
Hear our new Huntersounds RP155 patch set samples!
We recorded EVERY patch in the new RP150/155 set, and we’re putting them up here as fast as we can. You’re hearing my Fireball mic into the RP155, which goes into the first channel (line) input of my Peavey KB2 keyboard amp with 10″ speaker….
