I improvised and recorded “Peace to You All Tonight” a few weeks ago. The piece is played on a standard diatonic harp in second position. The signal chain starts with an AKG BT330DT mic (my preferred harp mic in 1987, when I bought it, in a signal chain that included a Boss BF-2 flanger, an Electro Harmonix Memory Man delay, and a Fender Twin Reverb amp), which is input to a TC Helicon Voicelive Play vocal processor running a factory preset that’s supposed to sound like the vocal processing on Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl”. I think it sounds pretty good on an acoustic harmonica.

I recorded the performance on my Digitech JamMan Solo XT looper, and transferred it to Audacity to convert it from WAV to mp3. That’s about it for the processing. I think the piece speaks for itself pretty clearly in this recording.

The most interesting thing about the piece is the constantly shifting chord voices and counterpoint, all of which are performed in real time here without overdubs.

Enjoy. Merry Christmas. (Please note that we retain all rights for commercial exploitation of this material. Contact us if you’re interested in discussing same.)

“Peace to You All Tonight” written and performed by Richard Hunter. Copyright ©2015 R Hunter/Turtle Hill Productions, all rights reserved