RIP Toots Thielemans
I learned a few minutes ago that Toots Thielemans died at the age of 94. It’s impossible to overstate how important Toots is and was to the development of modern harmonica styles. If you play chromatic harmonica, you had to decide whether you were going…
Big Shimmering Textures: Comin’ Home Baby Looped Live
I recorded this performance of “Comin’ Home Baby” live, using Lee Oskar natural minor harps in G and F, an Audix Fireball mic, a Digitech RP500 running my patch set, a Digitech JamMan Stereo looper, a Peavey KB2 keyboard amp, and a Zoom H4 to…
Richard Hunter's harmonica + amp modeler series #3
This video includes the sound of a harmonica played through a direct amp model with a diminished 5th pitch shift, plus a mesa boogie amp model with a major second pitch shift. Big and dissonant.
