“The Lucky One” video is up on Kickstarter!
I’ve just loaded up a video on Kickstarter that talks about “The Lucky One,” complete with a demonstration of several of the sounds I’m planning to use on the record! If you want to hear what kind of voodoo is going to be in the…
“The Lucky One” Quote of the Day: Jimmy Dean
“You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.” Jimmy Dean Click in this space to check out the Kickstarter campaign to fund Richard Hunter’s 21st century rock harmonica record…
“The Lucky One” Quote of the Day: Jean-Paul Sartre
To celebrate the Kickstarter campaign to fund “The Lucky One”, I’m going to run a quote about luck on this site every day until the campaign ends on July 1. I figure we’ll all know a lot more about luck when July 1 rolls around….
The Kickstarter Campaign for “The Lucky One” starts in a few days
As I work my way through writing and recording demos for my upcoming record project, “The Lucky One,” I keep in mind that making a record takes money as well as talent and dedication. On that score, within the next couple of days I’ll be…
An Open Letter to Digitech: Let’s Get With the (Software) Program
Yo Digi-folks, I’ve been an avid user of Digitech’s products since roughly the year 2000. I own four loopers made by Digitech, and nine Digitech RPs of various sizes, shapes, and capabilities. I don’t need to be convinced that the hardware works very, very well….
Recording for the next Richard Hunter record begins in July!
It’s been over a decade since my most recent CD was released. In the meantime, I’ve been busy with lots of stuff; I wrote three books, I saved my wife’s life a couple of times, and I created a revolutionary new way for harmonica players…
We’ve shipped the first update to our Zoom G3 patchset!
Our first update to our patch set for Zoom G3 was released to our licensees today. For this update we’ve reconfigured a number of our basic bread-and-butter patches to be louder, clearer, and better able to reject feedback. We’ve also included an alternative layout for…
A Little (Harmonica) Organ Music for Christmas
As I have for a while now, I’m exploring the sounds I can make with a harmonica and two amp modelers running in parallel. I recorded this piece with a Digitech RP500 running a patch that combines a Champ amp model with a rotary speaker,…
RP Tip #26: Set the AMP/MIXER Button
Digitech RPs have a button on the back panel labeled “Amp/Mixer.†We get a lot of questions about that button, all of which boil down to “which way should I set that button?†To answer that question we need to start with “what exactly does…
We’re ending development of new patches for recently discontinued Digitech RPs
We’ve been making patchsets for the Digitech RPs since the early 2000s, when we started with the RP200. We’ve designed some great sounds for these devices, and we’ll continue to do so. However, when a manufacturer stops making a device, there’s no point in continuing…
