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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2013 21:45:08 GMT -5
In researching microphones for use with a harp, I notice quitea big differennce between mics as far as tones. The "Bottle of Blues" sounds great to me. Anyone else familiar with this one?
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Post by sarge on Jul 10, 2013 4:17:01 GMT -5
I have one and I like it. Sure can't beat it for the price and Jim McBride is a great guy to deal with. The BOB and Smokey Amp is a great little set up.
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2013 18:12:42 GMT -5
Blows Me Away Charlie Musselwhite, 6-time Grammy nominee and 23-time Blues Music (aka W.C. Handy) award winner prefers his BlowsMeAway Harmonica Microphones (yep, he has two!) and in-line volume controls. "The mics Greg made for me have everything I like, want and have to have in a mic. First of all they have great tone. Second, they are very comfortable with easy access to the volume control; the wood shell makes it very comfortable to hold. And, third, they're great looking mics with a lot of class." Charlie Musselwhite - June 2008
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Post by dadfad on Jul 11, 2013 9:17:00 GMT -5
My present electric-harp mic (don't play much electric any more but when I do...) is an old WWII tank microphone with an Astatic crystal, I cut the handle off and added a volume-control. Prior to that for years I used an Astatic crystal I took out of an old police-car radio microphone. (I bought a box of them for twenty bucks at a police auction!) For the shell I used half of one of those little plastic Easter eggs that come apart to put candy in, etc. I'd lined it with aluminum-foil and put a volume-control on it. Not a bad hand-held at all.
For acoustic (and that's generally using a rack while playing guitar) I use an old SM-55. Another great "find." I bought four of them for five dollars each about twenty years ago at a local Baptist church's yard-sale when they cleaned out their basement. (I'd also bought a short pew I put on my back porch for a long time and a couple of hymnals with lyrics and notation!)
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