Pull of the Moon July 20 2010
Take a listen to this piece from WhyNow’s latest rehearsal, July 20 2010: “Pull of the Moon” . Richard Hunter/harmonica, Lexi Bodick/bass, Tracey Kroll/drums. It’s a rough mix, of course, and it sounds cool to me… I’m using my regular stage rig: Digitech RP250, RP355,…
A review of Richard Hunter’s RP350 patch set
This review of our Huntersounds patch set for the Digitech RP250/255/350/355 was posted to the harp-l list by Australian harp guru Tony Eyers on 4 March 2010. Digitech RP355 In recent years amp modeling pedals have developed significantly. For example, the Digitech RP series offers…
Should your main rig be an amp modeler instead of an amp?
The traditional harp player’s rig is a mic, a tube amp, and a reverb or delay pedal. But there’s something new out there, and it has the potential to change the way harmonica players work and sound. “New” is overstated, I guess. Amp modeling technology–which…
The Pro Page
Welcome to our Pro Page, where some of the best professional country, rock, jazz, blues, and classical harmonica players in the world tell you what records they listen to, what harmonicas they use, and the gear they use to perform and record. We inaugurated this…
Hunter’s Effects Settings for the Digitech RP200
If you want to know what setups were used to get the sounds you hear on Hunter’s electric harp pieces, you’re in the right place! We began in June 2002 with a setup for the Digitech RP200 multi-effects pedal that Hunter used for The Slide…
Effects We Love (and Don’t)
There are a LOT of great effects boxes out there, and prices are lower than ever, especially when you look at what you get for your money. But not all effects boxes work well on harmonica. This page is all about the stuff we’ve tried…
Richard Hunter’s new RP350 sounds for harmonica
Harmonica Resources for Beginners
This page is expressly for beginning harmonica players. It contains links to valuable resources for beginners, broken out into three categories: Answers and Advice Instruments, Software, and Tools Instruction Answers and Advice Check out our new PRO PAGE, where top players in country, blues, jazz,…
Loud, proud, and inexpensive–What’s not to like?
I get a lot of questions from beginners about what gear they should buy to get started making amplified music with harmonica. In this piece I’ll make a couple of simple recommendations for gear that does a few things well: It sounds good. Not just…
Tom Ball's Favorite (Harmonica) Things
Tom Ball began playing guitar at the age of eleven and took up harmonica three years later. As a teenager he was a founding member of the Yerba Buena Blues Band. In 1979 he teamed up with guitarist Kenny Sultan, a partnership that to date…
