Digitech RP Tips and Tricks: How to get the Most from Your RP
This page contains our tips and tricks for harp players using our patch sets for Digitech RPs. We add new tips to this page frequently, so if you’re interested in getting the most from your RP, stop by every once in a while to see…
More Hot RP500 Sounds With the Lucky 13, Plus a Gift for RP500 Patchset Licensees
Happy Holidays everybody! (And no, that is NOT a political statement.) I’m still working on the sounds to go with the songs for the upcoming recording sessions for my next record, “Blue Future.” My favorite tool for making orchestral sketches (“orchestral” used here in a…
Mustang II v.2 patch set in beta, Mustang III v.2 patch set under development
I found out a day or so ago, just after I completed work on the beta test version of my first 24-patch set for the Fender Mustang II v.2, that bulk load patch sets created on the Mustang II won’t work on the Mustang III….
The Fender Mustang II v.2 has arrived–first impressions
I took delivery today on the used Fender Mustang II v.2 amp I bought online from Guitar Center. I paid a total of $146 for this amp shipped; could have saved another $26 by picking it up at the nearest Guitar Center, 45 minutes away,…
Get Ready for the Huntersounds Fender Mustang Patch Set
Inspired by David Barrett’s review of the Fender Mustang I modeling amp, I downloaded Fender’s FUSE software for the Mustang v.2 amps today. Very impressive. Unlike Digitech’s Xedit, you can run FUSE without a device connected for purposes of editing and saving patches, and I…
The Phil Wiggins/George Kirby/Andy Calder show in Jackson was a blast
I had the opportunity Wednesday night (10/25/2017) to hear Phil Wiggins, the great country blues harmonica player/ singer/composer, with George Kirby Jr. on guitar and Jackson local Andy Calder on standup bass at the Pink Garter in Jackson, WY. It was a great show, with…
Digitech’s iStomp does a lot of cool stuff for short money (UPDATED)
For the last year or so, I’ve been using an effects pedal from Digitech, the iStomp, in front of my Digitech RP500 running my patch set. I just added another iStomp to my rig, and I reckon it’s time to talk about it.
“Blue Future” is delayed, but don’t be blue
As regular visitors to this site know, I’ve been planning to follow up my record “The Lucky One” with a new set of songs called “Blue Future.” The recording sessions were scheduled for October, but I had some family medical issues on the very weekend…
My Three Big Contributions
I’ve been playing harmonica since 1967, recording for myself and other artists since 1970, and helping other harmonica players make better music since 1980. In the last fifty-plus years I’ve made 3 major contributions to the art of the harmonica: 1) I wrote Jazz Harp,…
How I recorded “Put The Lever Down” (2017 version)
Where “Put the Lever Down” came from I wrote the lick and harmony on which “Put the Lever Down” is based while I was hanging out in my car at one of my daughter’s skating meets around 1981, playing with a Dorian Minor tuned diatonic…
