Take a Look at the Artist’s Notes for “Blue Future” Right Here
The blues is traditional music. Traditional music is about roots and blooms, and this record is one of the blooms. This is not a traditional blues harmonica record, though I have certainly drunk from the deep well of blues harp history for some of the…
What’s “Blue Future” All About?
Lots of harmonica players use effects nowadays. My intent on this record was not just to make new sounds with harmonicas, but to put the harmonica into a range of new roles in the band (as well as a couple of more traditional ones, like…
A bunch of great-sounding setups for harp that cost well under $1000
The fact is that gear for harp players has never offered better price for performance, and it’s entirely possible to put together a rig that sounds great–or will when you play harp well enough to get a good sound from the instrument–for well under $1000….
Richard Hunter jamming harp at the Acoustic, Black Rock, CT 30 Sep 2019
Digging the iStomp again
I recently decided that taking my Joyo American Sound to jams by itself is not enough. I wanted a battery-powered delay too. My first inclination was to order a used delay pedal. Then I decided instead to try loading one of Digitech’s delay pedal models…
Mastering Is Done For Blue Future!
Mastering is complete for the first five of ten planned songs for my 21st century blues record “Blue Future”. The pieces sound great, and as soon as we have the art work ready we will send copies to all of our Indiegogo supporters, followed by…
Richard Hunter Q&A with Harmonica.com!
I’m featured in a new interview, lavishly illustrated with videos, by Justin Norton at Harmonica.com. Justin wanted to focus on the innovations in my path, and I was glad to oblige. So check out the piece. If you liked that, you’ll like these: the…
One of the things that make my sounds different
It occurred to me today that working with multiFX devices like the Fender Mustang 3 and the Digitech RP500 has allowed me to approach sound design in a very different way. Call it an FX-centric approach rather than an amp-centric approach. We’re all familiar with…
