Videos of the Day 25 Jan 2013: Andi Martin’s Youtube Channel
Andi Martin is a strong blues harp player based in Madrid who’s using a Digitech RP355 loaded with my patch set in his live performances. We like it. You can hear one of his performances in the video...
View ArticleJamming at the Cottage Bistro in Vancouver
I was stranded in Vancouver this week for a day while a big storm came through New England, so I put out a message to the harp-l list asking if anyone knew of a good show in that town on Friday night....
View ArticleLooping the Big Sounds: Like, wow
I’ve been putting loops together using the Zoom G3 and Digitech RP355 running in parallel, and the sounds are amazingly big and colorful. The samples below, recorded directly to my Digitech Jamman...
View ArticlePreparing to record my first EP with Brian Maw
Brian Maw is going into the studio in Idaho Falls this weekend to record some tunes for a new EP. I’m waiting for the mp3s so I can lay down the harmonica tracks in my home studio. One of the first...
View ArticleThe new patches for RP250/255/350/355 are here!
The latest (version 16) Huntersounds patch sets for Digitech RP 250/255/350/355 are now up for sale at our store. These sets will be available from our retail partners in a few days. All current...
View ArticleUnforced Error of the Day; Or, How I (Almost) Fried My RP255
I’m going to be delayed delivering tracks to Brian Maw for the new EP. This afternoon I was setting up to record some tracks for the EP in my hotel room in London. I brought my Digitech RP255 to London...
View ArticleVideo of the Day 12 March 2013: Steve Baker Talks Tone
Steve Baker’s got buckets full of tone. Want to know how he does it? Check this out. Dig the Fabulous Thunderbirds “Girls Go Wild” (my favorite T-birds record) poster in the background. Tone matters....
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Writing is Work, Music is Play
The title says it all. Writing is work to me. It’s permanent by its very nature: you record your remarks and they remain, subject only to the viability of whatever medium they were recorded in. Because...
View ArticleHave You Tried My Un-Traditional Patches Yet? Neil Warren Did…
Neil Warren is the 2011 National Harmonica League (UK) Rock and Blues winner. He bought a license for our RP355 patch set last year, and he’s taken a big step recently. We’ll let Neil speak for...
View ArticleVideo of the Day 26 March 2013: Eugene Ryan and Liz Davis Maxwell, “The...
The Kerfunken Jig is a traditional Irish piece, performed here by my Dublin harmonica buddy Eugene Ryan and Liz Davis Maxwell on cello. The instrumentation of chromatic harmonica (very nicely rendered...
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Finding the Killer FX on the Zoom G3
As I continue with development of my patch set for the Zoom G3, I’m starting to find the killer FX on this box. For a start, I’m falling in love with the “M-Filter”, which is a filter based on Moog’s...
View ArticleWhy I Spend Time Making Sounds for Harmonica Players
I want to be part of something that lives and grows in my own time, not something that stopped changing and growing 50 years ago. That’s why I make sounds for the 21st century: so harmonica players can...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Maw Band Kickstarter Project! (Hey! I’m in the Maw Band!)
Anybody who reads my blog regularly, or even glances at the videos on my homepage, knows that I play with Brian Maw’s band in Idaho. I love this band. It’s set me free to explore everything I can make...
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Goodbye to the Maw Band
RIP MPHBrian Maw and I decided to part ways this weekend. It’s too bad. I loved playing with the Maw/Preston/Hunter trio. But Brian wanted to put a different band together–a more conventional rock...
View ArticleGetting all Emotional for “Copper”
I got a call last night from Brian Keane, a producer I’ve worked with on a number of projects. Brian is scoring this season of “Copper”, a BBC series about a detective in New York City in 1864,...
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I’m Liking the Seydel Session Steel
Last August at SPAH I bought a Seydel Session Steel harmonica in the key of A from Rupert Oysler. Since then I’ve been playing that instrument frequently and hard, and it still plays and sounds pretty...
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Recording “Copper” Episode 19: An RP255 and a Fireball V Does It
As I noted in a previous post, I got a call Friday night from Brian Keane, a composer and producer that I’ve done a number of sessions for. Brian wanted me to record acoustic harmonica for a scene in a...
View ArticleA blast from my past, courtesy of Randy Singer
Randy Singer is one of the best-known harmonica players in Miami and thereabouts, and we’ve known each other since roughly 1980. Randy just unearthed the clip below and sent it to me, and I was glad to...
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My Two-Modeler Rig: A Few New Insights
I’m still developing patches for the Zoom G3, and I’m starting to think more about designing patches expressly to be used in combination with the Digitech RP355. (That’s a pretty selfish use of my...
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Bringing out the Big Amp to Bring out the Low End
I’ve been working with the two-amp-modeler Zoom G3 + Digitech RP355 setup for long enough now to know that my Peavey KB2 amp, with its brave but outgunned 10 inch speaker, isn’t going to cut it for the...
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