If we’re using this as a good excuse to post ace harp music, I submit Omnia’s Morrigan:
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Veracruz harp music is wonderful; thanks for this.
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I think I’d like to hear the intro to Pink Floyd’s ‘Sorrow’ on that pedal harp…
Actually I just discovered it as a result of seeing one of her videos on another website recently.
I’ve been watching and listening ever since, it is indeed wonderful stuff.
When I ran sound I used to mic acoustic guitars, front and back if possible, even if they had a piezo. Just gives me more to work with, and if those signals aren’t helpful, I don’t use them. But when you need a little something extra, it’s great to be able to mix in a bit of the thick, dark sound from behind the guitar.
Then I later worked for a band with a guitarist who often used a MIDI guitar, and could send me clean guitar, distorted guitar, and the synthesized instrument. Talk about having something to work with!
Why this isn’t more common, especially for cases like this, I dunno.
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OMG. That’s real?
I got this book for XMAS, and it’s the epitome of “gear porn”-- you start lusting after some device you will never see in a store window, ever. Plus, after a few pages I start thinking “oh, another fuzzbox, I bet it sounds really ‘radical’, right?” /s
I am fully gunna check that book out!
Yes some of my pals are lifelong audio gear nuts and it’s contagious fun! They have started making custom efx toys as gifts for each other. I am working on doing “circuit bending” to make an old old school analog drum machine act weird. This gift should get me into the club, I hope, for now I just bring as much PA gear as I can to the parties and enjoy playing with all the knobs and sliders. It’s a hard club to get into because a fuzz box is a fuzz box but a solid brass insulated knob is holy. Ever get into an hours long passionate discussion about “strain relief” for audio wiring? I know the bbq to join if that’s your thing, lol.
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Watching the smiles on the guitar players face as they expect awesomeness and she delivers with ease.
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Nerf Herder! Damn, it’s a very long while since I’ve seen that band mentioned. I’ve actually seen them play, and I’ve got the tee shirt - they played a great little venue in Bristol, England, called The Fleece, formerly a pub called The Fleece and Firkin, it was originally a wool warehouse. Seen many great bands there over the years, holds about 200-250 people, the stage is chest height with no barrier so up close and personal. And sweaty at times.
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Not a disease, its a lifestyle.
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Some asshole dinged her video as harmful to children and YT took it down for a while. Back up now.
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And today in Humans Are Terrible, as this video started going viral, someone reported it as somehow inappropriate or dangerous to children, I forget the exact accusation, obviously false but it got taken down for a while. Back up now AFAIK.
@noahdjango My wife is a professional harpist, and two of her harps have built-in pickups with 1/4" outputs. She also has an adhesive pickup that you can stick inside and move onto any harp, cheap but not fantastic quality. She’s considered buying an electric harp, or an electroacoustic harp, but has not done so yet.
@gabe_oakes You can, but recording a harp is surprisingly difficult. They’re very resonant, and tend to clip even at pretty low volume on most mics my wife has tried (over a dozen at this point). Mics that work great for speaking, singing, guitar, and piano can fail miserably at harp. On one of her harps there’s a specific note she has trouble recording - I think a B flat. Even her best mic has trouble with that one under most circumstances. If she ever needed a really high quality recording, she might need to re-tune the whole harp to a different middle A to make it off-resonance.
Edit to add: Gabe, if you’ve ever done harp recording, and have recommendations for mics that don’t have this problem, or other ways of fixing it, I’d be very interested to know what they are.
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This may be the first time that “harp” and “epic” can be uttered in the same sentence.
They’re all suck buttons if you really work at it.
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Hmmm…
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I see you and raise:
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