Re: Tigerman tone

[Andrew Wimhurst <awimhurst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Wilson also does things like put his amp in the bathroom to get a big 
natural reverb, as well as recording the signal from the amp to the 
desk through funky mics, including harp mics like old green bullets.

My favourite Wilson tone of all time is off the "Pinetop's Boogie 
Woogie" album from Antones. He told me that he used a tweed Pro with a 
big square magnet on the speaker, and that the amp never sounded as 
good again after that session.

cheers
Andrew

> If I recall correctly it was a Gibson GA-90, six 8" speakers. If you go
> to www.harpamps.com you can find snippets of this thread in August of
> 1996. Tom Eliis offers that several multi speakered Gibsons were used
> on this particualr recording and that there was a lot of tweaking of 
> the
> tone post production. I have to agrre with you, this is about the best
> modern harmonica tone I've heard. Junior Watson's guitar playing might
> even be better. Talk about a great tone. An unfortunate aspect of many
> speakered Gibsons is that guitar players also like them. Good luck
> finding one that's affordable. A grand total of 947 were shipped from
> 1953 through 1960. A pair of 5881's but this is a low wattage amp, 25
> total which is probably why it sounds so good for harmonica. Very low
> plate voltages. I just looked at the schematic, 385 volts on the
> plates. fjm

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Wilson also does things like put his amp in the bathroom to get a big
natural reverb, as well as recording the signal from the amp to the
desk through funky mics, including harp mics like old green bullets.


My favourite Wilson tone of all time is off the "Pinetop's Boogie
Woogie" album from Antones. He told me that he used a tweed Pro with a
big square magnet on the speaker, and that the amp never sounded as
good again after that session.


cheers

Andrew


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recall correctly it was a Gibson GA-90, six 8" speakers. If you go 

to www.harpamps.com you can find snippets of this thread in August of 

1996. Tom Eliis offers that several multi speakered Gibsons were used 

on this particualr recording and that there was a lot of tweaking of
the 

tone post production. I have to agrre with you, this is about the best 

modern harmonica tone I've heard. Junior Watson's guitar playing might 

even be better. Talk about a great tone. An unfortunate aspect of many 

speakered Gibsons is that guitar players also like them. Good luck 

finding one that's affordable. A grand total of 947 were shipped from 

1953 through 1960. A pair of 5881's but this is a low wattage amp, 25 

total which is probably why it sounds so good for harmonica. Very low 

plate voltages. I just looked at the schematic, 385 volts on the 

plates. fjm 

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