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Post subject: Blues Harp Amp
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:20 pm
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What's a good blues harp amp, Chicago style? Prefer one speaker, low watt, small, light wieght. All brands except boutique. Have 90's Fender Bronco which may be perfect but harp mic is in transit. For home use or miked. Crunch, Delay maybe Reverb built in would be great. Epi Valve Jr, Hohner Hoodoo, various Fenders. Don't want to pay for Vintage. Whatayagot, my 2 Hole Draw Compadres?


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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:12 pm
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Pignose 7-100. Around $50 used on ebay, etc.

I use mine for guitar and I love it, but I've heard about people using them for harp as well. Not much clean headroom, though. They're bluesy scream machinces. They're smaller than the amps you mentioned and they don't have any onboard effects (just a volume knob).

The pignose is a one-trick-pony, but what it does it does very well.


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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:42 pm
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Our harp player uses among other things a Roland Cube. The guy sounds amazing.


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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:25 pm
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For harp a Bronco may not be too bad. I owned one briefly when I wanted a practice amp inbetween my rack days and my Princetons and it doesn't do clean well at all. You'll want to mic it to be heard in the PA - either a 57 or a E906 will do the trick.

FYI our harp player uses a standard SM58 for harp and it sounds great; I know he could get the Shure Green Bullet, but in a pinch, just get a 58 and a XLR-1/4" transformer adapter.

I bought a Roland cube for a fly-in band reunion in Chicago, and the thing was versatile for its cost. through a PA sounded pretty good on guitar.

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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:09 pm
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The Pignose g40v, 40w tube amp that sounds sweet with a speaker upgrade and new tubes. Originaly a harp amp, but I use it for guitar.

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I converted mine to a head and use it with a 212 cab with celestion G12 80's, very sweet.
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