Post by jimwilliams on Jan 31, 2015 12:02:06 GMT -6
I was trying to emulate a blues harp set-up my old band member used to record and play live with. He used a Shure Green Bullet mic wired low impedance to avoid losses and microphonic cable noise. That fed a 1980's era Shure in-line step up transformer with a 1/4" plug on the end plugged into a Fender Twin front end. That created enough push to overdrive the amp to create the classic Little Walter blues harp sound.
Without any of that I found a great sub. I used one of my handmade Jensen Direct boxes. Any passive DI box should also work. It was used backwards, the mic went into the XLR outputs using a Shure female to female adaptor. The 1/4" "input" was fed into the Fender amp front end with a short guitar cable and I got all the fidelity plus the needed output to overdrive the preamp. With a old Shure Unidyne III SM58 I got all the fat overdrive I needed, it got so close to the old Green Bullet sound I was shocked.
Those Jensen DI's I built have more lives than my cat. Every room should have a set, they saved my ass many times doing live recordings.
Without any of that I found a great sub. I used one of my handmade Jensen Direct boxes. Any passive DI box should also work. It was used backwards, the mic went into the XLR outputs using a Shure female to female adaptor. The 1/4" "input" was fed into the Fender amp front end with a short guitar cable and I got all the fidelity plus the needed output to overdrive the preamp. With a old Shure Unidyne III SM58 I got all the fat overdrive I needed, it got so close to the old Green Bullet sound I was shocked.
Those Jensen DI's I built have more lives than my cat. Every room should have a set, they saved my ass many times doing live recordings.
