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Excessive volume from the band is an extremely common problem for harmonica players. We have issues hearing ourselves (which causes feedback problems trying to raise above the volume of the band) and all ideas of musicality and dynamics are thrown out the window. Here are some tools you can use to help combat this... continue reading...

Students walk in with amps that have tremolo and they ask, "what's that do?" and I commonly say, "we don't use it" and move on to the tone controls. It IS used sometimes. Listen to Little Walter's 1960 release "Going Down Slow" where uses amp tremolo (the copy I have is from the "Blues With A Feelin'" release).

To loosely define amp tremolo... it's an effect that takes what you play and quickly fluctuates it in volume... similar to how we do it in the throat, where our vocal chords open and close in a rhythmic fashion to create what we call a throat tremolo. continue reading...