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Hi. I asked my wife if I could buy myself a mic, and she said yes. So, can you make a suggestion? I am on Level 4, I don't play in a band but I want the amplified sound, and around $100-$125 is my budget if possible, though maybe I can get a black Friday on a better mic to keep it at that price. I'll also need a cable. Can I play on a standard guitar amp (left over in my cellar from when my son lived here and played guitar as a teenager). Thanks.

Hey folks!

I was using Audacity on my Windows PC for my records for bluesharmonica.com. 

But since the earliest update the programm don't want to play my mp3's. So I decided to deleted an reinstall the program with 

the earliest update again. And then I became a virus warning. I tried it again. And again the warning. 

I was looking for informations about this case and I found this on a computer website:

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In the Hohner Rocket Low model harmonica, which has the lower pitch?  Is it the key of F model or key of C model?

Hi,

does anyone have thoughts or experiences on using a spectrograph app (smartphone) to work on his bends ?

For me it looks like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOa-aNnFXY8

and sure one can hear, that my bends need work, but now one can clearly see it too :-)

So I am kind of optimistic, that this will help me to improve ...

Did anyone try something similar ?

Best,Marc

I may have seen some prior discussion about this. The plastic case that Hohner sells with its CX12 is a tad oversized. I.e., it'll fit not only the harmonica, but also a family of five. And their dog. continue reading...

Hello, all. Recently I changed the gain, tone and amp settings on my Micro Cube and now everything sounds the same. Regardless of whether I crank the tone or the gain all the way down or all the way up and regardless of what amp model I choose, all my recordings sound exactly the same, not bad, just without any change or effects. Turn off, then turn on and still no changes at all. Weird.

Does anyone have suggestions on this?

Hello, all. I record all my sessions in order to gauge my progress. My current rig for recording at home is this: bulletini into a Rolandmicro cube; line out from the Roland into iMac's 3.5mm mic jack; record into garageband on my 2011 iMac. 

Ill be ditching my iMac in favor of a MacBook Pro once the new ones come out in October but I'm pretty sure they won't have a line-in for a 3.5mm mic jack As the inputs will likely be limited to usb-c, SD card, and hdmi. Any thought on how I can connect the Roland to the new MacBook? Thanks in advance. 

Ace

Hi

just released harp_scale_trainer a simple program to help practicing scales on a diatonic harmonica.

It is free and open source and runs under linux only ! (but wslg in Windows 11 will do).

harp_scale_trainer has two modes of operation:

'Listen' just listens to your playing, shows the note and tells you, if it is from the chosen scale.

'Quiz' plays random notes from the scale and asks you to play them back. continue reading...

MegaTone is offering a couple one-off small combo amps, built from some scrap amps making them into a compact version of the WEZO ME-18 using our 30 watt circuit.  The first offering, made with an Epiphone Gallaxie 10 shell, recovered cabinet with new hardware, has already sold.  The version shown below, built into a Fender Blues Jr. shell sells for $2299 and includes a custom Tuki cover, a single ten inch Jensen Tornado speaker, and a weight of just 24 lbs.  more details are posted on our website megatoneamps.com