I've had several folks ask me what I'm using to play my harp through. Here goes. I have several amps that I use, but my number one amp is "The Victor Bluesmaster". This is a amp that my friend and master tech, Victor Creazzi, aerofirewp@yahoo.com  hand built for me. It's a Weber kit clone of a 1959 Fender Bandmaster. www.webervst.com  All point to point hand wired. I have 2 Alnico Weber 125s and a ceramic 150F for the speakers. This speaker combination is perfect for the harp. It has been re-tubed with a AT in V1, a AY in V2 and a AU in V3. It uses a copper rectifier, not a tube. This gives a much tighter bottom with less sag. The amp was constructed using a true tone stack instead of the presence control. The circuit is wired according to the original 5E7 circuit. It pushes about 35 watts, and can be quite loud when it has to. This is by far the best harp amp I have ever had or heard!

I also play through a 1964 Gipson GA 75 with 2 tens. This amp was rebuilt for me by another great tech, Noel Stubblefield. It's a true class A amp with about 40 watts of power. It sounds great for the true Chicago Blues sound. For smaller rooms I have a modded Fender Blues Jr. The speaker has been replaced with a Weber 150F. I built an extension cab with a 12" Emenince speaker. For lower volumn gigs this amp sounds great. I re-tube all my amps to make them harp friendly.

For studio sessions I sometimes use a 1971 Fender Vibro Champ. I can get some incredibly overdriven sounds out of this little amp.

For several years I played through a Mini Brute II. This is a solid state amp but it has great harp tone. It's semi-retired now.

For mics I have played through a original (50s) Shure Green Bullet for many years. I also have blown through a Astatic JT 30 with a crystal element. Since I've gotten the "Bluesmaster", I almost exclusely use a Electo Voice RE 10. I also have a Electo Voice RE 8 that I use in the studio at times. The RE mics are excellent for harp, especally if you are using pedals. On occasion I'll use a SM 57. For acoustic gigs I'll play through my vocal mic, an SM58 or I use a Microvox. The Microvox is a tiny hand help mic that sounds incredibly good. It will give you a pure acoustic sound or if you cup it tight, a big over blown sound. Great mic!

I play through a pedal board. The mic goes into a small inline volumn control. www.blowsmeaway.com. Next up is a Boss OC2. I use the OC2 much like Jason Ricci, as a compressor. Very little effect and opened up all the way. It gives a nice fat tone to the harp.  I then run my signal into a MXR 10 band EQ. That in turn goes into a Electro Harmonix HOG. The HOG is a very verstile octaver/modulator and envelope filter. It is true polyphonic and creates a incredible array of sounds for the harp. Next in line is a Hughes & Kettner MKI Rotovibe. This is my hand held B3. I can approximate organ sounds very well with this tube driven effect. I then run a Maxor AF9. I can almost get a trumpet like sound using this effect. It also gives me a very funky attack to single notes.  Next in line is a Boss DD3 delay with the Monte Allmus mod.. It is set up to give me long, mutiple repeats. A very nice effect if not over used. The next pedal is a classic Boss DM 2. This is an analog delay that always stays on. It is set up to give the harp a slight amount of space. I adjust it according to the enviroment I'm playing in. The final output goes through a BBE sonic maximizer - stomp box. All of this goes into the amp I'm using.

That's my rig. When I first started playing over 40 years ago, I plugged what ever mic I had , into whatever amp I was using and went for it, but that was a long time ago!

Dan