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Today - Talk Talk

Hell’s Bells - Bruford 

I don't play the harmonica yet ... but I ordered one from Thomann and it'll be here early next week. It's their own 16-hole Chromatic 64 model. 

I work in quite an old, large building with whole wings that are unoccupied, and I'm often walking about, so my idea is that I can carry the harmonica wherever I go and try things out in-between other work. I find myself wishing I had some instrument on me to try whatever happens to be running through my head that day.

A Chromatic makes more sense to me because I'm already moderately musically-literate, and the Solo tuning looks sensible. I don't see myself playing much Blues, Chicago or otherwise, though I might try that later. 

Good Grief - Bastille

Jack of Diamonds - Trad, Blind Lemon Jefferson & many more.

Turning … Turning Back - Alex de Grassi

Touch Me - Samantha Fox

Spanish Fly - Van Halen

Maniac - Michael Sembello

Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton

Stop! - Sam Brown

The Seventh Wave - Sting

Going Nowhere - Therapy? 

It's Too Late - Carole King

Stainsby Girls - Chris Rea

Speaking of Thomann: Pigtronix Octavia Fuzz Micro is on sale at the moment, just £42. I’m tempted - the full size pedal gets the nod from @Al Krow here.

edit: and they were all gone by Friday evening!

I see Thomann have some interesting pedal bargains at the moment e.g.

• Pigtronix Gatekeeper, Chromatic Tuner, Octava Micro Fuzz or Philosopher’s Tone Micro = £42 each
• Super 1313 Analog Delay = £66
• Line6 DL4 Mk.II Silver Anniversary = £174
• Hotone Ampero Mini = £139
• Peterson StroboClip HD = £34.

Not including shipping, of course! 

I Wish It Would Rain Down - Phil Collins

That's all I use mine on. One thing that gets kind-of overlooked about Klons is that the Gain control is essentially a Blend control. It's not quite that simple electronically, but I can hear no difference between zero gain and bypassed tones.

If you're interested in the circuit details, there's a good analysis here. There are actually three signal paths: the distortion section, feed-forward network 1 (which sends some clean lows forward) and feed-forward network 2, which comes in more as gain is reduced, balancing the distortion stage.

I wouldn’t say that is the absolute cheapest Klone out there e.g. you can get a Mosky Golden Horse for about £30. I have the dual mode Silver Horse version which adds a nice little mid boost at low gain. 

One More Time - Daft Punk

Cherry Pie - Warrant

Tomorrow - James

Welcome To The Real World - Mr. Mister

Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa