Mike Potter

Lol! Yeah I hear ya, when I first started playing sax I took some lessons from a local player who had that cool rock and roll gritty sound. In the first lesson he looked at my mouthpiece (typical student model “low baffle” piece) and started laughing. I got a full lesson on mouthpiece design that day, but he let me use one of his berg’s which…[Read more]

Thanks William, I’m using a fairly high baffle mouthpiece and a pretty soft reed (select jazz 2 soft). Usually I play a 3 medium but I thought I’d try a softer reef just to see how it sounded (plus bitting the low notes was much easier!!).

Thanks folks! This was so much fun, music is such a great thing to be able to share with my family.

John, yes my oldest grandson is also playing sax! He was playing alto and wanted to play tenor so I picked him up a student model tenor (Jean Paul) and he’s doing really well.

Yeah mouthpiece positioning is always a comfort vs tone trade off. If go by what I was always taught (about halfway up the bill” I get a good tone up till D3 and the it gets more difficult to hit the altissimo notes, I end up adjusting to compensate. But the I watch videos of some of my sax hero’s (Sanborn, Red Prysok, King Curtis) and it loo…[Read more]

Very cool!

I bet he enjoyed every second, I know I enjoyed listening to it (still do)!!!

Sounds good, I use two of them (one for reverb & the other for delay) when I’m playing with my band and I’m running the PA. I still haven’t figured out how to master the effects on my mic into my monitor mix, using the mic mechanic overcomes my lack of technical ability! Plus I thing they sound very good on sax.

cool! thanks!!

Yeah new stuff is FUN!! I’m taking my Mark VI for a checkup this week. It’s been playing really stuffy, I recorded this on my Eastman 52nd St tenor. Really nice playing sax, big sound like a king but with really easy playing action. My only complaint is altissimo is more difficult to play than normal, lol, not that I was consistent hitting alt…[Read more]

Thank you! I used a West Coast Sax “soul machine” mouthpiece on this recording. It’s similar to an MBII with a bullet shaped baffle.

John, I was looking at the fiber carbon fat boy mouth piece but the link to get pricing doesn’t work. Are you still selling them?

I ordered one, in the silver composite material, got it for $70. It’ll be interesting to see how it plays.