Mike Potter

Pete, I should have picked up a merlot, they play smoother than the black widow. I’ve tried a number of ligs, like you finding a good fitting life for these large pieces is a challenge. But, I’ve been using a Saxworks Clarity ligature. It can literally be used with any size mouthpiece. Go check them out.

Hi Pete, I was using a 10M Fan Black Widow hard rubber mouthpiece and a Copper Carbon fibereed on this tune. It’s a bit mellower than my metal mouthpiece I usually use.

Thanks Pete,

I redid the song using my hard rubber mouthpiece, much mellower (which was kind of what I was wanting). The link above is no longer working, anyone wanting to give a listen please use this new link.

Mercy

interesting, I don’t hear much difference in my tone when I play a copper or a select jazz 3S but they do have a different feel. I’ve tried hemps in the past and found them to be very stuffy for me. I’ve heard folks say the copper is much brighter but I haven’t experienced that in my setup, I find the cane reeds I use are equally as bright on my…[Read more]

So far, I’ve been very happy with the copper reeds I’ve purchased, I picked up two at the NAMM show in mid January (just before they released) and I dropped my mouthpiece with on of the on and it chipped the reed, but it would have destroyed a cane reed as well. The other one I’ve been using since January and it plays great (I would have gone…[Read more]

Thank you folks, this was a very challenging song, I listened a bunch of times to Johnny play it and then listened a bunch of times to Marvin sing it, then I’d try recoding it and just blow the timing. This wasn’t a “one take” song, I’m sure my neighbors think I have Tourette’s!

Now on to a duet with my oldest granddaughter, she plays alto in…[Read more]

Thank you Mel, Jake and Gary!

Thank you Jake. Yeah I do a lot of growling and some flutter tongue mixed in there as well. My mouthpiece is very similar to the piece you’re playing (metal/high baffle) so it gets a certain amount of “buzz” to it on it’s own. I was thinking of the sax player for George Thorogood back in the day (Hank Hurricane Carter) and his lines in bad to…[Read more]

Sounding great!!! Keep it up!

Thanks Johnny!

Thank you gents! Johnny, yes that the copper medium on my new mouthpiece, the copper is a fantastic reed!