VT100XL with Harmonica

[AllanD]

I have just brought a VT100XL and am playing harmonica through a Shure green bullet microphone. I was wondering if anyone else was using the amp with harmonica. If so, any tips on setup would greatly be appreciated.

[AllanD]

Did my first gig with the VT100XL. The amp easily filled the small pub and I was setup a little by the sound engineer who removed my mic input from front of house, so it was all amp. I did however experience some feedback issues but found that if I turned down the gain a little this was overcome. I have now realized that the XL denotes that the amp has high gain models. I probably would have been better with a VT100 but I have it now and the clean channel with reverb has added a nice tone to the harmonica with ample volume. I use "busssaw" with reverb for the heavier songs such as Teen Spirit by Nirvana. (Yes a harp in Teen Spirit) I have experimented with flanger + reverb and this is also suited to the more heavy songs. It is when I use the effects that I was experiencing the feedback issues. Any how to deal with the feedback post them. Cheers.