The Steel Guitar Forum

I sold my only pedal steel guitar about 4 - 5 years ago and have always regretted it. So, I've kept my eyes peeled for an 'affordable' steel to come up for sale. Lo and behold, my local big-box music store (gee,see?) has one for sale! Only $550 bucks! To temper my huge case of G.A.S. (gear acquisiti...

There's different "flavors" of distortion effects, and it leads to confusion because there's different terms for what is essentially the same thing... I'll try to make it less confusing. Here, in order from least distorted to most distorted: "Overdrive" - A pedal designed to simu...

I'm pretty sure the Maestro (Gibson) FZ-1 fuzz pedal was the first "effect pedal" made, I think it came out in the early 60s.

I don't remember seeing amplifiers with either reverb or tremolo until the late 50's ~ early 60's era either.

Thanks, Jim. **************************************************** This is a single-neck 10 string E9 guitar with 3 pedals and one knee lever. I believe it's an "Emmons" copedant. One single-coil pickup with no markings, about 16K ohms DC resistance. This guitar is in good condition. It inc...

My Music Man HD-212 is no longer for sale.