The Steel Guitar Forum

Just wanting to put some feelers out there. I know the new ones are fixing to come out soon, but I’m interested if anyone is thinking about selling their’s. All of the stomp boxes I’ve got at the house sound great, but the dry signal/natural tone of the instrument plugged straight in is ruined by th...

Well, at least we tried :D I recorded all of the commercial bumps going into break(One was heavy C6th swing first thing, and another was a country 4/4 shuffle steel solo) as well as accompanying Megan Moroney, Nate Smith, Lily Rose, Avery Anna, Chapel Hart, and Jackson Dean in the staff band. Four o...

I know there’s a lot of complaints about not enough steel in new music or anything leaning toward traditionally influenced/honky tonk style. But I’ve produced a new song for my dear friend Tim Bolo at my new studio I’ve built in my house. Tim is a talented guy and one of the biggest steel guitar fan...

Thanks, everyone! I'll try and post some more videos/recordings this next year when I get a chance in between gigs.

Ryan, I think having two necks will give you more musical options than a single 12. I play alot of power chord doubling and gang-licks on C6th matching the guitar parts in the studio. Not to mention, being a lap based player you can navigate around on a 6th based tuning without pedals a lot more eff...

Hope everyone has a happy holiday season and Merry Christmas. I was trying my early Christmas present out from my dear friend Ray Hunt with this beautiful SD-10 Show Pro of his. It's got a prime piece of 350 year old Birdseye Maple from Wayne Cota in Vermont. It's still got his set up on there, but ...

You have been one of my favorites for some time now Eddy, and you did yourself proud on all of those numbers! It was nice to see a whole show where the performers and musicians all had on nice clothes and no distorted guitars. Not that I don't like some of that now and then too. And I got to see so...

We filmed this a couple of months ago, but just saw where it aired this week. Tommy Sims was music director and he assembled a very cool band. Luckily because of the material and Charley’s discography, steel guitar was needed heavily. I feel humbled and extremely undeserving for the call sometimes...

Jeff Surratt has worked on/refurbished numerous Crossovers over the past few years(including a recent one that was Scott Shipley's now with Steve Hinson) and Pete Drake's. He always rebuffed or finished the hardware to the best cosmetic shape it can be in. https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2020...

Shot on a Bud like Don Warden and Howard White's. Love seeing this!

+1 for Scott Swartz. His knowledge of resistance and inductance beyond just DC ratings and Ohms is unmatched on making the proper single coil. I replaced the humbuckers in my main studio guitar with his ZB dual-row magnet single coil pickup and I've never been so thrilled with my sound before. It gi...

Would love to hear the Steeltronics Z10 pickup on an aluminum neck guitar. I'd estimate it'd sound just like the wood neck, probably a little sweeter. To me, the neck has just a subtle influence on the overall tone of the guitar. Every part down to the screws matter, but the main factor is in the h...

Gotta ask, Eddy: Why just string 10 on your C6 neck? New Nashville fad? :D Great playing! I feel like you're a soulmate to the late Terry Bethel, and his wonderful approach to chords. That's quite a bar set! :lol: I wish, John. Terry was a unique soul and probably one of the most original steel pla...

Thanks for posting this, David! I'm a big fan of Danny's and LOVE that tone. Those hands and that guitar get it done right. Fessenden builds some of the best sounding steels out there today. And he's a cool cat. Now next I want to hear more Bb Universal from David!

What pickup did you have in your Show Pro previously? ZB sounds ✅ Marc, it was just a new 705. Which is my probably my fav humbucker. 710 is a little bit more masculine sounding, but pretty much the same tone. If I had to pick a George L, it'd definitely be the TW. The E-66 is good in an EMCI/MCI...

Thanks, Jon, Dave, Stu, and Scott! The pickup is a homerun for my situation and I feel like I'm hearing myself. Same with my guitar. It feels more like an accurate depiction of what my guitar truly sounds like. Goodbye harsh top end, compressed thickness, and muffled, uninspiring signal, etc!

I've been coveting those triple tap Dual-Row magnet pickups in ZBs and wish someone made one that one fit my narrow mount Show-Pro's. Then searching the forum, I saw where my buddy Scott Swartz was making new models at 14k that could be custom fit for my mounting and string spacing. So I took the pl...

Thanks guys! John, that Vox was just sitting in the corner and Hannah takes that out when she plays telecaster on the road live. I brought my Little Walter rig and put the cabinet in the room behind with the door shut and a 57 in front of it. It took me a couple of takes to get the hang of switching...

They're keepers!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ir4o57clmkzz ... l.mp4?dl=0

This is close.

https://www.wilsonart.com/hollyberry-d307

Here's a fun video I did with my good buddy on Arista Nashville, Hannah Dasher. She's a big traditional country encyclopedia, talented song writer with cuts like, "Go To Bed Early," for Brad Paisley. Not to mention a steel guitar fan and is a blast to record with. We did a social media pos...

Thanks, guys!

Got two on the way, and will have the soldering iron heated when I go to the mailbox :lol: Seriously though, a narrow mounted ZB pickup for my Show-Pro is something I've fantasized about for quite some time. Scott is a first-class electrical wiz and I applaud his efforts for filling the single coil ...

Just ordered two, and will be purchasing more sets for my other axes!

I just found a video I did with Lindsay Lou last year. Forgot how much fun the day was and how much steel guitar was featured.(Even a solo at 2:09) It's always a treat to get to play music without genre boundaries or putting a label on it. Hope you dig!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ2DTPROxKM