The Steel Guitar Forum

In my blues jr the stock speaker is plugged into a pre-existing 1/4 inch speaker jack. It's hidden a bit. Though I haven't plugged in a 15 so far, I've had good luck plugging in different speaker cabs for different tones (JBL sounded great for steel, Celestion vintage 30 sounds great for six string ...

I have an ETS and I don't get pedal noise through the pick-up, but I did find out when I did some recording last year, that I was picking up the sound of the pull rods in the undercarriage moving. As I've seen others do (not only on ETS but other makes of guitars), I used some foam between the under...

Joel, I sent you an email.

There is actually only one audio version of the song. He is just showing himself playing the lick on bottleneck in the video, which has this one recorded version as the audio track. So it's kind of like the musicians in any music video miming their playing to the pre-existing track. This is just the...

Tom, "deeper relationships with those around you who naturally happen to share your values and understanding" was what I was getting at towards the end my more detailed explanation. I have very deep and long-standing relationships with musicians in my circle, and we tremendously value each...

Just to clarify the situation: The artist is a singer-songwriter from the east coast that I met last year while both of us were working on a show for a mutual friend out here in Los Angeles. The only face-to-face contact with the singer-songwriter was a couple of weekends. When he found out I played...

Last year I played some PSG on a few tracks of a friend's (actually, more of an acquaintance) album. Today, a mutual friend shares the guy's video premiere of one of the songs on Facebook. In the video, the guy is shown playing bottleneck of what is the song's signature lick, originally played by me...

I did the bill m. Twinstack mod on my blues jr (http://billmaudio.com/wp/?page_id=58 ). I also replaced the preamp tubes with low gain tubes (at the billmaudio website he has recommendations for tubes to use). The twinstack mod took about 10 minutes to do and immediately changed the inherent muddy, ...

For the past several years I have been using an iPad with the irealb app. I probably have over 500 chord charts for the various bands that I play in. For lyric sheets or lead sheets in .pdf format I use good reader or set list maker. My aching back has been thanking me for going tablet, and I don't ...

Jim, I took lessons with John McClung when he lived in Lakewood, he has since moved to Washington state, and gives lessons via Skype. He has a very well-thought out and systematic curriculum. You'll probably go through at an accelerated pace since you've already got a solid background in music theor...

For the piezo to pick up the vibration most effectively, the string must exert downward pressure on the piezo element, therefore the saddle must sit square and flat in the bridge slot.As someone stated above, it appears in the picture as if there are two shims, one of which does not span the entire ...

Jazz dance shoes are pretty minimal, very, very thin sole and almost no heel. You can get them in slip ons or lace ups. Next best thing to being barefoot, while still maintaining more of a" black dress shoe" look.

You can find out everything you need to know about Blues Jrs and a bunch more that is good to know at http://billmaudio.com. He has several pages of mods as well as suggestions of what type of preamp tube to use (whether high gain or low gain) to change the tone of your amp. There's lots of info on ...

I sympathize with you. I've only been playing pedal steel for 2 years, though I've been playing 6 string for 40 years. I'm age 51. I've always made my living playing or teaching music, or working music retail. I've had off and on tendonitis problems over the years, but nothing that a couple of chiro...

Nice job on the restoration. I've got one of these. I bought it from my guitar teacher back in '79. Of course, back then it was used, not vintage. lol. I got the head and cabinet (12" tone ring with a replacement D-120F). He had painted it black because nobody wanted a white amp in 70s (luckily...

I had this very problem when I changed strings last week on my ETS 10 stringer. It was only happening on the plain 6th string. I double checked to make sure every thing was smooth and lubed and still had the problem. I had been using GHS strings, but this time around I tried some George L's. I final...

I use the L1 compact (which is lower power than the one you're looking at) for everything from acoustic guitar/vocal gigs to full on rock band gigs running electric guitar, keyboard and two or three vocals (usually we play bars and outdoor casuals so drums don't need mics and bass uses his own amp)....

I second the Schatten banjo pickup. Except for the jack mounted on the tuning rods, you can't visually tell that it's electrified. I run it through a Baggs Para DI set to flat, then if need be I'll cut any frequencies that feed back (which, surprisingly, isn't that often). I feel that it completely ...

The middle chord is not a C augmented. It is a C diminished. Second string is the root C (lever lowers string 1/2 step); third string is dimished 5, Gb, (b pedal 1/2 step raise); fourth string is minor third, Eb, (f lever is 1/2 step raise); sixth string is Gb, (b pedal, 1/2 step raise). The chord o...

I talked to Quilter at the NAMM show in Anaheim. They've held up release of the Steelaire because of EMF regulatory standards. They thought it would be to market by late February.

I'm pretty sure that was Greg Leisz.

I played my first gig on PSG after 4 weeks (it would have been 2 weeks, but the bandstand of that gig was too tight to fit another person in the band, so I sat that one out). I bought a lap steel from a friend. A couple of weeks later he lent me the pedal steel he had been trying to learn on. I bega...

I have a schatten pu in my recording king banjo and usually have no gain problems interfacing with various PAs and amps. I do throw a Baggs Para DI in the cable box, just in case I'm somewhere in which I need to notch out a feedback frequency.

Hi Jerry. PM sent.

i just read this post and I'm puzzled. I'm not puzzled as to your personal reasons for not wanting to go into bars, taverns, or places where people drink. That is your decision. Fine. I do not believe in any god, and I often don't go to these places just because I don't like being around drunk peopl...