The Steel Guitar Forum

empress normally has a scratch and dent section on their website. they sell pedals with cosmetic flaws at something like a 20-25% discount. i got mine on reverb for super cheap (imagine that).

wow, great deal. i have a pair of the 12" and they sound great. if shipping wasn't so crazy i'd be tempted to jump on these!

i have an empress compressor. of the many that i've tried recently (wampler, keeley, ross) it is the best sounding one, probably because it is the most transparent. i think when you're dealing with compression on a pedal steel and going for a transparent tone it gets hard to tell what's going on. th...

that is cool. looks kind of zb inspired, including the undercarriage.

that's me. i had red light syndrome pretty bad, eben though it was in my basement. this group had a lineup/name change. we're working hard at making original honky tonk and beyond tunes (at the pace of, like, 2 a year). https://bigturnips.bandcamp.com/album/my-machine-we-had-fun[url] we made a telev...

you should be able find a nice d10 of the same era as your ldg. if i were you i'd make the trade. life's short, you might as well try c6!

john and mike are spot on. this a good, stable mechanism that is easy to work on. i had an ldg with the same mechanics. the trouble spots for me are the changer finger tops.they are potted metal coated with a chrome finish. when the chrome wears away, the finger will sound terrible. you can swap out...

arrrggg. i was looking for one of these all summer. then i paid all my credit card bills and am broke again. what a beauty.

loosen the screw on the barrel adjuster, and then roll back the shaft of the pot with a pair of long nose pliers. tighten the screw again.

i've been experimenting with compressors for a year or two now; wampler, keeley, tc electronics and empress. i've tried pre and post volume pedal. after all that time of fiddling, i can say pretty definitively that none of them have made me sound any better.

i think the seller is getting closer to reality and still has a few dollars to go. reverb is the land of fairy tale prices, and i'm sure fairy tales come true every once in a while. i'm sure this is a great guitar; i have one just like it!

waxing and potting the pickup are two terms for the same thing. microphonics are caused by air in between the windings allowing the windings to pickup vibrations. to fill the gaps, pickup makers will submerge the pickup in pot of liquid wax.

man, i'm so tempted by this guitar, but i think it is too much guitar for me! a certain well known player with the initials p.f. told me if i that if i could ever get my hands on one of these i'd be very happy.

tony, how do you find that set up compares to a standard session 400?

also, i can’t seem to find a place to order a new straight ahead (nor can i
find a price). do you have any leads on that?

thanks for your help!

i'm thinking of going lightweight with one of those new sesh pedals...i'm on the lookout for a jay ganz straight ahead amp.

thanks so much, ken. that's excactly what i was looking for. but... being hotheaded i went ahead and ordered these: https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/vishay-beyschlag-draloric-bc-components/MAL205018472E3/5632741?s=N4IgTCBcDaKHAEBWAbAWgLIEEAyYAMDcBGADgBYB2MAUQGYUA5AEThAF0BfIA i think they ar...

i need to replace the filter capacitors in the session 400 that just found its way to me.

does anyone have a current mouser catalogue number for the correct filter. it would save me hunting.

thanks

have you considered telonics pickups? i've had a few. though expensive i think they sound incredible.

if you can find weber neomag 12" they would be pretty cool in the twin, i think. those altecs must sound great!

after looking at the 1974 pictures, i think you should run and buy it. go! you will probably never find a better sounding machine.

the 1974 version, hands down. pictures of the underside would help us know if anything is out of place, but for me there is no comparison…1974.

and a one more time!!!

if you can source the parts i would say it's not a big project. if you're missing some, it gets tougher pretty quickly. i was lucky enough to get parts for a pro 2 i had from michael yahl, but i had to get a machinist to make the cross shafts, knee lever brackets and work out the linkages. your chal...

if you can source the parts i would say it's not a big project. if you're missing some, it gets tougher pretty quickly. i was lucky enough to get parts for a pro 2 i had from michael yahl, but i had to get a machinist to make the cross shafts, knee lever brackets and work out the linkages. your chal...

well… my first guitar was a stage one. i like vintagey type stuff, but never having sat behind a steel before, i wanted one that i knew was working. the vintage lover and lloyd green fan in me soon bought an ldg. a few years later i wanted to play some c6, and everyone is always going on and on abou...