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Brad Higgins

Thank you all so much for your kind words, I can really see why I stayed way from this forum for so long while my wife was slowly dying of cancer!

Brad Higgins

Thank you so much Gary, an incredible woman!

Brad Higgins

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Brad Higgins

As I said before, the .068" Live Steel String COMPLETELY SOLVED MY PROBLEM! Thank you all for your suggestions, but PLEASE NO MORE SUGGESTIONS, THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brad Higgins

Bob Hoffnar wrote:Brad, did you try D'Addario or Frenchy's strings ? I'm interested in your experience.

Yeah Bob, I almost always use D'Addario for both steel and guitar, never tried Frenchy's strings though.

Brad Higgins

Brad, I'm all E9th so no experience with the 070 plus I have not seen any comments on the 070 as compared to others. I will be glad to send you an 070, tune it up and run it thru the mill, I only have a nickle now but can have a stainless in a couple days or so. Ray, I went to the Live Steel String...

Brad Higgins

Brad, I am a dealer for Livesteel Strings, What is the guage of the string you are having trouble with, I am at rayssteel@gmail.com Ray, the .068" Live Steel String arrived today and I put it right on my steel, a BIG improvement, it's definitely the best low C string that I've tried so far, an...

Brad Higgins

I'm going to try out one of Ray Thomas's .068" Livesteel Strings, and see how that sounds in comparison to the one I'm using now.

Brad Higgins

The reason I keep saying STRING suggestions is because I know just how important the string's core, windings, and gauge are, and how they can drastically affect the crispness and tone of a string, because I did some part time consulting work for John Cavanaugh the owner of Super-Sensitive Strings, a...

Brad Higgins

I'm actually extremely happy with the tone, equalization, and crispness of ALL of my strings (EVERY SINGLE ONE) except for that one, and when I change that one string with other gauges and/or brands I get varying degrees of deadness, in other words, some of the strings that I tried sound better than...

Brad Higgins

PROBLEM SOLVED!!! I knew that Buddy Emmons always had great tone with ALL of his strings, so I went out and bought a derby, that string sounds so much better now.

Brad Higgins

Jim Palenscar wrote:I just did a comparison and the ProPik QuikPik is brighter than the Fred Kelly's which are brighter than std thumb picks.

Thanks Jim, but I'm looking for a string NOT a pick, only one of my strings is a little dead sounding, not all of them. But again, thank you.

Brad Higgins

I would like to thank everyone for your various and unique suggestions to my simple question, thank you!

Brad Higgins

I currently have a .068" stainless, which surprisingly enough sounded better than the .070" that I tried, but it's still just a tad duller sounding than the ninth string, and I found the same thing with every steel I've ever owned. I guess it never really bothered me much before, because I...

Brad Higgins

I've tried I don't know how many different string brands and gauges, even a couple of bass guitar strings, and just can't seem to find a low C string that doesn't sound a little bit dead, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Brad Higgins

Today I noticed that Electro-Harmonix just came with some new guitar synth pedals for synth,organ, and piano using a standard guitar pickup, and they're only a couple of hundred bucks each. Electro-Harmonix EHX KEY9 Electric Piano Machine B9 C9 Keyboard Guitar Pedal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Brad Higgins

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Brad Higgins

Brad,

Beautiful "Song For Patricia" - I loved the way you brought in the strings. Very nice.

Clearly you have real building skills - I just mod. You parlor guitar is stunning - both in looks and sound.

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks so much Tony, you're too kind!

Brad Higgins

I've had pretty good results with both Casio guitars that put out MIDI directly and Roland GK guitars that will only drive GK modules or MIDI with a GK to MIDI converter. I'm planning on mounting a GK pickup onto a Fessenden 6 Shooter which has wider spacing than a 10 stringer. I'm going to use an ...

Brad Higgins

Great idea! I like MIDI guitar but for most it is very difficult to mix & match MIDI components. I built my own MIDI guitar using the Ghost system by GraphTech: http://www.graphtech.com/products/product-categories/electronics It works great with a ROLAND MIDI unit but with a Yamaha MIDI guitar ...

Brad Higgins

You could use two Roland synth units - each being driven by 6 strings. I certainly considered that, but after being a working musician for well over forty years I've grown weary of lugging, setting up, and tearing down too much crap at gigs. I keep down sizing more and more as time goes on, but tha...

Brad Higgins

agree with others .. if you could somehow add more string pickups .. you could get the unique pedal steel chord voicing .. on other instruments like piano and organ.[/quote] I totally agree also, I didn't make it this way because I ONLY wanted six strings to be midi, the main problem isn't as simple...

Brad Higgins

Congratulations on your pickup, Brad. I'm happy you are keeping after your cool ideas and inventions. It's been a while since we hung out. If you are ever in the Burlington area, maybe we can grab something to eat. PM me when you are planning to be in the neighborhood. :0) Hey Chris, it's great to ...

Brad Higgins

Not to derail the thread but I thought Rusty Young was using a midi-pickup back in the late '80s. Does anyone know if that's true and if so, what pickup he was using? I only owned one Poco album, so I'm not sure, but could very well be, I think that's around the time they first came out with guitar...

Brad Higgins

Larry Allen wrote:Thanks Brad...I am using 1) Piano 2) Rhodes 3) Jazz Organ 4) Glide Organ 5) Vibes 6) Trombone 7) Acoustic guitar .....running thru an Alesis Midiverb4.NV112...Larry
That's a nice looking rig, I'll have to go read about the Midiverb.

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