The Steel Guitar Forum

Thanks for everything, b0b! Heartfelt condolences to your loved ones.

Willy.

I replaced my pre-slimline S12 pickup with an Alumitone. Greatly improved the sound and no more hum! The nuts at the bottom are difficult to get to, but can be removed without taking all the rods off. I don’t remember how I did that. Installing the new pickup, however, had quite a pucker factor. The...

I inherited a NV112. How do you tell what year it was made? On mine, it's on the sticker (in small letters near the bottom right) on the back: https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/userpix2203/15129_PXL_20201109_000116474_1.jpg As you can see there's no sticker on the speaker, but I trust Jack Stoner whe...

I have a Nashville 112 and a TM Twin. I prefer the TM Twin and am still planning to sell the NV 112. The 112 is a 2014 model that says made in the US, it does not have a Blue Marvel (since all Blue Marvels seem to have an obvious label on the back) so I guess it must be a Celestion, although I can’t...

That is a pre-slimline model. I have one of those too, except it’s a 12-string - you can see that the key head on this one has room for two more tuners. Also mine has 5 pedals (4 knees). And I replaced the pickup with an Alumitone, which I can “coil-split” with a switch. All in all a good steel. If ...

I have used the Tone Master Twin with my d’Angelico Excel Madison, which has a Fishman pickup in it. I may have dialed up the brightness a bit on the Fishman tone controls, but other than that it sounds okay to me. Didn’t need to change a lot on the TM controls. I use the TM reverb, and that’s okay ...

I used to have a Peavey Classic 212, not sure it was a VTX. Got it in about 1975. It was my first guitar amp, in fact. It was okay for guitar, although I was never crazy about it, although part of it was my first electric guitar, a Gibson Marauder, which never sounded all that great. Many years late...

Just to clarify: the guy on the Framus in the video is Pussicat band member Johan Theunissen, but the steel player on the record is Frans Doolaard (as mentioned in the same thread).

Willy.

Johan Theunissen, according to this thread from 2015.

https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtop ... 96abb5694b

Was a favorite Dutch band of mine back in the day. Me being Dutch originally an’ all…

Willy.

I love mine. In fact I plan to sell my NV112. Anyone in the SF Bay Area interested, let me know.

Willy.

Fender now makes a Tonemaster Super Reverb, with four 10-inch speakers. That cab is big enough for a single 15-inch…

Willy.

Hi Jeff – (For anyone reading this: this started off as a PM conversation. But maybe this is of use to others.) As I mentioned in my PM, for Headrush rigs, I think the trick is to set the Headrush rig input gain (as opposed to the amp gain) very low, so that you have enough headroom for the amp yo...

This appears to be designed for classic Fender clean tone, so no provision for an onboard overdriven sound. Is that right? You can get an overdriven tone out of it by diming everything and dialing down the attenuator for volume control. But it’s not designed for overdrive from the amp. I hear it ...

If it really is tungsten carbide then it will be very hard to drill a hole in it, or put it in a lathe or anything like that. I think you may need diamond sanding/polishing wheels to shape it.

Willy.

Beyerdynamic dt 770. Comfortable, neutral, and not too expensive. Also good for most everything else you might want headphones for.

I have used it like that. Guitar on the vibrato channel using the reverb there, or using a reverb pedal (I sometimes put my Headrush Pedalboard before the amp), and pedal steel on the normal channel through a Strymon Big Sky reverb pedal. The attenuator affects both channels equally, so it is somewh...

Dumb question...does it void the warranty if you add tilt back legs ?

Well, the Tone Master Twin comes with tilt back legs already, just like a regular Twin. But I have it on an amp stand anyway.

Willy.

I use one and it works great. It is expensive, though, and I bet there are many modern reverbs that would work just as well, since I don't use most of the features on the big sky. To tell the truth, the reason I got the Big Sky was to make sure that THAT was not the problem in getting the sound I wa...

I use a Strymon Big Sky in the effects loop of my Nasville 112. It works very well. Does it work better than any other decent reverb? I don't think I can tell. I think it sounds better than the 112's built in reverb, perhaps, and certainly allows one to customize it to one's taste.

Willy.

different string brands

Tim, I admit I only ever used Ernie Balls on the Dekley. How much of a difference would it make though?

Different strings didn't make my Marauder sound any better, but perhaps that's different...

Willy.

This is pretty much the sound I hear in my head Bobby, to make things more complicated, the sound in my head varies a bit, from something like but not quite the one in that clip to the sounds on more modern records. But to me the Dekley isn't particularly close to it. As stated by others, maybe in ...

Hi Fred, thanks for the offer!

do you live in or around the LA area?

No, I'm in the SF Bay Area. I was in Tucson with my wife early February, and the thought of a side trip to Mesa did cross my mind, but it didn't work out schedule-wise.

I'll PM you.

Willy.

Unless what you're playing is truly absolute junk No, I don't think my Dekley is junk, far from it. It stays in tune, has virtually no cabinet drop, looks pretty good, and is fairly easy to work on underneath. It could use a vertical knee lever, and perhaps I should reconfigure a pedal (perhaps mak...

Jerry Byrd would say (with a twinkle in his eye.) If you don't know how to play, it doesn't matter what guitar you have. And if you do know how to play, it doesn't matter what guitar you have. Maybe one should add: "and if you're in-between, you need all the help you can get"? :D Just kid...

Thanks, Kevin!

Willy.