The Steel Guitar Forum

A Boogie in a road case is way too heavy. Weight did not seem to be a design consideration. If I had to carry it all night long instead of listening to it that would be a different matter. ------------------ What is that thing that you play? members.aol.com/rndhd www.oldfriendsband.com

I switched to Boogie amps about 5 years ago. I haven't found anything I like better since then.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR><SMALL>In your opinion, which models would be best matched for steel? </SMALL><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I tried a bunch of Mesa's when I was looking for a "Twin" sound with more horsepower. I settled o...

My main steel amp is a EV loaded Boogie MKI. Like Bob said go for the 4 6L6s and a huge speaker. It also took a little tweaking time to get to the sweet spot and have a lot of clean overhead. Besides weighing a ton in the road case and the reverb being a little "transparent" it works well ...

I'm one of those 2 amp 1 mic guys. Same through both amps just for more headroom, (IMO it looks cool too). Doesn't matter what I bring I get the same number of sends to the board each gig. We carry our own sound system that is always wired for stereo. Some gigs we can use it other times each stack f...

I agree on the two amp thing. When possible, of if staging allows, I use two identical Boogie MKI reissues. I use the preamp on one amp out of the FX send to a Lex/dual parametric eq/mixer then into the fx returns on both amps. I use the mixer to run the Lex in parallel with the dry signal. I stack ...

I like guitar riffs on the steel. Take 'em and add a cool PSG twist. Then throw them back at the guitarist in the band that has been copping your licks for so long. I love dropping seeds like that and then and watching the guitarist try to pick up on the added PSG twists. Whats wrong with pulling th...