The Steel Guitar Forum

If you can get an original BL705 with the chrome surround you won't get a better pick up although I believe they are quite hard to source these days. Wallace Tru tone are also a great pick up.

I think I am the odd one out here, the cube doesn't work for me at all, the line out has such a weak signal that it just doesn't work going into and through the pa.Putting a mic on it just don't work either just not a balance with the rest of the set up. So it's just sitting in a corner gathering du...

Hi Ken, So that was straight through the amp,sounds really good a very well rounded tone are they 710's you have on the Sho-Pro,I have an original 705 on my Bennett. Looking forward to getting to grips with 80 XL.

Has anyone put up a video demoing a Roland 80XL with a Steel, loads of guitar demo's I aplogise if I have missed it if it has been done.Just purchased the amp and would love to hear a workout with it.

A player in the UK has just posted on facebook that he is taking delivery of a Bentley Steel guitar from the USA it will be the first in our country.It's new name to me has anyone got one or have pictures of this make.

I would say nearly all the (elder statesmen players)in the UK use the Day set up this is mainly due to the fact that when the first pedal steels came into the UK mainly ZB's they were set up by Gordon Huntley and as he played the Day set up thats the way he set them up to demo to prospective byers. ...

Sorry Tommy, the pictures were quite Blurred couldn't quite make out the name and took a guess should have known it would be a Sho-Pro..Hey never the less it sounded great.Would have loved to have been there. But giging myself.

I missed the C2C show at Londons O2 area only to find that Tommy came over with Vince Gill,from the distant pictures that were taken and posted on facebook looked liked he was playing a borrowed steel Single neck Mullen with Four floor pedals. But he sounded great on Look at us..

Being from the other side of the pond been very lucky to play behind :

B J Spears
Hank Thompson
David Houston
Billy Walker
Nat Stuckey
Tex Williams
Freddy Fender
Johnny Tillotson
Margo Smith
Vernon Oxford
Susan Raye

Wow did I really do all that. One lucky bloke.!!

Hi Jack,
Just tried the 442.5 tuning on the Williams and that works out fine as well,got a bit of cabinet drop on the E's with 440 across the board, but with 442.5 it holds up much better so may well stick with that.

Have just been listening to some great steel work on some Aaron Watson songs, who records with him ? I believe he's a Texas artist. So maybe not a Nashville session man.But whoever it is he's good.

Have been reading the posts on tuning with great interest.I have to say that I have three guitars and have always tuned them via the Jeff Newman chart, however my Williams D10 has never to my ear sounded totally in tune so I thought I would tune evrything to 440 now this goes against all my previous...

Dan Dugmore is playing some great stuff on the new Alan Jackson album 30 Miles West.A lot of simple single note work but very Tasteful.Would be good if one of you guys tabbed out a few, the solo on Talk is Cheap would be a good starter.

Great read but I have never seen Randle's set up published anywhere.

Did you see that !! he is human, he actually had to tune the guitar for a nano second.

Just love the low G# to E change at 2.12 on the second version, the very reason I put it on my guitar.

Looks like there's gonna be a few NV 112's on the market including mine if it's that good.Only seen demo's of Rock players slammin out Metal riffs out of it. Want to see how the amp handles a steel before I part with the hard earned.

I have been thinking about puting a 705/710 on my Williams it's pre 400 series,did you have alter the appature that the pick up goes into or did it just slot straight in.

I have three steels :- Bennett D10 8X7 Williams D10 8x5 Bennett SD10 4X6 Since I changed the p/u on the SD10 from a Wallace TT to BL 705 I can't stop using it.Such a change in tone.And it's got a set up with a mixture of Franklin and Tommy White's copedents.23 pulls on the E9,but it works real well ...

Hi Ken, I have three guitars and all are set up with different changes,have the standard levers ect, but have the extra levers different on every guitar.Do you do that or just rely on the sound of each guitar being different I would have thought there would be too many options with six guitars,or do...

A Wallace T/Tone wide mount for sale in the UK £60.

Have just put one in my Bennett SD10,sounds so rich,compared with the Tru-Tone that was in it. The TT just didn't suit the guitar.This 705 is a chrome one been laying about in a box brand new never used but at least five years old. Very impressed with the tone.

Just had a 705 fitted today it has the chrome casing,one of the older ones I think.Wow !! what a difference to the sound of my Bennett SD10.The True Tone just didn't sound right in the guitar.The clarity and the eveness of volume across all strings and the rich tone from the 705 is amazing. I can no...

For me Lloyd Mains on Joe Ely's Because of the Wind,ranks right up there.