Pedal Steel through a Marshall stack?

Peter Siegel · Post by **Peter Siegel** » 4 Mar 2003 4:07 pm

Hi everyone.
Has anyone experimented with pedal steel through a Marshall stack? Anyone use one regularly? I have always thought it would be a great rock steel sound, and maybe even good for country if not turned up to the real distorted level. I've used the cabinets (4 x 12") before and found them very nice outdoors, where I find a closed back cabinet really helps. But I've never used the amps with the cabinets.
How does it sound?

-Peter

Bobby Snell · Post by **Bobby Snell** » 4 Mar 2003 5:59 pm

Marshalls w/Celestions have their own unique sound...I love a good crunch. They color the sound pretty early in the headroom curve, and may be a little too rough for many country tastes.

I have some Seymour Duncan pickups on an old Emmons GS-10 that went well through my Marshalls. I also had a ZB that sounded good in rock applications through that.

In high volumes, the usual steel pickup may have uncontrollable shrieking feedback problems. YMMV.

[This message was edited by Bobby Snell on 04 March 2003 at 05:59 PM.]

Al Miller · Post by **Al Miller** » 5 Mar 2003 4:42 am

WHAT DA?.......
Eddie Van Emmons ? well i never thought it would come to this

JUst kidding guys . heck if a Crate!! amp!! is where you get your sound I say plug it in ..
Boo

Jody Cameron · Post by **Jody Cameron** » 5 Mar 2003 8:36 am

Once, when touring with David Kersh in 1998, we did a week in Hawaii at a club in Honolulu. Believe it or not, in all of Hawaii, there was not a Session 400 or Nash. 400 or any other "steel" amp to be found! We had it in the contract rider to provide a Nash. 400 or "equivalent", but they could not find one, so I had to my choice of a '70's silver face Fender Twin with about half the tubes working, or a Marshall stack.

I switched off every night for 5 nights, and they both sounded like hammered crap. Couldn't get a decent sound out of either one! I'm all for thinking out of the box, but steel guitars require steel amps, IMHO.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 5 Mar 2003 12:10 pm

I've never liked the harmonic structure of the British tube sound very much. I prefer the way 6L6's "sing", especially for pedal steel.

I'm moving this topic to the 'Electronics' section of the Forum, where it belongs.

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