Can we sound like a dobro too?
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- Matt Martin
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Can we sound like a dobro too?
I was just wondering if there was an electronic device, of sorts, to get a dobro sound. Maybe an inexpensive pedal or something?? Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks...Mr. Eightstack
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- Allan Todd
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I saw gerry hogan recently with Albert Lee and he got a very realistic dobro sound from his steel,after the show I asked how he did it and he handed me a solid rubber bar!I have since experimented with various materials (wood/plastic/etc.)and I am getting pretty close to the dobro sound.
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Peavey ProFex II,program # 113,("Dobro?") + 127 other steel programs. What more could you ask for?
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There have been several dobro "simulators" on the market. Zumsteel marketed one for a short time. Bobbe Seymour has one that according to reports on the forum is doing well. Goodrich has had the "MatchBro" series of units out for quite a while (the original unit was designed by Buddy Emmons). Goodrich had discontinued the MatchBro line but has recently reintroduced a new model.
I've been using one of the original model MatchBro's since it first came out and have done several recording sessions using it and have even fooled Bluegrass pickers who thought it was a real dobro.
Marrs had a "cat can" model at one time but it was a separate lap steel type guitar, not an electronic simulator.
I've been using one of the original model MatchBro's since it first came out and have done several recording sessions using it and have even fooled Bluegrass pickers who thought it was a real dobro.
Marrs had a "cat can" model at one time but it was a separate lap steel type guitar, not an electronic simulator.
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Dobro on steel sounds like OLD time dobro - Brother Oswald stuff, with tremolo. No way you can duplicate the hammers and pulloffs of bluegrass dobro on steel - the right combinations aren't there, and you'd have to use a bar with sharp edges.
Tonally you can do it - stylistically, it's limited. IMO if you want a Dobro sound...buy a Dobro.
Jim Sliff, '76 OMI Custom Mahogany Dobro, Lap Dawg bar.
Tonally you can do it - stylistically, it's limited. IMO if you want a Dobro sound...buy a Dobro.
Jim Sliff, '76 OMI Custom Mahogany Dobro, Lap Dawg bar.
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Can anyone tell my why these manufacturers of Dobro simulators didn't have their plastic bars made like the Stevens bar? Seems like a reasonable thing to do.
I have a pedal and knee lever that puts strings 3 thru 8 on my C6th into a G tuning like a Dobro (see my copedant in the C6 copedent thread). Used to have a Match-Bro but had to sell it. I will probably buy one of Bobbe's pretty soon.
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I have a pedal and knee lever that puts strings 3 thru 8 on my C6th into a G tuning like a Dobro (see my copedant in the C6 copedent thread). Used to have a Match-Bro but had to sell it. I will probably buy one of Bobbe's pretty soon.
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