Reasonable dobro sound from a psg
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- Colin Goss
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Reasonable dobro sound from a psg
I have had a request to provide a reasonable dobro sound from the psg, or learn to play dobro. I think I perfer the first option. I havre a profex II, but the two dobro sounds thereon (via Jeffs card) are not right. Has anyone achieved this, if so, what are the settings, and what is the technique to play - chords, single notes, runs etc.
Colin, I'm getting a close dobro sound from my Sho-Bud Super Pro by using a Zum simulator pick-up mounted about 1 & 3/4-inch in front of the Sho-Bud pick-up. It runs to a switch box that switches "off" the Sho-Bud pick-ups and "on" the Zum. Then the signal goes to my Pro-Fex with a dobro program. I only found one good dobro sound "DOBRO TOO". Only trouble is, Zum stopped making the pick-ups. Maybe Bill Lawrence has something similar?
Good luck, Tom
Good luck, Tom
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I think a lot of it is in the hands. Take your foot off the volume pedal. Pick harder. Use a dead bar (glass or polished wood). Think dobro licks.
There have been times when I got a perfect dobro sound without even touching my amp. Gadgets can help, I guess, but the real key is in your approach to the instrument.
There have been times when I got a perfect dobro sound without even touching my amp. Gadgets can help, I guess, but the real key is in your approach to the instrument.
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The Match-Bro (with it's special bar) sounds pretty realistic. THINK resophonic, and play simple, single-string stuff. The approach to playing is very important, along with a more "aggressive" use of your picks.
While experimenting with the Match-Bro, get a square-neck resophonic, and start learning how to play it. Don't tune it to E....Tune it to G or G6th. You'll be more marketable as a player, and will enjoy the "freedom" it gives you compared to the psg. I found it helped my psg playing as well.
While experimenting with the Match-Bro, get a square-neck resophonic, and start learning how to play it. Don't tune it to E....Tune it to G or G6th. You'll be more marketable as a player, and will enjoy the "freedom" it gives you compared to the psg. I found it helped my psg playing as well.
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I'd have to agree with Bobby lee I'm just starting out on psg but I've been playing a dobro scince 5 years old. it seems like my biggest problem is having my msa not sound like a dobro.it's in the playing style. I use a "line 6 computer model"amp.with a little tweakage it sounds exactly
like my national.
like my national.
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I find that when I use my Zumm Dobro simulator pickup that I need to "scoop out" some of the mid frequencies on either my amp or my effects processor to get that real Dobro sound. Also, I stay away from the higher strings and stay in the middle and low registers to get a "thicker" sound like you would from a wood Dobro. Hope this helps a little. Scott
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Hi Jim !
Don't know if you remember meeting me briefly at Big Balls in Cowtown in Fort Worth last year, but anyhow, it was a pleasure. (nice town, btw!)
The "tone" and "timbre" controls, I've messed alot with mine and end up setting them on 3 and 3 1/2 respectively. I'm sure different pickups, etc., make a difference.
-John
Don't know if you remember meeting me briefly at Big Balls in Cowtown in Fort Worth last year, but anyhow, it was a pleasure. (nice town, btw!)
The "tone" and "timbre" controls, I've messed alot with mine and end up setting them on 3 and 3 1/2 respectively. I'm sure different pickups, etc., make a difference.
-John
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The settings I use (or at least the initial setting point) with my Matchbro is to have the left knob pointing to the upper left corner (approx 10 O'clock) and the right hand knob pointing to the upper right corner (approx 2 O'clock). That seems to be a good setting for mine, which is one of the older (original) models with the bypass tone control.
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