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Topic: Looking For That Elusive Tone |
Jack Therrell
From:
Conroe, Texas, USA
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Posted 20 Jul 2005 6:10 am |
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| I started playing the steel in the late 50's. College and other things shortened my playing time, so I gave up the steel until about 2 years ago. I started playing or, or at least trying to, thinking that the steel would be popular now as it was back when I played before. First shock was finding that steels were not as easily found. Many stores, mostly musical stores used to carry steels. My first buy was a rickenbacher bought at a jewelry store. Now I find many young people will actually ask when seeing my steel,"what is that"? I began to question and wonder why has the steel dropped to such a predictament. Have we who love the instrument gone too far in trying to improve it. We have gadgets and such in our quest for the right tone that I think has hurt,muddied the water. When I previously played I had a d8 fender and a volume control. Now I can have the psg with enough additional equipment to fill a footlocker. The problem in the popularity of the steel has been hindered because we try too hard to duplicate something we have heard on a cd or seen at a concert. I think to promote our instrument maybe we should just concentrate on a good guitar, a good amp, and a volume control. Believe it or not I could even live and play without pedals & knees. Jack |
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Sonny Priddy
From:
Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 20 Jul 2005 7:51 am
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I'm With You Jack. Steel Guitar Vol. Pedal Amp The Real Steel Sound. SONNY.
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 20 Jul 2005 8:02 am
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| Why do you need a volume pedal? |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 20 Jul 2005 10:49 am
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| So the audience knows you're not just playing "slide guitar"! |
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John Daugherty
From:
Rolla, Missouri, USA
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Posted 21 Jul 2005 5:24 am
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Someone from the audience is still gonna say "you get a lot of sounds from that keyboard",or "what do you call that thing?".
I usually tell them it is an "epaleptic lap organ". |
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Billy Carr
From:
Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 21 Jul 2005 10:35 pm
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| PSG + AMP = What I like. The true or real tone and sound of a guitar. Either it's got it or it doesn't. Sometimes I use a little delay but really don't care for that. I always liked that pure steel sound that Jimmy Day got with his Sho-Bud's. |
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 21 Jul 2005 11:09 pm
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With only a volume pedal and my Randall amp which has a great EQ section, including tone control of the Accutronics 3-spring long decay reverb spring that I stuck in it, I have replaced a whole mess of gear with a small box and found the best tone of my life ever from the old Pro I.
Livin' the dream...dg |
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