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Topic: Which Distortion Item for Steel? |
Sigi Meissner
From:
Duebendorf, Switzerland
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Posted 6 Aug 2005 9:34 am |
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As a standard guitar player I have many Distortion Items but nothing sounds really great. What is the one and only for steel?
I play the Emmons II with a Nash 400 |
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chas smith R.I.P.
From:
Encino, CA, USA
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Posted 6 Aug 2005 9:38 am
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| Radial Tonebone Classic. Or if you want to spend some money, THD BiValve. |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 6 Aug 2005 9:51 am
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| I use an Electro Harmonix Big Muff, but I have it on a loop with a 6 band equalizer, and I EQ the distortion (not the steel itself.) The unit doesn't sound all that great without the equalizer. It's the addition of the EQ that makes it sing. |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 6 Aug 2005 6:28 pm
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| Perlowin speaks the troooof!Butt.... Electro Harmonix also makes a "Graphic Fuzz" unit that is a bad boy basically a big muff with a graphic eq built into it.If you like a smoother distortion The Boss "Blues Driver is a good one,also the DOD "Flashback Fuzz"is a good fuzz at $39.00 you just can't beat it.Now for those of you who are going to say that none of those boxes sound any good on a steel guitar....It all depends!! |
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Steinar Gregertsen
From:
Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.
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Posted 6 Aug 2005 6:34 pm
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Fulltone Full-Drive2,- incredible dynamic response.
Steinar
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 6 Aug 2005 7:00 pm
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| Electro Harmonix also makes a "Graphic Fuzz" unit that is a bad boy basically a big muff with a graphic eq built into it. |
I didn't know that. Thanks for mentioning it. |
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Ted Solesky
From:
Mineral Wells, Texas, USA
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Posted 6 Aug 2005 8:06 pm
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| I'm still using an old little plastic Boss Tone that I bought back in the 70's. That unit is touchy. It took me a while to get used to the attack it requires. I worked in a band where the club was very dark. A guitar player walked with another musician and said, 'listen to that wild guitar'. He said he got confused when he was watching the guitar player and all he was doing was rhythm. He approached me and told me my fuzz really cut thru and thought it was the guitar player. 1 1/2 yrs ago, I sat in with the 'New Group Lynyrd Skynyrd' band. They had 3 guitar players. When I did my ride in 'Call me the Breeze', they all walked over to my steel to watch and one of them yelled, 'great patch'.? After that,they made me sit in everytime we opened for them. |
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Frank Parish
From:
Nashville,Tn. USA
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Posted 6 Aug 2005 9:30 pm
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| I'm using a Steel Driver III with one of those orange Boss fuzzes. I can go from one to the other and vary the tone between the two. |
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John Steele (deceased)
From:
Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 7 Aug 2005 12:15 am
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Funny how things change.
Although I rarely if ever use a distortion pedal, the overwhelming response to this same question 4 years ago was....
The Rat.
-John
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