Fat Steel Sound

[Terry Edwards]

Try this:

Record your steel track digitally.

Copy the original steel track to a new track.

Select (highlight) the new track and slide it in time about 100 ms or so to the right.

Pan one track full left and the other full right.

Give one track a different EQ treatment than the other.

Experiment and have fun! Try different amounts of delay on the second track.

I do this with acoustic guitar and I like it better than just using a doubler/delay effect. And if you don't have a delay effect this is an easy way to do it! You might try three tracks!

Big Fat Sound!!


Terry

[Bobby Lee]

I like mixing a compressed version of a track with the original, panned maybe 10 degrees apart. It really adds dimension.

[David L. Donald]

Check it in mono, and through different systems,
to see if you have phase distortion
or cancelation issues in the mix,
before release.

It is basically chorusing without the LFO time shift.

[Ben Slaughter]

Hadn't thought of that one Bobby, I'll have to try that.

I've been using 2 mics lately. A 57 up close on the amp, and a condensor about 5 or 6 feet back. Similar concept to Terry's trick, but captures a little different texture with the sound of the room. Mix and pan to taste.

[Ben Jones]

good ideas, I will have to try. anyone do any re-amping with steel?

[Bill Mayville]

Hope I answer this correctly.
When I want a fat sound ,and am using a DD-3, set at elevens,I switch to for instance,(3/96&5) then add the B pedal.you can take it from there.Can;t give away to many.OR
3/976 in and out with the B pedal.
The black jackson guitar is still going back and forth across the country.
I am switching to the Brown one. Picture at Bobbe's.
Bill

[Steve Stallings]

On this tune I used a profex 2 into a PX300. I mic'd it with a SM57 and ran the signal into a ADL600 tube pre. While my playing is not gonna win any awards, I think the tone is pretty good.

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Steve Stallings
The Songs