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Topic: Share Your sounds...Bells whistles etc., |
Billy Murdoch
From:
Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
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Posted 30 Nov 2009 5:54 am |
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Probably the most imitated sound on the steel guitar is a train whistle,there are various ways of doing this and it has been discussed before.
I am not sure if any other imitations have been posted in the past.
How do You guys do them.
What about a Police siren?Fire Truck etc.,
I do an 18 wheeler by holding the nose of the bar on the tenth string an picking strings ten and nine together and using the volume pedal zero to max and off again.
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Pit Lenz
From:
Cologne, Germany
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Posted 30 Nov 2009 10:00 am
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here is my imitation of a passing sportscar, recorded for a soundcollage about Germany.
This was part of a requested Kraftwerk-ish Autobahn illustration...
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Wayne Franco
From:
silverdale, WA. USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2009 11:15 am Pit
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That sounds so real I can't believe it.
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Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)
From:
Greenwell Springs, Louisiana (deceased)
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Posted 30 Nov 2009 1:28 pm
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Sometimes, whenever I wanted to "bug" the singer, I'd make a pretty convincing mosquito sound with a rapid but gentle bar bounce on the 3rd string near the string finger. I'd fade it in and out with both volume pedal and my G# to A pedal.
I've actually seen a couple of singers look around and swat at the air thinking something was flying around them. 
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2009 12:22 am
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Mr. Seymour does a good job on this stuff. I have a CD and vidio of him doing the auto and motorcycle [race and crash]. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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Micky Byrne
From:
United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 1 Dec 2009 2:35 am Re: Share Your sounds...Bells whistles etc.,
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Billy, I can emulate a racing car going through the gears same a Bobbe Seymour with my boss tone, using just the bar to up gear change and changing down etc.For a police car siren, again the boss tone on just a single string. I got my boss tone from Eric Snowball in Maidstone's "steel mill" in 1970 ...still works fine. Great for the rocky numbers, and also for "Orchestral" effects on slower songs, obviously thinking Cello or strings for the appropiate results,Plus killing the highs and adding more reverb for those purposes.
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Ben Elder
From:
La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2009 4:04 pm
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The only sound my psgs make is a trainwreck.
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Barry Hyman
From:
upstate New York, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2009 8:40 pm
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I can do "seagulls" on the thin strings. Not sure why...
I once played psg for a year in an 18-piece experimental band that had five trap sets, five horns, electric violin, synth, an insane vocalist (who is now a quite famous and successful jazz singer) and some other stuff I can't remember. (This would have been maybe 1974-5.) The "rules" were play as loud and as fast as you can, with no scale, no chords, no steady beat, and no tonic. "Free jazz" some people called it, although I called it "UFO Music." I got good at imitating the other instruments -- I could make it sound as if there were two electric violins, two insane vocalists, six horns, etc. My ears still hurt...
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Leslie Ehrlich
From:
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 1 Dec 2009 9:03 pm
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The only siren sounds I've ever heard coming from guitars were on two recordings:
'Lunatic Fringe', by the Canadian rock band Red Rider. Lead guitarist Ken Greer makes a European hi-lo horn siren sound with a pedal steel guitar.
'Breakin' The Law' by the British rock band Judas Priest. One of the guitarists (either Glenn Tipton or Ken Downing) yanks up and down on a Strat vibrato arm to simulate a North American electronic siren 'yelp'.
I've made race car sounds with steel on one of my recordings, but that's about it.
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Rick Barnhart
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2009 5:55 am
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Junior Brown does a nice police siren near the end of this clip. A real lesson in multi-tasking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRMNeoaosQw
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 2 Dec 2009 4:25 pm
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He also does a police siren at the start and end of the song "Highway Patrol".
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 2 Dec 2009 4:34 pm
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On Halloween night, I was behind the steel, and I did a few Halloween sounds with the steel,like a cat screech, ghost sounds, laugh sounds-the ghost sounds were done by puttin' the bar past the eighth fret-maybe the eleventh or twelfth fret and doin' a little vibrato while goin' down the frets while pickin' the fourth, fifth or sixth string. For a screaming sound, I go all the way to the pickup of the steel with the bar almost to the pickup, then sliding a little ways down the fretboard while pickin' the second string.
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David Griffin
From:
Jimmy Creek,Arkansas via Cowtown, USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2009 8:14 pm The Good,The Bad, &The Ugly
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Raise your 1st string & pick it once,then do a quick double hammer-on @ the 3rd fret then slowly release the pull. There you have it..the high part from the theme from the good,the bad,& the ugly!  Also you can get a pretty good cow sound on your bottom string using your VP.
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Terry Sneed
From:
Arkansas,
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Posted 5 Dec 2009 8:57 pm How is this one done?
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The spit n slide ? Bobbe Seymour does it on "Have I told you lately that I love you" on his Steel Guitar Favorites CD. It's about 255-256 in to the song. I'd like to learn that one. I made another thread about this, so maybe between the two, somebody will know how it's done.
Sounds like he does the spit, or 'Fitt' part by partially muting, then the 'tarn' by letting off a pedal or sliding. Kinda like Fitt-tarrn- Fitt-tarrn  Gene ONeal also done this on 'Bobbe Seymour' and Gene Oneal live VHS video. which I know some of you have watched.
BTW- I learned the drag race and siren from Frank Freinier. (sp) Thanks Frank.
terry
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