The Steel Guitar Forum

Anyone know how he got the "synth" sound on this song?

Not trying to speak for Paul, but during the Tillis era he extensively used a Korg X-91 quite a bit for different sonic textures. But with all of the different effects that everyone was using back then,(Boss CE-1 Chorus, Memory Man, Rat or Bosstones for fuzz distortion) it could be a number of things together or one thing alone(like a Rat pedal, Korg Synth, and Chorus?). I'd be interested in approaching the song today with a MIDI trigger into Pro Tools and the appropriate saw-wave type of synth plugin to achieve the Synth tone while playing it on steel.

Here's what you're talking about, Eddy. Buddy used one as well.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Korg-X- ... Swn-tZODnS

If you're looking to do something like that, look into the Sonuus G2M. You could connect to any synth,or with an interface and software, a computer. More stuff to carry around.

Thanks Jerry and Eddy! Maybe Paul will chime in later on too.