The Steel Guitar Forum

Can some one tell me what is the best equipment to got a good strings effect My e-mail is bhr5@frontiernet.net

Thanks

You're going to get a lot of replies about using distortion boxes (with the hard to find Boss Tone being the most recommended). You play 2 strings in unison (alternating one then the other) but slightly out of tune so they start "beating", turn up the verb and turn down the treble. This gives the illusion of a strings sound.

I actually got tired of the adjustments I had to make every time I wanted to use the effect (a real pain in the butt if you wanted to use it and play steel sounds in the same song) and finally just bought a synthesizer. You can buy really decent sounding ones for strings and horn sounds at Circuit City, Best Buy, etc for only a few hundred bucks.

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Carter D10 9p/10k, NV400
<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Richard Sinkler on 08 May 2005 at 11:47 PM.]</p></FONT>

Electronic keyboards.

Thanks guys. I get the picture.