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Topic: Ralph Mooney tone change |
Fred Bova
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Connecticut, USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2006 8:09 pm |
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Hi, I just found the CD of "Corn Pickin and Slick Slidin". I had the LP years ago. I've been playing it non stop in the car. Great old style stereo spred, Ralph Mooney and James Burton on the Left, and the Backing tracks on the Right. Great for listening and practicing. Mooney blows my mind of course, but I do have a question or two about his sound. I know his steel had only one pickup, and I know that where and how you play with your Right hand makes a difference in tone and timbre , but on one of the tracks ( #1, or # 2 ?) in his solo, he starts with a very, very bright picking sound and then you hear him get louder and his sound gets nice and full. Is this all in his hands or did he use a Volume/Tone pedal like the old fender, and D'armond units ?
Oh, is there any Transcription and or TAB of "TEXAS WALTZ" out there ?
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Dean Parks
From:
Sherman Oaks, California, USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2006 9:15 pm
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The Fender 1000 on that album does have a volume and tone control, like a guitar. Could that be it?
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Clyde Mattocks
From:
Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2006 9:26 pm
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The Texas Waltz is one of my favorite Moon
tunes. I always kind of assumed he played the verse part with his neck selector in the middle, thinning the tone. Then, for the
bridge part, flip it to the one neck, which
instanly fattens the tone. That's the way I do it, plus moving my picking hand.
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Jim Sliff
From:
Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 25 Sep 2006 5:13 am
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That's the great thing about actually having tone/volume controls ON your guitar - they can make a world of difference, giving you a wide range of sounds instantly. I'm guessing it was a combination of the switch, hand and some tone control rolloff - all of which can be done in a fraction of a second.
That's what 6-string players do to change sounds. Most steels are very limited - single pickups, and often no tone or volume controls at all - and a floor pedal does NOT do the same thing. |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 25 Sep 2006 7:15 am
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That's why I use my Goodrich Matchbox all the time. It's the small one with only a tone control on the top. It clips to the leg of your steel. I always set mine to about 2 o'clock and then set my amp for the usual E9th sounds, then when I want a much brighter "Mooney" sound I just rotate the control to the right and it's there.......JH in Va.
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Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!!
[This message was edited by Jerry Hayes on 25 September 2006 at 08:15 AM.] |
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John Daugherty
From:
Rolla, Missouri, USA
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Posted 25 Sep 2006 7:30 am
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Knowing Ralph, I rather doubt that he changed anything while playing. It is possible that the tone change was done during mixdown by the recording engineer.
Sometimes a portion of a track is re-recorded and pasted or punched in. That could also account for a different sound.
I don't have any hard facts about that particular recording, but my "GUESS" is that the tone change happened during editing and mixing.
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Michael Haselman
From:
St. Paul
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Posted 25 Sep 2006 9:25 am
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When I try to get a Mooney-like tone, I pick right in front of the pickup. For most stuff though, I pick a couple inches up the neck from the pickup for a fuller tone. Sometimes I find myself moving quite a bit for different tones.
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Marrs D-10, Webb 6-14E, Peavey NV112, Hilton volume.
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