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Topic: Steel guitar and amp question |
Glen Derksen
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Alberta, Canada
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 9:48 pm |
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| I could be wrong about this, but it seems to me that the tones changed when we got into the 70's. Have the guitars changed, or did the tones change when steel guitar amps got manufactured? |
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2008 11:33 pm Re: Steel guitar and amp question
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| Glen Derksen wrote: |
| ...when we got into the 70's... |
.... you mean the 60's are over !?!?! |
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 10 Dec 2008 1:20 pm
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I think in general everything got louder, even country music. There were more drummers with full sets, and more loud electric bass, and more full backup in the arrangements. There was more and more rock influence.
Powerful, clean, solid-state amps came in voiced for steel, meaning less treble, more bass.
With volume up, and amps that could handle it, pickups were wound to higher impedances, with a darker sound.
To balance the added bottom from amps and pickups, the Emmons push/pull introduced bodies and designs that had more bite. And all of that together broadened the whole tone spectrum.
Just a few things I can think of. |
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Glen Derksen
From:
Alberta, Canada
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Posted 10 Dec 2008 7:09 pm
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| David Doggett wrote: |
I think in general everything got louder, even country music. There were more drummers with full sets, and more loud electric bass, and more full backup in the arrangements. There was more and more rock influence.
Powerful, clean, solid-state amps came in voiced for steel, meaning less treble, more bass.
With volume up, and amps that could handle it, pickups were wound to higher impedances, with a darker sound.
To balance the added bottom from amps and pickups, the Emmons push/pull introduced bodies and designs that had more bite. And all of that together broadened the whole tone spectrum.
Just a few things I can think of. |
That all seems to make sense. |
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