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Topic: Eharp player tries the Dobro/Resonator |
Mel Taylor
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Alabama, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2011 4:00 am |
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I posted this in the "Steel On the Web" section yesterday and thought I would post it here also. I bought a Johnson resonator about 7 years ago and it has mostly just sat so I thought I would give it a try. I put a Lace Sensor pickup on it to see what it would sound like and it sounds pretty good but it loses a lot of the resonator sound. Check out the utube video I have of The Great Speckled Bird and let me know what you think. The tuning is Open E.
Thanks,
Mel Taylor
Here is the link:
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 17 Jun 2011 6:42 am
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Nice job, Mel. What amp were you using? It sounded like you had a chorus of some sort going on as well. Those Lace pickups do "color" the sound of the instrument somewhat, but I find that the amp settings make a difference.
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Mel Taylor
From:
Alabama, USA
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Posted 17 Jun 2011 6:55 am
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Hi Brad, thanks for watching and for your comments. I am using a Peavey Transtube 212 EFX amp and yes I am using a little bit of chorus and just a little bit of reverb.
Mel |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 18 Jun 2011 8:55 am
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I enjoyed it. The chorus shows up more than the reverb. If you listen to the very last note, as it decays it sounds like there's some phazing too.
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Mel Taylor
From:
Alabama, USA
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Posted 18 Jun 2011 1:54 pm
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Hi Alan, thanks for your comments. I recently acquired this amp and I have got a lot to learn about it. After you commented about some phasing I took another look and now I'm really confused it seems I don't know what all I had going. I was trying to just use the knobs on the amp itself to get what I thought was just reverb and chorus and didn't pay any attention to the foot switch. The foot switch has 4 buttons on it: Button 1 on the far left is labeled Mode and EFX Select, button 2 moving right is labeled Preset 1 Channel, button 3 is labeled Preset 2 Modulation and button 4 is labeled Preset 3 Delay Reverb. Some of these was on so now I'm not sure what all I was using. At 69 years of age I don't think I'm savvy enough to figure all this technical stuff out.
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 18 Jun 2011 2:25 pm
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| Mel Taylor wrote: |
...At 69 years of age I don't think I'm savvy enough to figure all this technical stuff out.
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I'm coming up to 66 and I have the same problem. There are so many parameters to set nowadays. I have to confess that I still use reel-to-reel 8-channel for a lot of things, even though I have a 24-channel hard disc recorder which comes with a thick manual and a two-hour training DVD. I find the hard disk recorder extremely confusing.  |
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