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Topic: Question for the steel guitar builders out there |
Dale Gamble
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Montana, USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2013 8:57 pm |
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I'm just seeking some opinions or advice from you steel guitar builders out there concerning whether or not the use of a Seymour Duncan Phat Cat pickup is a good or bad idea. I'm considering putting a Phat Cat in one of the lap steels that I'm going to be making, but I can't recall ever seeing one used in a lap steel before. Has anybody out there ever tried one? If so, do I need to give special consideration to the pots I would use with it; that is, 250 vs. 500? If not, what is/are the problem(s) with a Phat Cat in a steel?
Thank you. |
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Dale Gamble
From:
Montana, USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2013 11:30 pm Follow-up
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| It never fails. Within minutes of posting this question, I was looking at the steels without pedals section of the forum and found a picture of an Asher lap steel with 2 Phat Cats in it. Sheesh!! They obviously work in a lap steel. I'd still welcome comments, however. |
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Daniel Policarpo
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Posted 5 Dec 2013 6:28 am
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I have not used the PhatCat, but I did successfully use an Artec Firebird style pickup in a junky lap steel, which sounded really good after the pickup install. It was a pretty hot pickup, don't remember the exact resistance, but it was up there, somewhere around 13 ohms or so.
Wired it with a 250 pot, then after the pot failed (it was old spare) I wired it direct to the output jack since I was using a volume/tone pedal anyway. Sounded even better. I bet the Phat Cat would sound great. |
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