Part 3: PSG pickups for BMR + D130F

Tom Gorr · From: Three Hills, Alberta

To my pleasant surprise, discovered that the combination of my main six string guitar and the Bandmaster Reverb Ch1 and the D130F is one of the finest clean electric guitar rigs I have ever played through. T=5.5 .B=4.5 Brite On... Roll tone and vol controls on gtr to taste.

Dialing in my regular PSG on Ch2 is a bit more challenging, required a lot of finessed pot turns landing roughly at T=4.25 M=9.5 B=3.5. Brite either way sounds ok...just more air with it on. I don't believe I have reached its potential. Clean..clear and smooth but a little hollow... like the sound of the tinkle on a wine glass or glass bell.

My main steel is a lacquer Fessy with E66 pickups. The E66s have always worked better for me with speakers with thicker richer mids.

I haven't tried my 74 Shobud... but expect it would be naturally great with this rig because the SB pickup have always sounded fat and rich ...smooth top...with a hard pick attack in comparison to E66... thus countering the mid scoop of this tube amp and speaker combi.

This Fessy has sufficient fatness in its fundamental tone, but I need a different pickup voicing.

For those who play modern all pull steels through a Fender tube amp with a comparable speaker - what recommendations would you have for a modern pickup that brings fat rich and smooth?

Lane Gray · From: Topeka, KS

My Zum has a Truetone on the E9th and a Tonealigner on the C6th both sound excellent in my Twins and my Milkman
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2 pedal steels, a lapStrat, and an 8-string Dobro (and 3 ukes)
More amps than guitars, and not many effects

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