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Topic: what toys are on this steel ??? |
Philip Mitrakos
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The Beach South East Florida
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chris ivey
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california (deceased)
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Posted 24 Mar 2015 8:55 am |
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Hal Braun
From:
Eustis, Florida, USA
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Posted 24 Mar 2015 9:17 am
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http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22152-pedal-to-the-metal-a-short-history-of-the-pedal-steel-guitar?page=3
From Russ in the article..
“Ten or 15 years ago I decided I could not beat guys like Paul Franklin—he is the best at what he does,†says Pahl. “I needed to find something I was the best at. I realized guitar players don’t sound like Charlie Christian today because they’ve been changing their sound for the last 50 years. Pedal steel guitar hasn’t changed sonically since 1975—they still use the same big pickups through clean amps. I use a two-pickup guitar built by Sho-Pro with a Strat-style neck pickup and a Tele-style bridge pickup in the same position along the scale as a guitar. I treat pedal steel more like an electric guitar—more of a texture thing. I use tube saturation with lower-output pickups. That gives the distortion a more pleasing sound. It lets guitar pedals work like they were designed to work.â€
Sometimes Pahl treats the pedal steel as a kind of synthesizer. “You’re starting with essentially a sine wave,†he notes. “Then, if you run it through a Fuzz Face, you get a sawtooth wave. I use a wah pedal like a filter. When I run the neck pickup with the tone rolled off through the automatic swell setting on the Strymon Mobius and a pitch/vibrato I built, it sounds just like a Mellotron.†|
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Larry Carlson
From:
My Computer
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Posted 24 Mar 2015 10:24 am
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Thanks for posting that up.
That was interesting and fun to watch.
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I have stuff.
I try to make music with it.
Sometimes it works.
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Dustin Rhodes
From:
Owasso OK
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Posted 24 Mar 2015 11:47 am
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| Anyone know what his copedent is? |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 24 Mar 2015 3:18 pm
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| I'm hearing plain ol' E9th, with "A" pedal, "B" pedal, and the "E" lower. Simple stuff, really, but it's his imagination working here that makes it different. "Toys" are delay, fuzz, and 'verb. |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 24 Mar 2015 5:05 pm Russ Pahl setup
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| Drew Howard wrote: |
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< > 1 2 < >
F# +G#
D# +E
G# +A
E +F -Eb +F#
B +C#
G# +A
F#
E +F -Eb +F#
D
B +C# |
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Economical setup, makes sense to split the C pedal like the A.
The mirror image of the chart would work for Day pedals.
I like the Sneaky part of it, steel by Danelectro.
The future of pedal steel in the studio?
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Rick Abbott
From:
Indiana, USA
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Posted 24 Mar 2015 6:23 pm
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I'm in love!
A few years ago I started designing a pad that would select for several remote effects. He has gone to a very interesting level with the same idea.
Thanks for sharing this!!
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RICK ABBOTT
Sho~Bud D-10 Professional #7962
Remington T-8, Sehy #112
1975 Peavey Pacer |
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Roger Shackelton
From:
MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 24 Mar 2015 8:39 pm
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Russ Pahl, Mike Cass & myself used to hang out at The Steel Guitar Emporium on Saturdays in Mpls. in the 1970s. Clem Schmitz owned the Steel Guitar Emporium. 
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