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Topic: Eric heywood question. Please look him up |
Scott McRee
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Posted 16 Jan 2016 5:16 pm |
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Can someone pleaseeeee get me more information on Eric heywood's setup. He plays with Ray lamontagne and son volt and tift Merritt etc. y'all can look him up if you don't know and atleast give opinions. I'm wanting know his copedant, what effects he uses and how much of each it sounds like he's using. Also, techniques, any special licks that he uses frequently. Any nuances or little things he does repetitively etc. In my opinion he has the best tone of any steel sound I've ever heard. It doesn't sound too complex what he's doing either. Also, does it sound like his treble is turned down or mids? Just any information or opinions. Thanks a lot.
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Jeff Garden
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Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 18 Jan 2016 8:44 am
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| Scott, IMHO, most of a player's sound is in the player and his technique, not in the tuning, the guitar, the setup, the pickup, or any other "thing". I listened to his stuff on YouTube (about an hours worth) with various artists, and you're right...it is all pretty simple. The tone is quite ordinary - usually mellow, and most of the time he doesn't use much EFX. He also plays a lot away from the pickup (for an even mellower sound). In addition, he uses the volume pedal a lot, and mutes the pick attack for special sounds that are more horn or violin-like. |
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Scott McRee
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Georgia, USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2016 9:35 am Thank you
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Yes I agree with you for sure. I know he has a little reverb and delay on there but not sure how much. Also, can you type in Ray lamontagne empty, on YouTube and there will be a video of him playing in a blue room. I think it's an old Church. It should be the first video that pops up or one of the first and watch that video. You'll see Eric playing. Is that a matchbox on the side of his guitar? Also, any hours about him playing there would be great. Thanks a lot guys
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Paul Stauskas
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DFW, TX
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Posted 18 Jan 2016 11:14 am
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I saw him with a deluxe reverb and an Earth Drive pedal recently in LA
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Tucker Jackson
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2016 11:21 am
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| He used to play through a Vox AC-30 with enough gain to get a little hair. Sometimes, a lot of hair. The Vox has an interesting voicing you don't normlly hear with steel guitar. IMHO, that amp and way he uses it is a big part of the Eric sound on some of those older records. |
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Nathan Golub
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Durham, NC
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Posted 18 Jan 2016 1:08 pm
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I love cool old tube amps, like a little late-'30s/early-'40s Kalamazoo or a Supro Thunderbolt type with the original 15-inch Jensen speaker. I used an early-'60s Vox AC 50 head with a 2-12 cabinet for all the Son Volt stuff -- the original cabinet had the Allman Brothers stencil on it.
From this article: http://nodepression.com/article/eric-heywood-trace-elements |
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Scott McRee
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Georgia, USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2016 2:13 pm Awesome stuff guys
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| Keep it coming please. I'm really appreciating all of the help and knowledge y'all are finding about one of my favorite steel players |
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Scott McRee
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Georgia, USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2016 4:42 pm Volume pedal
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| Anyone know what volume pedal he uses based off some of the videos online?? |
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Ian Worley
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Sacramento, CA
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Posted 18 Jan 2016 5:52 pm
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| you could always try this: https://www.google.com/#q=eric+heywood+equipment and other variants thereto, it's just like magic! You might deduce that his sound is not in a specific and static set of equipment, but as Donny says, in his head and hands |
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 19 Jan 2016 4:56 am
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One of my favorite albums is Richard Buckner's Since, and Eric plays some wonderful stuff on that record, including a couple of really unique solos. On one of the solos, he played through a Smokey amp, which is essentially an amp inside of a cigarette pack. I think the solo was on Believer.
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 19 Jan 2016 7:50 am
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I saw him in the early 90s playing with Joe Henry, who was opening up for Uncle Tupelo in a small club - pre Son Volt, obviously. He was definitely using that Vox AC-50 - it was pretty gnarly-sounding in comparison to your typical shimmering pedal steel sound, but cool nonetheless.
I realize a lot is in the head and hands. But IMHO you will not get the sound of a cranked-up old tube Vox guitar amp like an AC-15/30/50 out of a solid-state Peavey pedal steel amp. I don't care what pedal or whatever you stick in front of it, in it, or whatever you want to do to it. That's not a bad thing - there are different cool sounds and different ways to get them. I love my Session 400, and I love my old tube amps - the right tool for the job often depends on the job. |
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Scott McRee
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Georgia, USA
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Posted 19 Jan 2016 10:05 am Agreed
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| Yea I totally get what you're saying. I don't use solid state amps for that exact reason. It's just too sterile for my taste. |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 19 Jan 2016 6:55 pm
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Yeah, Scott - I love my old tube amps too, and I have a pile of different ones for different sounds, including several 50s tweed Fenders, blackface/silverface Fenders, an old Magnatone, old Gibsons, Ampegs, a couple of old Supro Thunderbolts, and other assorted ones.
But don't discount the beautiful, pure, clean sound of a great old Peavey pedal steel amp. Totally different bag - try it, you might like it. My main "clean" pedal steel amp is a 1976 Peavey Session 400 cut down 3" vertically to perfectly fit a 12" 4-Ohm Telonics neodymium pedal steel speaker. It's magic for clean stuff, and amazing for clean jazz guitar, or acoustic guitar with a piezo pickup. And it weighs about as much as a Deluxe Reverb.
The thing about a clean amp like this is that it exposes your playing for its nekkid self. I'm gonna go out on a limb and agree with Ivey that if you can't make a pedal steel sound good through one of the standard Peavey pedal steel amps (take your choice), then you need to work on your hands. "You" is editorial "you", but that is my opinion. |
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Dylan Schorer
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Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Posted 20 Jan 2016 8:27 am
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| Eric's steel is interesting. It's an 11-string Williams. I'm pretty sure it's standard E9 tuning with low-E on the additional bottom string. |
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Robert Daniels
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Posted 20 Jan 2016 9:11 pm
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I just saw him here in Chicago with Jay Farrar playing the trace album. It was deluxe reverb and a bunch of pedals including the Sarno earth drive. The earth drive is the only overdrive I have used yet if that works well on steel but that's j ust me.
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Chris Walke
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St Charles, IL
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Posted 21 Jan 2016 7:13 am
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| Robert Daniels wrote: |
| I just saw him here in Chicago with Jay Farrar playing the trace album. |
Ah crap, how'd I miss that??? |
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Jamie Mitchell
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Nashville, TN
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Posted 21 Jan 2016 11:48 am
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| Mike Neer wrote: |
| One of my favorite albums is Richard Buckner's Since |
listened through that a few times yesterday/today, great record! thanks for heads up
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