Peter Siegel
From:
Belmont, CA, USA
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Posted 5 Mar 2003 3:30 pm |
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Bobby Snell,
Did Seymour, does Seymour make steel pickups?
I knew him back in the day and we used to talk about making steel pickups but we never did anything about it. What are they like?
-Peter |
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Bobby Snell
From:
Austin, Texas
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Posted 5 Mar 2003 4:54 pm
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No, they are "vintage Strat" pickups...I staggered them, at an angle, to get the poles under the 10 strings. As it is a "student" model steel, I didn't feel to bad about chopping it a little. Power chord tuning, played with a flatpick, rock all the way. Sounds great to me, but no commercial potential. I did a few recordings with this (...err, in the...80's..!!), they're somewhere around the house (Killing Floor, Kontact, the Speed L's, were the bands) and it was really good for power chords and leads that were distorted but not buzzy.
6-stringers have a wide variety of pickups for different tonalities. Steel pickups are designed for a relatively small variation on the accurate reproduction theme. And this makes it very hard (for me) to get a real rock tone.
But I mostly play in Honky Tonk bands now!:^)
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