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 Topic: Tone X Pedal |
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| David Mason Replies: 39 Views: 14138 |
 Forum Section: Electronics Posted: 29 Aug 2023 1:20 pm Subject: Tone X Pedal |
| Play through hundreds of amps, cabs, pedals and full rigs!
I'd love to! Meanwhile, I'll play through this little black thing... Ahem. There have been some really fine tonalistically-zippy ... |
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| Topic: a totally-re-blown mind - WHO is the steel? |
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| David Mason Replies: 7 Views: 2174 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 26 Sep 2021 1:25 am Subject: a totally-re-blown mind - WHO is the steel? |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvFsr8p5dY8
Gag me with a front-end loader, Yoder, I just plain fergit to bitch about how there's no good music been played since 1977, grumble, drool, thud. WHO is ... |
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| Topic: Lap Steel With A Blues Legend |
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| David Mason Replies: 8 Views: 2861 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 26 Jul 2021 9:34 pm Subject: Lap Steel With A Blues Legend |
| http://tela.sugarmegs.org/alpha/b.html
Just for because, I'm linking to sugarmegs.org.. select the "B's" (yep that's how they doot) which have several of his concerts. I'm Listening to a ... |
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| Topic: *Gold Tone 12 string MandoGuitar* Sold |
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| David Mason Replies: 6 Views: 8282 |
Forum Section: For Sale: Other Instruments Posted: 4 May 2021 1:00 pm Subject: *Gold Tone 12 string MandoGuitar* Sold |
| I'll mention: 15" scale length. I'm WAY O.D.'d on instruments these days, hard to even find the door around here, but these are a mighty spiffola li'l number. | |
| Topic: 82 sets of steel guitar strings for $60 |
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| David Mason Replies: 5 Views: 2733 |
Forum Section: For Sale: Amps and Accessories Posted: 4 May 2021 12:45 pm Subject: 82 sets of steel guitar strings for $60 |
| I cannot tell a lie - I am an idiot? MeMeMeMe if plz can be! | |
| Topic: Solution for speeding drummer! |
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| David Mason Replies: 34 Views: 8481 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 4 May 2021 9:21 am Subject: Solution for speeding drummer! |
| What I find to be the mongo-funnest/saddest/sigh-y aspect is, if you've got decent musicians, all you need is to have the click AVAILABLE! You don't have to turn it on, lo-and-behold just the threat o ... | |
| Topic: What would be the best G Tuning for a 12 string non pedal |
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| David Mason Replies: 18 Views: 2811 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 4 May 2021 7:29 am Subject: What would be the best G Tuning for a 12 string non pedal |
| STRING GAUGES:
https://www.b0b.com/infoedu/gauges.htm I would start out ditto'ing up on the ideas of Mr. Hatcher (and others), that is keep your exact preferred tuning with it's inner intervals in ... |
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| Topic: 10 and 12 string owners, hard to go back and forth? |
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| David Mason Replies: 14 Views: 2102 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 14 Apr 2021 11:56 pm Subject: 10 and 12 string owners, hard to go back and forth? |
| I actually use the twelve string bridge and nut on my MSA SuperSlide, but with the 1 and 12 slots empty - and 10 strings on it, because then it matches the spacing on my PedalMaster non-pedal* D10 con ... | |
| Topic: 40's Chase Tone Bar |
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| David Mason Replies: 3 Views: 1561 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 26 Mar 2021 10:10 am Subject: 40's Chase Tone Bar |
| There's at least three people who had made and/or still make modern ones, I think they're all in this post somewhere?
https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=367468&sid=5fcbcec0788cdc40 ... |
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| Topic: Neutropathy |
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| David Mason Replies: 5 Views: 2151 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 22 Mar 2021 10:49 pm Subject: Neutropathy |
| Try as best you can to determine which nerves are doing what, where, and when. Besides the peripheral deathiness, I have nerves that get pinched in my neck and “thoracic outlet†that then ... | |
| Topic: My Most Valuable Lap Steel. Please Share Yours |
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| David Mason Replies: 346 Views: 177836 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 22 Mar 2021 5:57 pm Subject: My Most Valuable Lap Steel. Please Share Yours |
| Call me an ol' stick-in-the-mud, but Mr. VunCannon: that Harmos is just NOT cuddly. | |
| Topic: I have a 1954 three neck Fender console and need wiring info |
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| David Mason Replies: 10 Views: 2311 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 21 Jan 2021 3:35 pm Subject: I have a 1954 three neck Fender console and need wiring info |
| You can hold another electric guitar RIGHT OVER a stationary guitar pickup and strum it hard? Electric razors, drills, telephones.... | |
| Topic: What tuning for 10 string? |
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| David Mason Replies: 17 Views: 4470 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 21 Jan 2021 2:50 pm Subject: What tuning for 10 string? |
| If he's asking this question, he is not going to much enjoy the re-entrant stuff, and I also don't think he's going to get much whoopee out of a lot of closed intervals. A steel guitarist might look a ... | |
| Topic: Tone Bar, Copper-Tellurium Alloy |
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| David Mason Replies: 10 Views: 5984 |
Forum Section: Pedal Steel Posted: 21 May 2020 10:09 am Subject: Tone Bar, Copper-Tellurium Alloy |
| I have put quite rounded tips and butt ends on the RR's, and rounded the butt end of an SP-1 to the point it's reversible, if so desired. The projecting tip of the SP-1 feels weird to me, I want my fi ... | |
| Topic: Pedal Steel Workstand back in stock! |
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| David Mason Replies: 17 Views: 5031 |
Forum Section: For Sale: Amps and Accessories Posted: 22 Feb 2020 8:13 am Subject: Pedal Steel Workstand back in stock! |
| Humdinger! I've had guitars that chased off a woman - never a girl that scared off guitars. I dunno - maybe they were leaving anyway - last one was squawkin' off for a good long while, but it was kind ... | |
| Topic: String guages for lap steel in general |
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| David Mason Replies: 7 Views: 5336 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 22 Feb 2020 4:30 am Subject: String guages for lap steel in general |
| There has been some pretty serious evidence kick in that heavy-gauge strings actually sustain less - as a function of volume. Big strings give you more initial volume - but then, so can those little r ... | |
| Topic: We maybe done for Boys! |
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| David Mason Replies: 84 Views: 20737 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 6 Jul 2019 5:20 pm Subject: We maybe done for Boys! |
| Well, I do feel sorry for all you aspiring pros who have been sitting staring at your phone, willing it to ring with a call from the Bigshot Producer who absolutely needs your style and only yours wil ... | |
| Topic: Tonebar - Lift or slide to new position? AND lazy blocking? |
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| David Mason Replies: 17 Views: 3822 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 22 Jun 2019 9:31 am Subject: Tonebar - Lift or slide to new position? AND lazy blocking? |
| And you sure as heck don't need any kind of special bar!
Whoah! Now thet's some scary talk, there. You don't mean, like... I should stop looking?!?  |
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| Topic: Is Steel Guitar Fading Away? |
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| David Mason Replies: 222 Views: 57445 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 17 Jun 2019 1:13 am Subject: Is Steel Guitar Fading Away? |
| I know a lot of young people that are this way exactly.. Always broke, but blowing money on $5 coffee, $5 "energy drinks" several times a day, fast food daily,
Back when I began to rejoin t ... |
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| Topic: Gibson ES 335 question? |
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| David Mason Replies: 17 Views: 6326 |
Forum Section: For Sale: Other Instruments Posted: 30 May 2019 9:49 am Subject: Gibson ES 335 question? |
| Ebay is down in volume now that Reverb's rolling, but you can look at "completed sales" and "sold" by scrolling down the little listings on the left side. | |
| Topic: Looking for lap steel |
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| David Mason Replies: 12 Views: 3838 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 30 May 2019 5:25 am Subject: Looking for lap steel |
| I prefer a console type. FWIW, that seems to add an automatic $150, $200 to the price, which will buy an awful lot of steel-stands of the $10 walker and ironing board "Salvation Army" brand ... | |
| Topic: Too many steels. Thinning the herd. Dragon Star Guitar |
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| David Mason Replies: 26 Views: 11795 |
Forum Section: For Sale: Steel Guitars Posted: 30 May 2019 2:18 am Subject: Too many steels. Thinning the herd. Dragon Star Guitar |
| bring the Dragon out to play... Like Magic Puff and Jackie Paper.
I'm really glad you said that, because I wanted to ask something but I was worried it sounded kinda... ETHNIC or something... ... |
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| Topic: Building a lap steel |
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| David Mason Replies: 2 Views: 1160 |
Forum Section: Steel Without Pedals Posted: 30 May 2019 1:09 am Subject: Building a lap steel |
| I'm not sure of exact dimensions, but you may like this place: how to build lap steels:
http://steelguitarbuilder.com/forum/index.php And this one, how to build everything else: https://www.mimf. ... |
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| Topic: Maurice Anderson - Statement on Universals |
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| David Mason Replies: 39 Views: 9484 |
Forum Section: Steel Players Posted: 21 Apr 2019 4:42 pm Subject: Maurice Anderson - Statement on Universals |
| The more I learn, the less I know, but... it seems to me that the early years of country music specifically on AM "hit" radio - meaning, roughly 1955 - 1968 (I'm willfully trying to exclude ... | |
| Topic: FOR SALE: Little Walter Tube Amp |
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| David Mason Replies: 9 Views: 4104 |
Forum Section: For Sale: Amps and Accessories Posted: 12 Apr 2019 11:23 pm Subject: FOR SALE: Little Walter Tube Amp |
| You know, unless you're like dying for the money, there are a number of ways you can set up a"pre-amp"-->Walter rig, keep the thing for growing into. Stuff like that, if you do end up con ... | |
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