I mentioned that I have a pedal steel. it's an old Sho-Bud 1974. it's all original; cigarette burns and all. I was told it's been back and forth bewteen Nashville and LA most of it's life.
I got it on Ebay from a shop in Texas. on rt. 66 no less.
this is one challenging instrument. been at for one and a half years. not fluid by any measure.
10 strings tuned E9.
it's alot about triads.. grabbing the right strings to make a chord.
the pedals and levers raise or lower notes to make new chods.
for example:
bar on the third fret is G (grabbing the right strings); when I depress the two pedals on the left I raise two strings and I now have C. bar stays put.
slide up two frets and I have D, cool
back on the third fret no pedals is G. when I depress the two pedals on the right I get an Am. same fret no pedals but a left knee lever shift I get Bm.
using all that I could play Wild Horses.
playing up on the tenth fret, I can play Heart of Gold.
I am definately at the rudimentary stage. but I can play pretty well all the early stuff heard on Gram Parsons, Neil Young etc.
just for fun I play the steel. all parts of it. think ambient jamming. with a delay pedal wow. the other day I had hat steel sounding like a synth when I had delay loops going and a stuttering delay running. pretty cool. keeps my off the street.
My hat's off to you pedallers! Thinking about the different triads on the same fret in those sixth and ninth chord tunings, and then changing them with pedals and levers, makes my head hurt!
:lol:
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
my head hurts too. it'll take me more than a lifetime to get as good as on my strat.
but oh what fun.
Yeah, I'll bet it is!
I've got an old Hammond organ, and I'm trying to get my head wrapped around playing different stuff with both hands. Haven't really tried getting the pedals into the mix. It is fun, though! I'm sure that pedal steel is, too!
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
Thanks for posting this information.
Is there anyway you can put up some sound samples of what that thing can do?
If it ain't true, it ain't blues.
sound samples. I wish. I dont have recording capacity yet. it sucks.
I do record on mini disc, but there isnt a way apparently to upload to digital on a computer.
my computer at home is old. Im saving for a new system as I do plan to record someday.
ah the someday.
There are pretty easy, and inexpensive, ways to get recordings into digital form, even ones starting from old fashioned cassette tape recordings. Unfortunately, I'm not the one to tell you how to do it. I have a very basic set up and have to re-learn the thing every time I use it.
(My first recording on the Soundclick site was actually made on a tape recorder checked out from the library. I mailed the cassette to a friend onthe other side of the country so he could digitize it for me. He e-mailed it back to me and I thought it was a miracle!)
I'm hoping someone hear has better, and more current, knowledge than I. I'd love to hear that thing.
If it ain't true, it ain't blues.
as long as your tape player or any other device has a analog output ( tape out, line out) you can hook it up to your sound card input ( not the mic input unless its a laptop) with the proper adapter. all you need is some software. I use MAGIX audio cleaner 2005 it costs $30 US and has lots of bells and whistles. you can download software called "Audio Tools" free for 15 days, then it costs $29 if you want to keep it. Both will convert wave files to mp3. I had a lot of cassette recordings i did on a cassette portastudio i needed to put on my hardrive, works well. you don't need alot of PC power, you should get by with maybe 350-400 mhz, 128 mem. 6-10 gigs hardrive.
thanks for the recording tips.
someone else told me that uploading from analog to didgital is done in real time.
so if I have four hours of recordings it would take four hours to upload.
hopefully, I'll have a real computer with enough RAM to do real recording programs.
thanks for the recording tips.
someone else told me that uploading from analog to didgital is done in real time.If you are recording from a tape deck or phonograph, you will have to record in real time :cry: Its not unlike we used to do with phonograph to tape deck back in the stone age :lol: :lol: :lol:
