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| Adam Troy |
Posted - 03/15/2010 : 6:52:00 PM
I know its a matter of turning the volume control at the right moment, but is there any video out there that actually shows the finer points? Or perhaps some of you players have some tips. |
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| markwitz |
Posted - 12/01/2011 : 4:31:33 PM
I remembered this thread when I saw this video. Jeff Au Hoy does the perfect violin at around 2:20. Wonderful steel guitar solo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGx7lRcRiGs |
| slipry1 |
Posted - 04/16/2010 : 4:10:12 PM
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Originally posted by Volcano
That's what I used to do with a Vibrolux and a Telecaster when I played country music in Nashville in the 70s. It worked great as long as the amp was in good shape. I did used to have to carry extra speakers on the road though.
Yep. One small slip on the volume pedal and the speakers are toast and everyone grabs their ears! The Peavy Session amps solved that problem - got a balanced sound - in the 80's. Ralph was playing a Session 400 when I talked with him. I still use my Vegas 400 (a twin version because I play both pedal steel and keyboards with country bands?) for country gigs. |
| Volcano |
Posted - 04/16/2010 : 09:55:41 AM
That's what I used to do with a Vibrolux and a Telecaster when I played country music in Nashville in the 70s. It worked great as long as the amp was in good shape. I did used to have to carry extra speakers on the road though. |
| slipry1 |
Posted - 04/16/2010 : 08:23:47 AM
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Originally posted by noeau
Everyone has different techniques. Very interesting. Jerry taught me to turn the volume full blast then set the amp. For wah wah or violin effect he would use the tone control.
Eh, Al! Good advice. Only problem is when I use my Boss Fender Deluxe Reverb Pedal as a direct box, then full volume overdrives it. Instead, I max out the volume on the Pedal. btw, in conversation long ago with Ralph Mooney (played on early Buck Owens records, then was with Waylon Jennings, the inventor of "West Coast Steel" (Sneaky Pete, Tom Brumley, J. D. Maness, Barbara Mandrell, etc.), wrote "Crazy Arms", etc.), I sked him what he played to get his sound. He said he played a Fender Twin Reverb. When I asked him about how he got his sound from that, he said "set all the knobs to 10 and use the volume pedal to control the output". Easier said than done, my friends. |
| rendesvous1840 |
Posted - 04/15/2010 : 5:05:49 PM
You sure that's not just dietary problems haunting your dreams? Like maybe Hoof-Hearted?
Unko Paul |
| hwnmusiclives |
Posted - 04/15/2010 : 09:00:35 AM
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Originally posted by slipry1
quote:
Originally posted by Volcano
Anyone ever use an E-Bow with compression and some creamy distortion? This really sounds like a violin, expecially with skillful use of a volume pedal
Gawd! An e-bow! I wonder where I stashed mine. I used it on my pedal steel back in the late 70's. I was playing in a band called Cowboy Fever, and I used it in conjuntion with a DynaComp and a flanger - spacey, eh?. Then I joined a band with a fiddler, and I quit using it. Since she was my wife, I listened when she told me that one fiddle was enough. I still used the flanger on my keyboard, and the e-bow went into the closet.
And the award for Best Use Of e-Bow EVER In A Hawaiian Recording goes to... [drum roll, please]
...Jules Ah See for "Kahuli Aku" on the Mahi Beamer album "Hawai'i's Own Mahi Beamer."
It haunts my dreams.
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| noeau |
Posted - 04/15/2010 : 08:26:59 AM
Everyone has different techniques. Very interesting. Jerry taught me to turn the volume full blast then set the amp. For wah wah or violin effect he would use the tone control. |
| Mark |
Posted - 04/14/2010 : 12:09:53 PM
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I can't remember who showed it to me, but a steel guy showed me a kid's battery powered car (about 2.5 inches long). He had wrapped a string around the powered wheel, and rozened the heck out of it. He would switch on the wheels and hold it against his high string... amazing!
And thereby re-inventing the hurdy gurdy!
That is so weird as to be wonderful. |
| Volcano |
Posted - 04/14/2010 : 11:55:39 AM
Now there's an original idea. Very cool. |
| Konabob |
Posted - 04/14/2010 : 10:48:51 AM
I can't remember who showed it to me, but a steel guy showed me a kid's battery powered car (about 2.5 inches long). He had wrapped a string around the powered wheel, and rozened the heck out of it. He would switch on the wheels and hold it against his high string... amazing! |
| slipry1 |
Posted - 04/14/2010 : 08:45:09 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Volcano
Anyone ever use an E-Bow with compression and some creamy distortion? This really sounds like a violin, expecially with skillful use of a volume pedal
Gawd! An e-bow! I wonder where I stashed mine. I used it on my pedal steel back in the late 70's. I was playing in a band called Cowboy Fever, and I used it in conjuntion with a DynaComp and a flanger - spacey, eh?. Then I joined a band with a fiddler, and I quit using it. Since she was my wife, I listened when she told me that one fiddle was enough. I still used the flanger on my keyboard, and the e-bow went into the closet. |
| Volcano |
Posted - 04/12/2010 : 09:57:43 AM
Anyone ever use an E-Bow with compression and some creamy distortion? This really sounds like a violin, expecially with skillful use of a volume pedal |
| slipry1 |
Posted - 04/12/2010 : 07:25:43 AM
Oh, yes it is! Also, you shouldn't start at zero volume, just low enough to get the "wa" effect. You should always roughly know where your volume knob is set, anyway, and not go above that. |
| Adam Troy |
Posted - 04/11/2010 : 12:19:05 PM
If anyone out there is trying to learn the violin effect, I have realized one of its subtleties. Where the melody under the effect is, say, two or three notes, there is a tendency to bring the volume up with each "bow" as the attack decays. Therefore it is advisable to have a visual mark on the volume knob that the player can quickly reference to cut back down to the original setting. Otherwise one risks accidental blasts of volume after the "violin" section is completed, thus ruining the performance.I am sure this is obvious to the initiated. |
| rendesvous1840 |
Posted - 03/31/2010 : 4:43:01 PM
"...the hairy eyeball."
That's almost like "stink-eye," ain't it?
Unko Paul |
