Guitar Pedals For Pedal Steel With Tim Marcus (Milkman Sound)
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Pedal Steel is most known for country music, but today we're gonna explore how versatile it can be. I've invited my friend Tim Marcus creator of Milkman Sound to demonstrate how adding guitar pedals to the Pedal Steel can transform the instrument.
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3:36 Milkman The Amp 50-Watt Hybrid Guitar Amp Head Pedal
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3:38 Ibanez AD99 Analog Delay
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3:48 JHS Unicorn V2
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8:16 Electro-Harmonix MEL9 Tape Replay Machine
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8:26 JHS Lucky Cat Delay
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I have to admit, the Metal Zone sounds great on a Pedal Steel.
Guess he put his pedal *through* the metal, huh.
Tim mentioned Sneaky Pete. Check out his work with the Flying Burrito Brothers (especially Gilded Palace of Sin). Not only is his playing superb, but he uses some great effects including some gnarly fuzz. "Christine's Tune" and "Wheels" immediately come to mind if you want shortcuts to the effects, but really I'd recommend getting the album. The cover is phenomenal as well. Cheers!
Link to the album on YT: ruclips.net/video/P7_3ak3OmkM/видео.html
The solo,by Sneaky pete on Jackson Brownes version of "Take it easy" is mind bending w/ phaser...
Burrito brothers essentially used Sneaky Pete’s playing as the lead guitar.
1) It's nice to see someone using a Metal Zone non-ironically. 2) Anderson Ericson whole milk kicks ass!
To be kind - era swans has a lot of really great atmospheric pedal steel parts on them. That's where I first learned about the instrument tbh
Gotta admit- I saw the video title and thought, "This is gonna be lame". I was sooooooo wrong! Love this stuff. I never ever considered that steel guitar could be this cool. Thanks for expanding my mind a bit.
Thanks for watching!!!
Same thought process here Ted.
check out a band called "pink floyd"
Alright - here is a fun story. in Spring 2003 I was a music intern for SNL and helped the music coordinator manage the Dixie Chicks rehearsal and live process. Basically I was the kid that got all the backing musicians lunch and made sure they had their paperwork filled out. I was a loud brash guitar player more familiar with punk, classic rock and metal and really wasn't into country so I wasn't even paying attention to the slide guitar until the first rehearsal and Lloyd maines steps on what I discovered was a SANSAMP GT on the floor and produced this GOD-Like overdriven sound. it was like the sound of a giant semi-truck downshifting and passing at the same time - so deep and guttural. It changed my life because it was that sound that carried me into pedal distortion and overdrive - where previously I just played amp distortion. here is video of another time they played Sin Wagon on that same tour - which is the song he did this trick on. ruclips.net/video/qLLg14q27vI/видео.html
Josh just drinking a half gallon of chocolate milk.
Milkman, baby!
yum
haha!
Zappa-One Shot Deal. Thanks for reminding me of that, I haven’t heard it for 30 years!
think hes talking about "It might be a one shot deal" on Waka/Jawaka. Such an amazing solo. Took me awhile to figure out I coudn't play it on a guitar
Garcia is my favorite steel player. His work on American Beauty, Workingman’s Dead, NRPS, and Teach Your Children, The Wheel (Garcia solo) are amazing. I like it with really deep Fender Twin reverb and some echo/delay.
I used to be a king, laughing, eep hour etc
If you like the instrument keep diving.. even Jerry would have NEVER said he was a real steel player.. I mean he was jerry so he was musical on EVERYTHING but... wow.. if you like his playing keep looking as Jerry's playing was great but with a very basic vocab.. but great.
Tim Marcus is so awesome. Submitted a question to the general dropbox on the milkman website when buying an amp thinking he would have some intern or shop buddy checking on those, and got a nice email back from the man himself. Truly a one-man operation, and a very humble and talented guy.
6:26 "The Metal Zone is a shocker... sometimes" pure grace Josh ❤
Nice one guys! Get ahold of Buddy Emmons Live in Denver if you can. It's from '76 and he goes way into effects during the show then talks about the fx pedals he's using in a Q&A afterwards. He uses delays for a rhythmic multiplying thing, an MXR harmonizer, all kinds of stuff. Still sounds futuristic 40+ years later.
Hi Brett!
That was fun! I love Pretzel Logic. I've also recently discovered Larkin Poe who play blues with Megan Lowell on lap steel with a lot of pedals!
Peter Gilmour & Steve Howe had some fantastic lap/pedal steel guitar stuff during the early parts of Pink Floyd & Yes.
Also, "Y'all McCartney" was brilliant. Would definitely jam that on Spotify.
Peter's brother David wasn't too bad either.
Mario Driessen SAVAGE.
Wow. I just realized a massive typo. That should've been David Gilmour. I guess I get several points for 0 double checking >_>
Great Video guys!!!
This is the first time I am that captivated by Josh's playing. Great rhythm section!
I have always loved the pedal steel - I really dug 'Dark side of the bitcoin' - Tim really nailed that Gilmour sound and style. That dude has some serious talent!
great performans, great to see and hear you play!!!!
When you show up to you’re country gig with a metal zone on the pedal steel
Greg Leisz, Greg Leisz, and more Greg Leisz! Greg plays on several albums with Bill Frisell, Ryan Adams, Beck, John Mayer, Lucinda Williams, and Ray Lamontagne's "Gossip in The Grain."
I saw Greg Leisz play live with Jackson Browne a couple of years ago. Greg can play anything! Regular guitar, lap steel, pedal steel, Weissenborn, he can do it all!
My best memory of hearing a pedal steel guitar out of country was in ATV Off-road Fury 3 with Robert Randolph and the Family Band in the track Squeeze.
OMG totally!!!!!
Great game
Josh, I am a Sacred Steel Guitar player in Huntsville, AL...I must say I appreciate the exposure...Dwight
Shout out for the Anderson Erickson whole milk!!!! That’s my life. I live in Des Moines, IA and that is hands down the best dairy in the nation!
Love this! As a pedal steel player (who also plays Williams guitars and Milkman amps:) Tim has been my go to guy for advice when buying my steel and pairing it with just the right amp and fix.
He mentioned Greg Leisz who is my steel idol. That guy has played with Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne but then his steel play is all over newer records, my favorite was Bon Ivers self titled album. Steel all over it. Another steel hero of mine will always be Eric Heywood, he toured with Ray Lamontagne and I got the pleasure of listening to him and Greg live. 2 steels. Amazing!
this is awesome... Cheers from Brazil !
It took me a lot longer than it should have to get why there was a carton of milk there.
lol
I see your milk jug of choice is Anderson-Erickson; I live in Iowa and the home town of Anderson Erickson Dairy ....so Bravo to you!!! As a pedal steel guitar player, I use reverb(BossRV-6), chorus(Boss), delay(Roland DE7), a resonator simulator pedal, and a Harmonist(Boss) but not very often. Attached to the guitar is a Goodrich Steel Driver which is an impedance matching box that also has a killer distortion in it. Thanks for doing something for us steel players!!!!!!!!
One of the best videos yet! I really enjoy the diversity you explore with your channel. 👊🏼
That "Ya'll McCartney" section I swear sounded like it could be something off the Flaming Lips album "The Soft Bulletin" (I think that's the album name). Either way - its very close to the sound. I think the similar sound is right there on the first track of that album. Really cool to see these demonstrations. The sounds of pedal steel, lap steel and then just slide period have to be my favorite guitar and guitar-esque sounds. I'm an off and on country fan, but I listen to all genres of music and I think pedal steel guitar (or the other variants) can make music of any genre more expressive or heart-tuggingly beautiful. Good stuff. :-)
i remember hearing the opening to the eric clapton mtv unplugged version of running on faith and it was simple but i just fell in love with that sound and have always loved it since.
what a cool episode :) love the humble little crumar synth in the background :)
Nice jamming - something you don't see a lot of on this channel. Tim's a great pedal steel player, too.
Seeing Josh playing bass is so special
Josh, awesome episode! I’ve never been much of a steel player. But as a part time Lap Steel guy, I am big fan of fender reverb, might use a little blues driver mixed with a pedal you designed with your buddy Tim. The Milkman.
On another note, I met sneaky Pete in Northern KY years ago when he was playing in a band with Garth Hudson from the “Band” on keys called Burrito Deluxe. He was a really nice guy. Interesting note he did stop action work for “The Empire Strikes Back” when he was not doing as much with music. He told me he only ever used 1 pedal steel in his whole career.
Josh! Love the episode on pedal steel! I play the instrument myself. My favorite pedals: the sarno freeloader variable load/buffer. The pigtronix philosophers tone micro and the tighty Whitey for parallel compression (they are tied for top spot, ATM). For dirt I stack a sarno earth drive and a Durham mucho boosto both set very low. Delay is an MXR carbon copy bright. Reverb is a hardwire digital reverb (digitech).
I’d like to hear your thoughts on pigtronix pedals. I love the philosopher’s tone germanium on guitar, and their key master is pretty amazing. Also, I’ve loved every Durham pedal I’ve tried. Take care!
that Ibanez delay looks awesome...I love those old, massive pedals even though they're impractical as far as the space they take up.
Bought my first JHS pedal last week. Thanks to your videos. Morning Glory.
Awesome! Thanks, and hope you love it!
When i started learning to play steel I used a Big Muff, FOX fuzz wah, Maestro 3 button phase shifter, moved away from all that for a long time as i became a player. Sneaky, Buddy Cage, & Rusty Young were influential. Now years later it’s an overdrive dejour, auto wah , RESO sim, and a Lexicon for all time based EFX, delays, rotary, chorus, phase, flange etc.
There are some great and creative players out here today but to quote Herbie Wallace in 1985 , “ everyone wants to play like Buddy Emmons” and it’s still true.
Also, I noticed the various milk containers too. Very cool
True, pedal steel has been on a bunch of top 40 and classic rock since the 70's, not just country. Interesting ideas with the pedals in this video. I could see a pedal steel, bass and drum trio playing in the prog/jam band scene.
Actually does anyone know of a band like that? I'd like to check them out.
UNIVOX BASS SPOTTED - and the super fuzz woot!!
awesome sounds!
All time favorite pedal steel song is "Squeeze" by Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Just an absolute jam. That man changed my opinion of the pedal steel forever
Josh, as usual you offer the most intelligent, fun, inspiring content on music and effects! I loved the univibe and wah tones the best. I play psg and this opened my eyes and ears. Thank you.
Can’t talk about steel guitar without talking about Speedy West! I highly recommend his stuff with Jimmy Bryant. Also Nels Cline has been know to play some out there lap steel.
amazing! i also got into steel guitar in NY when i lived there 10+ years ago. And i also got into it from Bob Hoffnar. He was my first teacher and he helped me find and by a Rains double neck steel guitar. I bought it from Gary Carpenter directly. Still have it and love it. I mainly make ambient music with it. Susan Alcorn is an amazing experimental steel guitar player that i highly recommend checking out. As well as Bob - his music is amazing!
and obviously Daniel Lanois is a genius. He's last album is all steel and slide.
love the steel guitar on Queens of the Stone Age records, tasty and adding so much texture. Troy Van Leeuwen and Dave Catching in the early days.
*Ya'll McCartney*! This is some fantastic programming (once again), guys! Love the milk container cameos in every frame.
I love the old Slim Whitman catalog for pedal steel X yodeling = WIN
David Gilmour on One of These Days: some of my favorite steel guitar. Oh my yes. Also a bunch of the tracks on I, Flathead by Ry Cooder.
As a keyboard player, I was trying to focus to see which ones are in the background. I also dabble in lap steel with an old copper colored Harmony with a weird looking stainless steel nut that is circular and notched for the strings
I forgot to mention how much I've loved the crazy lap steel work of Queens of the Stone Age. Loved all the pieces you guys played.
Love us some pedal steel. Great vid, nailed it.
My favourite track with pedalsteel is probably 3‘s and 7‘s by Queens of the Stone Age.
That lead riff is so glorious!
The sound on “Dark Side” reminds me of Buddy Cage’s sound on Meet Me in the Morning, which I always assumed was his steel through a Rat. Must have been a fuzz of some sort.
dark side of the moon do you mean
Breathe in the air
Milkman amps are now the first thing I think of when lap steel comes up. Perfect
"Hot Milk" by far the best track! I'm sure after being posted up for a year you're probably not going to see this but one of my favorite "modern" albums with a pedal steel is "Plays One Sound and Others" by the band Knife in the Water.
Man, steel guitar. Love it. My grandpa modded them back in the day. Gave me one before he passed but it was stolen a couple years ago! The mel9 is insane! Sounds so ballad-ish. And the unicorn on a steel! Sounded so good. Fresh sounds coming out of the pedal steel would make my grandpa smile.
Oh no! That's terrible, man :(
JHS Pedals I’ll get another one eventually and get back on the seat and have some fun with pedals now too. Awesome topic to tackle for your vlog!
Way to be! I love that you're so positive :)
John Neff in his time with Drive By Truckers. Incredible slide player.
I love my Milkman pedal amp 🥛 Tim is the man. Great episode nice playing lads!
Earthquaker's Spatial Delivery (specifically sample & hold mode) sounds incredible on pedal steel. Anything Earthquaker works, really!
Anything with Speedy West, especially if Jimmy Bryant is on the record. :-)
I can’t get over how full it makes the band it’s like he is the Edge of slide. Very cool. I need some chocolate milk now
so nuts! I've wanted to get into steel guitar for months now.
Do it!
HEY JHS! 2:50 that vibe sound from the jhs pedal is soooooo thick and chewy very very nice!!!! i know this was not an add for that pedal BUT i am going to buy one!
Nice! Thanks!!
I play my Sho-Bud pedal steel through a Keeley/JHS Steak N Eggs all the time. Pretty much every guitar needs to be played through that pedal though...
My two big tricks on pedal steel are chorus and reverb (or slapback delay). Again, I think all guitars can benefit from a bit of those two a lot of the time, but a pedal steel is so sonically complex that giving it some extra breathing room is really nice. But here’s the trick - go digital! A TC Electronic Gravy is a killer digital chorus, I love the Tri-Chorus sound. I don’t really like a modulated delay or reverb with pedal steel, so I go with my trusty Dan-Echo (the greatest delay pedal ever, I don’t care what anyone says) and Keeley Aura Reverb. I have never really noticed digital artifacts, but I love the clean headroom of digital effects for pedal steel. If you want saturation in your pedal steel signal, that’s awesome, but I don’t really like my non-drive effects clipping my pedal steel signal, there’s just too much dynamics and harmonics that get lost and smushy.
One last thing - fuzz. Just throw any fuzz in your line and see what works. If I wanna get weird, I’ll use a Keeley Sfocato, and the Keeley Psi is really gnarly on pedal steel, especially with the tone down and gain up, it gets all muffled and weird. I really like my Lovepedal (or it could be Hermida Audio?) Dover Drive with the gain up for pedal steel.
I'm a lap steel player-pedals I use are a compressor for sustain mostly, a reverb/delay pedal and also a Volume pedal for pedal-steel-like swells (this can be a lot fun especially within a band setting-it gets you a poor man’s pedal-steel sound- it really works once you get the hang of it). I like Jerry Garcia's playing on his solo LP "Garcia" for it 's simplicity- specifically the track "the Wheel".
Hey Josh .. I have been into slide & pedal steel since Dark side of the Moon & Lowell George .. Robert Randolph .. of course .. jerry Donahue ? plays with Vince Gill & Alison Krauss union station .. Brad Paisley said about Alison if he ever gets to Heaven he expects the angels to sing like her .. so true .. But you know somepeople think everything happens for a reason .. I'm not so sure but I try to find the positive when I can .. so when I got a skin condition that meant I couldnt play gtr & I started getting arthritis .. I learned to play keyboards & started working on my slide .. a good pedal steel is beyond my budget for now .. but this is why I have been ragging on you about making a decent wah & volume pedal .. & why so far in the Jhs range it would be the Milkman b4 the Ryan Adams .. for me .. Although I see now that your new bigger colorsound thingy that is like a big mixing desk one channel .. D.i. & again would take me half a years pension to get two .. But I do love real controls & not menus etc .. Anyhow Y'all McCartney .. lol .. but I just loved that vintage guitar you played at the start.. Dark tobacco burst .. looked like an Epiphone ? .. thats my style .. B4 I go if you haven't heard of " Larkin Poe " .. give them a listen .. two sisters from the bluegrass circuit .. seriously good blues & slide Americana .. & not hard on the eyes to look at either .. lol .. The story goes they jumped up to sing along with Elvis Costello .. not knowing he was famous & the next thing they were on tour with his Band .. Bye Y'all .. from the Deep woods of ye olde Englande ..
This blew my mind, especially the "Y'all McCarteny" with the EH Mel pedal. If you like steel guitar, check out Friends of Dean Martinez - lots of great steel guitar but not a country/western song anywhere.
Thanks for making this video and promoting use of pedal steel that breaks the stereotypical mold. Pedal steel guitar is most recognizable when it is used in its traditional setting in Hawaiian or Country music, but it has so many other applications. After playing guitar for about 15 years I finally made the plunge into the world of pedal steel. I've been there for about 10 years now, and every time I sit down at the instrument I find new ways to use it in all kinds of music. Here is my rig: Sierra Timberwolf pedal steel guitar -> Lovepedal Tone Bender -> Origin Slide Rig -> Ernie Ball MVP -> TC Polytune Mini (outside of signal path) -> Hudson Electronics Broadcast -> Wampler Tumnus mini -> TC Viscous Vibe -> Keeley Memphis Sun -> TC Hall of Fame Reverb -> Supro Dual Tone (I have a footswitch for the amp's tremolo). I use an E-Bow on the steel sometimes, too. Pretty much every steel player uses a volume pedal and reverb or a delay, but I find that fuzzes, overdrives, boosts, compressors, tremolos, phasers/flangers/vibes, and synthesizers can all work well with the pedal steel. I wish there were more pedal steel players talking about how they use effects with the instrument, and I appreciate what JHS and Milkman are doing to promote pedal steel in all genres of music.
Also check out Carl Broemel (of My Morning Jacket) for an example of a guitarist who plays both six-string guitar and pedal steel. He uses a bunch of effects for both and he sounds great.
Second David Gilmour. The pedal steel on 'Great Gig in the Sky' makes the song. And another vote for Daniel Lanois. (great producer also)
Double dip as the old guys in AA use to say. Got home finished listening in my truck . Ironic Sneaky Pete + the same solo I mentioned was mentioned. Ok so you know what (Edit-we) to I want, I don't have a b bender tele but did briefly. Invent it the BG bender pedal for guitar . Like a wah wah but way smaller with a small sweep for B + G bends or any string I guess could bend .I know you can do it + I want the - 1st one.
Robert Randolph and the Family Band blew me away, too. As good as Tim Marcus' plays, the song titles may steal the show.
Favorite episode to date!
My PSG playing has been heavily influenced by Poco’ early stuff. Rusty’s steel work was overwhelming and I thought “Wow, a pedal steel in a rock band!” But when I first saw them in November of 1970 at the Filmore West, Rusty was smokin’ on the steel, but what I often heard was a Hammond B3. “How the heck does he do that?” Yes there was a Showman powered 122 stacked up behind him with the Twin and another Showman cab, but it wasn’t just the sound of an instrument through a Leslie….. it was something more.
By 1972 I could stand it no more. I bought an MSA Semi-Classic 4+2 S10 and a bar, and then spent about eight months listening to Poco records and trying to get it to do something musical. Had no amp, just a flat pick, and I’d stick my ear down near it as I finally figured out that 3,4,5,6 would give me a major chord, and that A and B would change that to the IV chord, etc. (Where was the Forum and the Internet when I needed them?). 1974 and ’75 found me hooked up with the Christian country-rock band “Hallelujah!” for two US tours. A guitar-driven band doing original Poco-ish and Eagles-like tunes, we had no keys. It was then that I took a stab at the B3 thing with a Maestro Phase Shifter and a wah pedal (I had seen Rusty use a wah to emulate the drawbars on a B3). Also got inside the phase shifter and tweaked on a couple of little trim-pots that gave the pitch-shift a bit more depth and more of the doppler effect sound.
Years went by, I cut my hair, got a real job and the steel gathered dust until it was eventually sold. Fast forward to 2018 and I was going to sell off the sound company, semi-retire and get back into playing music before I got too old (to make my fingers move). Realizing that guitar players are a dime-a-dozen, my best chance to get into a band was on pedal steel. The wheels began to churn upstairs and a month before I even got another steel, I had designed an FX rack to do just what I wanted. A hefty order from Sweetwater arrived about a week before I even made the trip to Jim Palenscar’s Steel Guitars of North County. Came home with a super clean MCI Arlington S10 3+5 (black of course) and sure enough, it started coming back to me. Now for the fun part….
Wanting to be able to get the B3 thing on demand as well as use the steel in more traditional ways, I planned out my FX with two full-time parallel paths. Both the “steel” path and the “B3” path would be simultaneously fed by the steel, and then an A/B switch would select which was output to the amp and house. This let me switch real-time between the two in a song such as Poco’s Good Feelin’ to Know.
As for the “voice” of a B3, I settled on two components besides the steel itself. The first was an Electro-Harmonix B9 pedal, generally set on the “Fat and Full” setting with the Key Click and Modulation turned off. This provides the overtone-rich sound of an organ. It also uses compression to emulate the sustain of an organ. The second thing was to simulate the drawbars of a B3. Rusty had used a wah pedal effectively, so that’s where I started. I realized after a while (at least in the classic rock type material I was doing) that it would change from mellow to bright, but being a band-pass filter, it omitted all the other frequencies that it wasn’t passing. In other words, when I would go from mellow to bright, all the bottom would drop out. Now I know on the real B3 you can have any combination of low, middle and high registers by pulling the stops, but I was simply looking for a change from lows and mids only, to full range, so I wired up another VPJR to act as a “tone” circuit (mellow/full-range).
Now a Leslie effect has been discussed to death already, but I settled on the Neo Ventillator II with an Ashby half-moon speed switch. I attached the half-moon with Velcro on the psg’s rear apron near my right hand so I can change speeds while holding a chord, and my right foot is free to “pull the stops” with the tone pedal. A friend of mine has a B3 and a 122 so I had him help me tweak the controls on the Vent until it sounds really darn good.
Some odds and ends….. There is also the matter of not doing “steel things” while trying to sound like a B3: no left hand vibrato, no bending with pedals or sliding the bar, no need to keep right foot on the volume pedal as the EHX B9 does the sustaining. Also thinking more percussive like on a keyboard helps. I’m only able to do some simple single-note things besides the full chords / pads, but to think like a keyboard player or learn some parts note for note.
Building my FX rack was a ton of fun (almost as much fun as using it). I had a 6-space rack available so I started by putting wheels on one lid (now officially the “bottom”). I built in the Strymon power supplies as well as a cooling fan for those summertime outdoor gigs, and there was room below the FX pedal “deck” to store the pre-cabled volume and tone pedals as well as a sandwich or two. The PSG goes directly to a Korg Pitch Black tuner, then a JHS buffer/splitter that feeds the two chains. The “normal steel” FX chain includes an EHX Mel9, an Ibanez mini Tube Screamer, an MXR Phase 95, then a TC Electronics Hall of Fame 2 ‘verb. The “B3” chain starts with the EHX B9 then the Neo Vent into a TC Electronics Hall of Fame mini. The Boss AB-2 switch silently selects which chain goes to an internal Radial DI for an XLR out as well as the ¼” to the amp (currently a Fender Rumble 200 1-15). The Boss switch only accepted batteries, so I retrofitted a 9v power jack with resistor so as to not have to deal with battery. I’m using a stereo 25K volume pedal that places one circuit between the buffer and the steel chain, and the other half (and the “tone” pedal) between the B9 and the Neo Vent. This is so as to control the “organ” volume post “organ voice” (B9 and wah), but before the “Leslie”.
All in all, I’m very pleased with my setup. Everyone has their own way of doing things , but it’s quick and easy for me to get the FX I need during a show. As Jerry said…. “what a long strange trip it’s been”.
This was amazing!!
I've always loved the Pedal Steel and tried emulate it when playing slide.
But there's nothing like the real thing and Tim is the real thing.
My favorite effect for the pedal steel, all of them, for real. In the right hands they all work.
There is a Trailer Park Boys Chrismas episode that features the pedal steel,
And It so captivating, I'll find out who it is and edit my post.
Thanks Josh and Tim for such a cool segment
Trailer Park Boys pedal steel players name is John Johncampbelljohn
Chugging milk... milk cartons everywhere: rock star debauchery.
episode on Multi Effects that don't suck would be awesome! Maybe even show us how to integrate that style of tech with analog pedals
Russ Freeman did some cool pedal steel work with Rippingtons....
Great episode.
That was a great jam. I played it for my kids 8-18. Damn I’m getting old as fuck!? It matters none, the kids liked it too. There’s hope for the future - rock on.
My first introduction to lap guitar was Double D from Ed, Edd n' Eddy. He shredded that instrument like a boss and my adolescent mind went *kablooey*
Gabe Cabanillas kablooey
Same. 9 year old me vowed to get one someday.
I am a proud owner of a 50s Tonemaster now.
For amazing fuzz/distortion, I use an old Danelectro T-bone starved at 4volts. This works great on my pedal steel. Also use a Belle Epoch, Oceans 11, Dano Back Talk, Phase 90 script, and a mighty Tychobrahe Pedalflanger. Pedal Steel has very clear note separation and long sustain, too much gain gets ugly.
I used to think that pedal steel was just that slidy, twangy country thingy, but Christoph Hahn from Swans taught me that this thing can be the instrument of hell!
Hugely underrated episode.
I'm gonna need at least one of those as well. Thanks!
How can you have a whole episode with a Univox SuperFuzz sitting there and not use it??? ARRGHH!!
Loved what you did on this vdo. Is there anyway you could post in comments the various pedals that were used in the vdo? Some mentioned were not clear. Also, all the posters who say can't stand country music don't understand music in general and need to get themselves an education in how great the pickers over the last 60 years have been to enrich our musical lives. BTW, I'm a steel player, rock, jazz, country guitarist and I love good country as much as I love bebop.
Daniel Lanois is a master at pedal steel, listen to his album Belladonna, just magnificient.
I’m a big fan of Pee Wee Charles (aka, Ed Ringwald) who played with Gordon Lightfoot in the 1970s and 1980s. Great example of his work is on Lightfoot’s Summertime Dream album from 1976, which has the famous “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” on it. You can really feel the eeriness and tension of the nighttime gales that sank the ship through his playing - complements the lead guitar beautifully.
Effing amazing. I'm a Dobro convert and play electric lap steel as well. This was inspiring. I'm having trouble recruiting for a steel-fronted instrumental band. This might help.
First, you promised my mind would be blown, and it was. The best song was the intro one and “Dark side of the bitcoin”! As a fairly new steeler, I’m just starting to experiment and mostly just with my current guitar pedals. I was kind of surprised he didn’t talk about volume since that is the standard for pedal steel. I have the boss RV-5 which gets great spring reverb for traditional steel sounds, but also cool shimmery sounds with the modulate setting. I also use the el capistan which similarly can be tamed or can be wild tape echo with looping.
I really loved the fuzz sound and I liked the univibe sound! I’ll have to try those out in the near future! I was most excited to see Tim and the new milkman the amp because I’m saving up for that currently! Also, Josh - id love to try the VCR on pedal steel and electric if you still ever feel like getting generous with sending that!
Also, that was a lot of exclamation points but clearly I’m very excited. I wish I would’ve known more about JHS the last time I was in Kansas City... next time I’ll stop by!
Milk was a GOOD choice.
Great steel guitar on CAKE tracks too. Greg Vincent is his name. "Mexico" comes to mind.
Gotta check out the flat edge on regular steel bars Ralph Mooney used. Makes a sitar like sound, very cool.
I built a lap steel guitar, because I wanted the growl and sustain--LOVE the way it sounds. I'd love to get a pedal steel...heck, maybe I'll build one! KD Lang's producer Ben Mink turned me onto what an ambient pedal steel can sound like. Listen to KD Lang's album Ingenue. Stereo analog chorus sounds awesome with a lap or pedal steel guitar.
Looking through the comments I don't see a single mention of probably the only musician in history who was both one of the fundamental designers of the instrument and the preeminent virtuoso on it, Buddy Emmons who of course is mentioned in the video. Yes he's the most recorded session player but a lot of folks don't know he has two brutally awesome jazz albums, they're not jazz records by a country musician but real deal jazz coming from a jazz musician. His 1963 studio jazz record is mind-blowing, even moreso when you find out he was around 23, but his 1977 live jazz album is full of exceptionally clever and in service of the music effect pedals. At times he sounds like Jan Hammer doing his guitar impression on a keytar over a Mahavishnu type track but my absolute favorite is the envelope filter combined with delay, I'm an acoustic bassist inspired to learn 8 string lap steel by Junior Brown and I had to pick up an envelope filter and dial it in to get that sound. It's just enough to be different but not whacky. That live Buddy Emmons record is funny cuz the first couple pre-bebop tracks have the listener "huh, electric bass over acoustic, odd choice but then again they're doing the best with who's available and whatnot" then the fusion tracks come in and it's "oh, now I understand"
what a great time to be alive
Greg Leisz' pedal steel work on Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" album blew my mind when I was a kid. Still does. Give it a listen!
Awesome Video guys!!!:
All the songs that you guys played were awesome!!
I’m a left handed guitar/lap steel player. I have a couple vintage lap steels my favourite one is a 1955 fender champion lap steel. for lap steel I use my guitar amp which is a mesa boogie mark one reissue. For pedals I use a Morley volume plus pro series, and a really cool pedal called “ZEBRA ZEN” which is a super hard on/zen drive two in one pedal made by Matt Reinhard At MJR effects. You should check out his webpage Josh his workmanship is amazing he uses exotic woods like zebrawood as well as his circuit boards made out of exotic wood 😀 Down the road I may add a compressor. Any suggestions Josh?
I just recently started playing lap steel. A couple players on RUclips Jacob Raagaard, Raphael McGregor, and Thomas Oliver (check out Thomas’s RUclips video called lap steel jam it’s very cool/unique) were the players that sparked my interest in lap steel. Keep up the great work Josh the videos are awesome!
If it sounds good, it is good ;)
Looking forward to getting home watching the end of this video ,always something I was interested in. Sneaky Pete in the Flying Burrito Brother's has that solo with fuzz it's amazing but the traditional guys hated it .