Pedal Steel Guitar Preamp

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Pedal steel guitar preamp.

This message was edited by jack stoner on 13 april 2005 at 06 33 am. He rarely uses an amp. Originally developed for use with pedal steel guitar the black box is equally effective at breathing life into and enhancing the tone of upright or electric bass electric or acoustic guitar mandolin fiddle rhodes or wurlitzer electric piano synths and keyboards drum machines lap steel guitar studio mix tracks and more. Even though he keeps his overall pedal and plugin setup simple johnson admits he s a bit of a steel guitar heretic in another respect.

The sms v8 octal tube preamp is the supreme tone machine that is built on the ideas of circuit minimalism and component quality. A plus is it has three different preamp sections clean i use this for steel crunch which is great for my telecaster and lead which is the overdrive channel with the hush circuit. Since january of 1997 the steel guitar forum has been bringing all steel guitarists together in a spirit of friendship and a common love of the instrument. Current guitar preamp options are much more varied however and the most convenient choice for the modern pedalboard bound guitarist is probably a pedal preamp.

Today non pedal and pedal steel guitarists of all skill levels share their knowledge with many other players every day. Pedal steel guitars are played by pressing a steel bar on top of the pedal steel guitar strings with one hand while plucking them with fingerpicks on the other hand. The pedal steel itself has four legs several foot operated pedals and often multiple knee operated levers that bend certain strings up and down. He runs some pedals to get other guitar sounds from the steel and organ tones too.

The pedal steel already has an incredible beautiful sustain but sometimes i want to be able to squeeze a little more resonance out of it he tells us. My 470k minimum input impedance listed above takes this into consideration so should be ok so long as the pot in the volume pedal is 500k or greater. We play direct for the most part and with this volume pedal playing it s never a great signal going to the board. A volume pedal in front of a preamp presents an impedance in parallel with the input impedance of an amp or preamp so in affect increases the load on the pickup which can affect the tone.