Oh wow, pedal steel!

Fantastic performance. Love the feel of the no click recording, it just feels so alive. Even that creak in your guitar contributes. That organ has such amazing texture as well.

This is all so impressive. Looking forward to hearing more!

Oh wow, pedal steel! Fantastic performance. Love the feel of the no click recording, it just feels so alive. Even that creak in your guitar contributes. That organ has such amazing texture as well. This is all so impressive. Looking forward to hearing more!

Sounds fantastic. Really lovely finger work and the shimmer verb on that pedal steel is a treat.

Sounds fantastic. Really lovely finger work and the shimmer verb on that pedal steel is a treat.

relaxing with a hint of exotica

relaxing with a hint of exotica

WOAH

so glad you are back!  congrats on a beautiful first entry is pedal steel hard to play?

WOAH so glad you are back! congrats on a beautiful first entry <3 is pedal steel hard to play?

you sound great sir. loved this

you sound great sir. loved this

that martin is beautiful. really looking forward to more of your songs

that martin is beautiful. really looking forward to more of your songs

Thanks for listening! I'm glad you liked it.

Thanks! The shimmer is on the Wurlitzer electric piano. But I have done shimmer on the pedal steel before, it's rather lovely. The Strymon Shimmer is rather nice.

Thanks!

Glad to be back! It's comforting knowing you're still out there listening, you've seen so many different phases of my music over the years at this point.

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

I do love that Martin very much. I don't record it enough. A 000-16GT that I got as a gift for myself after lockdown which I spent learning guitar (I'm a drummer first). It has kept me very good company. I really need to find a luthier to give it some TLC, though.

[quote=Paisleyfrog]Oh wow, pedal steel! Fantastic performance. Love the feel of the no click recording, it just feels so alive. Even that creak in your guitar contributes. That organ has such amazing texture as well. This is all so impressive. Looking forward to hearing more![/quote] Thanks for listening! I'm glad you liked it. [quote=ENC_]Sounds fantastic. Really lovely finger work and the shimmer verb on that pedal steel is a treat.[/quote] Thanks! The shimmer is on the Wurlitzer electric piano. But I have done shimmer on the pedal steel before, it's rather lovely. The Strymon Shimmer is rather nice. [quote=Machine Gun Ibiza]relaxing with a hint of exotica[/quote] Thanks! [quote=orangedrink]WOAH so glad you are back! congrats on a beautiful first entry <3 is pedal steel hard to play?[/quote] Glad to be back! It's comforting knowing you're still out there listening, you've seen so many different phases of my music over the years at this point. [quote=monstret]you sound great sir. loved this[/quote] Thanks! Glad you liked it! [quote=It'sAlwaysBeenBears]that martin is beautiful. really looking forward to more of your songs[/quote] I do love that Martin very much. I don't record it enough. A 000-16GT that I got as a gift for myself after lockdown which I spent learning guitar (I'm a drummer first). It has kept me very good company. I really need to find a luthier to give it some TLC, though.

Everyone's going to have a different experience. People say it takes 10 years to become a mediocre pedal steel plater. I'm about 4 years into it, and aside from one track last WeeklyBeats where it was mostly buried in a synth texture, this is the only time I've really recorded it. I'm getting better at getting more usable takes with it, but it's definitely a learning curve. You certainly need to get really comfortable with intervals and how chords voice lead from one to another and kinaesthetically it's definitely a novel thing need to engage hands, feet and knees independently. They might as well be six independent limbs. But the sounds you can get from it are pretty great. If you take to it, it's pretty a life-long process of mastering it and it's very very rewarding.

But with that said, a second-hand steel will pretty much never lose its value as long as it's in good shape, especially from the more well-known brands like Sho-Bud, Emmons, GFI, etc. So I say, buy one anyway. The worst case, you don't take to it and you sell it on. But it's very very rewarding and I discover something new every time I sit down to play.

The only other thing is if you own a pedal steel guitar, especially an older one, you do have to get pretty familiar with how they work so you can maintain it as there are a lot of mechanical parts and linkages that work together to make it to the pedal steel thing. In my case, I live in Australia, so barely anyone knows how to work on them and any parts need to be sourced from overseas. I got mine from a second hand guitar shop and they had claimed that it got serviced. It was definitely not the case. It was in awful shape. I had to learn to take the entire thing apart, clean out the mechanism and set it up properly. But armed with what I learnt from that, I can make it do what I like. When you're a bit further down the line with pedal steel, it's not uncommon to start messing around with your own copedent (think like an alternative tuning on steroids). Every pedal and knee lever, if you have the tools, parts and patience can be made to bend the strings in all sorts of ways, the different combinations can yield some very novel sounds that would physically impossible on any other instrument.

[quote=orangedrink]WOAH is pedal steel hard to play?[/quote] Everyone's going to have a different experience. People say it takes 10 years to become a mediocre pedal steel plater. I'm about 4 years into it, and aside from one track last WeeklyBeats where it was mostly buried in a synth texture, this is the only time I've really recorded it. I'm getting better at getting more usable takes with it, but it's definitely a learning curve. You certainly need to get really comfortable with intervals and how chords voice lead from one to another and kinaesthetically it's definitely a novel thing need to engage hands, feet and knees independently. They might as well be six independent limbs. But the sounds you can get from it are pretty great. If you take to it, it's pretty a life-long process of mastering it and it's very very rewarding. But with that said, a second-hand steel will pretty much never lose its value as long as it's in good shape, especially from the more well-known brands like Sho-Bud, Emmons, GFI, etc. So I say, buy one anyway. The worst case, you don't take to it and you sell it on. But it's very very rewarding and I discover something new every time I sit down to play. The only other thing is if you own a pedal steel guitar, especially an older one, you do have to get pretty familiar with how they work so you can maintain it as there are a lot of mechanical parts and linkages that work together to make it to the pedal steel thing. In my case, I live in Australia, so barely anyone knows how to work on them and any parts need to be sourced from overseas. I got mine from a second hand guitar shop and they had claimed that it got serviced. It was definitely not the case. It was in awful shape. I had to learn to take the entire thing apart, clean out the mechanism and set it up properly. But armed with what I learnt from that, I can make it do what I like. When you're a bit further down the line with pedal steel, it's not uncommon to start messing around with your own copedent (think like an alternative tuning on steroids). Every pedal and knee lever, if you have the tools, parts and patience can be made to bend the strings in all sorts of ways, the different combinations can yield some very novel sounds that would physically impossible on any other instrument.

Lovely, looking forward to hearing more

Lovely, looking forward to hearing more

Glad you're here for another pass. I'm not entirely sure what creaks you're on about, but if it's what I think it is, it works really well for this one.
- Devieus

Glad you're here for another pass. I'm not entirely sure what creaks you're on about, but if it's what I think it is, it works really well for this one. - Devieus

This is glorious. Come with more!

This is glorious. Come with more!

amazing!

amazing!

Incredible! So full of life and character! A wave of relaxation hit me with that first pedal steel sweeping chord.

I have adored pedal steel for a while and though I don't need another instrument to learn, also being in Australia, this has been a concern that has made me think twice about it. It was interesting to hear your experience! I guess I'll just have to be satisfied enjoying recordings like this in the meantime!

Incredible! So full of life and character! A wave of relaxation hit me with that first pedal steel sweeping chord. [quote=kevanatkins] In my case, I live in Australia, so barely anyone knows how to work on them and any parts need to be sourced from overseas.[/quote] I have adored pedal steel for a while and though I don't need another instrument to learn, also being in Australia, this has been a concern that has made me think twice about it. It was interesting to hear your experience! I guess I'll just have to be satisfied enjoying recordings like this in the meantime!

lovely sounds! somehow i have just listened to back to back tracks with lapsteel sounds from week 1

lovely sounds! somehow i have just listened to back to back tracks with lapsteel sounds from week 1

Wow, this is beautiful. Sounds like a professional studio recording with tons of flavor and character to it.

Wow, this is beautiful. Sounds like a professional studio recording with tons of flavor and character to it.