Re: OT:Re: VIDEO - Walker Bros looping and the Gavilan College

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

Thanx for the tips man,i am really looking into lap
steels and i am also going to install the new
multibender system to emulate the pedalsteel.
A couple of more questions bro:
would you get a single coil or humbucker? why?
Thee are many choices as you can see here:
http://www.thomann.de/de/search_dir.html?sw=lapsteel&x=0&y=0

and some of them are dirt cheap which is really
tempting like this one:
http://www.thomann.de/de/harley_benton_slider_ii.htm

If its an electric lapsteel, how dramatic is the
quality of the wood? you really think if i slap some
good pickups on it it would be just as good as the
more expensive ones?

Just curious man i remeber you using the EDP for a
while, why did you switch to the looperlative? do you
find it more intuitive?how is the sound quality
compared to the EDP?

thanx buddy!
cheers
Luis






--- William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com> wrote:

>    Thanks for the kind words guys, I was hoping they
> had taken that off You
> tube! That was the last time I brought a big rack
> full of stuff to a gig, I
> was using both the Looperlative and the repeater at
> the time and the Cheesy
> Tablas were courtesy of a Roland Gr30 arpeggio I
> wrote. I have since stopped
> using the repeater and the guitar synth live as I
> was wanting to delve
> deeper in to the Looperlative, and simplify my rig.
> I think I might have
> still been using a Vox amp modeler as well.. The Lap
> steel is an original,
> first run Ben Harper model, made by Asher guitars in
> LA. It is a chambered
> body 6 string lap guitar with a very warm woody
> sound.  It was probably in
> a minor tuning as I was playing in harmonic minor on
> the improv. I also may
> have been in a sus 2 tuning which I like because its
> more neutral  and I can
> move in either a harmonic or natural minor direction
> as well as the major,
> Lydian and mixolydian modes  and create great
> sounding full bar sus 2 chords
> any where on the neck.. In D the tuning is DADEAD
> but I also do the same
> R5R25R tuning in C and E as well. I can't say I've
> explored any of the more
> conventional western swing C6 and Dobro G major
> tunings,  yet but every once
> in a while a new tuning comes across my radar  that
> I will explore.
> 
>  I highly recommend taking up the lap steel. You can
> find cheap ones on line
> and put a better pick up in them if needed. I
> recently acquired a new
> gretsch Electromatic lap steel and put a nice TV
> Jones pick up in it. It
> sounds fantastic and is small and light weight.  I
> think the Chinese made
> Gretsch and Korean made PRS guitars make great fixer
> uppers, not too
> expensive and for a  couple of hundred extra bucks
> worth of quality pickups
> they can sound like guitars 3 and 4 times the price.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 


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