improvFriday posts 2010

by Breaking Light

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Riding Rails

Uploaded December 4, 2010 3:35am.

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an improv with the ol pedal steel, with loads of fx. Spent a lot of time trying to get the noise off this track, but had limited success.

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Breaking Light said January 17, 2011 6:22pm

Thanks Chris. The pedals lower the pitch on the strings, like a tremolo bar on a conventional guitar, but one string at a time, not all. Mine is a 6 string with 4 pedals.

vaisvil said January 17, 2011 4:23pm

I love the sound of this - beautiful!! What do the pedals do in a pedal steel guitar?

Reefwalker said December 6, 2010 5:38pm

very cool FXs> using a bow on this right? love the sound

Keith Landry said December 6, 2010 5:31pm

Very cool... Great to listen to while grading these algebra quizzes!

Jean-Luc Thomas said December 5, 2010 10:41am

Im getting a Pink Floyd/Yes. vibe, rock on.

Movement To Contact said December 4, 2010 4:11pm

Very smooth sounds, love the texture you got going on on this one

kirklynch said December 4, 2010 1:34pm

Fascinating sounds! Always wanted to have a go at pedal steel myself

Breaking Light said December 4, 2010 12:50pm

You're right SS, I thought of whales too, may have to retitle it now! @Joe: I think it's C6 tuning, which is standard ps tuning, I could be wrong. As some of you know my BL stuff is heavily inspired by Susan Alcorn, and esp. this piece. Look her up on YT and elsewhere, she's incredible.

Guest said December 4, 2010 11:47am

Reminds me of whale song! Gorgeous!

Big Joe Silence said December 4, 2010 5:17am

love this! what tuning did you use?

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