Re: Cheap Dobro + Cool Rails =
Always tought of doing that but with a regular steel string guitar.
Awesome.
Do it bro, the sound is quite unique to my ears it sounds like a buffed acoustic, it's still an acoustic tone but bigger and playing with overdrive is such fun, learning how to control the feedback, it's like a poor mans electric with a sustainer hahaha.
Be sure to wire a volume control, that way you can play acoustic and in a solo you can turn the volume on and get a bigger fatter tone, or turn it all the way up and drive that amp.
It's unique and very fun to play.
Thanks man.
That made my day! Very cool stuff.
Thank you
I'm glad to know my posts help and that people enjoy them.
Thank you.
sweet!
what strings do you use?
i tried a single coil (duncan designed acoustic SC) before for my acoustics but it sucked. so i use a tranducer instead.
i read somewhere before, that acoustic strings has less magnetic pull than electric ones. maybe that's why i did not like it..
but anyway, nice axe you got there, i'm sure it plays awesome!
Thank you.
Well it kinda depends when what you're looking for it doessn't sound like an eletric guitar nor does it sound like an acoustic that's just amplified, it's somewhere between the two. Or it could be the pickup, what didn't you like about it?
I've read that same thing about acoustic strings, and it does make sense.
I'm using acoustic strings, usually the heaviest gauge I can find, and since in Portugal no many people use them, they're hard to come by, these particular ones are 0.13 they are from Guild I think.
Pera aí... porque raio é que te respondi em inglês? LOL
Tá do best.
LOL, porque falar em português é perigoso...eles podem aprender a língua e depois não podemos conspirar contra os EUA!
Very, very nice !!!
I always thought a reso of any sort, would only sound good/work w. a low-out put PU. Those Cool Rails are HOT = something like 12K, i think !
I would LOVE to have an all metal Reso with a pu, but they are soooo hard to find and/or sickingly expensive
What amp/dirt boxes do you use ?
String size ?
James
Thank you James.
It also tought it only worked with low oputput pickups, but I only had a Cool Rails laying around so I decided to try it. I think the CR is about 9k or something, it's a neck position.
If you live in Europe check Harley Benton and Johnson Guitars, thomann.de used to have both brands, and I must say they're not bad and they are cheap
Here's a metal body resonator from Harley Benton
If you are in Europe just press your countrys flag to get the right price (the link I sent you is with the portuguese taxes).
Expensive resonator don't make sense to me, my favourite resonator players, had very cheap ones and I wish I could sound like them, buying an expensive one to me just doesn't make much sense.
As for the dirtboxes, I try and keep it very simple.
I have three amps:
1 - Pignose 7100 (cheap 5 watter that sounds AMAZING to me I love the cleans and if turn the volume up you get a nice distortion to play slide with) I don't use effects with it, except on a rare ocasion I'll use a Maxon OD808 (a Tube Screamer replica)
2 - Tech 21 Trademark 30 - I used it for recording, playing at night and practice, it emulates three amps a tweed, a marshall and a mesa boogie, so no effects needed, for cleans I use the tweed setting for slide a either use the tweed with some gain or the marshall with some gain, depends on the days I guess.
3 - My main amp a Fender 5E3 clone with some mods, I get the distortion from the tubes, or I have to play at low volumes from my OD808, with a small amount of overdrive.
So does it still sound like a Dobro, it definitly has the dobro sound, just louder and fatter, with distortion it sounds very different from an acoustic but I wonder how many people would say that it's a Dobro., wish I had a mic so I could record.
Sorry to take so long but this way you get a long boring answer :lol:
