I have a rather difficult Jerry Byrd arrangement for it … but it requires many slants … I needed to get these reverse slants and forward slants “straightened” out so I could vibrato them (I have Parkinson’s and slanting is out) …
All this hand lever talk lately on the forum here gave me an idea …
I have a ShoBud Pro III pedal steel (I put my own pickups in there) ….the issue was, the C6 pedals didn’t help me accomplish throwing the slant positions needed for this song … So I figured out how to change the pedal setup.
These changes make no sense in the conventional paradigm of multiple chords played on one fret …. So I didn’t want to post this in the PSG section …. The changes are strictly there to eliminate slanting while staying on a pair of strings to harmonize them.
I left the High E alone …
I put a C to C# raise (reverse slant on string 1-2)
I put a A to Ab lower (forward slant on string 2-3)
I put a G to Ab raise (reverse slant on strings 1-4)
I put a G to Gb lower (split slant strings 1,2-4)
I put an E to Eb lower (forward slant on strings 2-5 and 4-5)
So here’s the final version of the “Hawaiian Wedding Song” played on a pedal steel guitar pretending to be a lap steel (I tried real hard not to include the sound of the actual pedal changing sounds) …… it’s also my first venture into real recording, mixing and mastering … I did my best
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QFxxF0 ... p=drivesdk
*headphones or earbuds for stereo effect
I can't get over how much the tone and movement sounds like one of your lap steel recordings. I'm sure some of it has to do with using your own pickup but a lot of it has to do with that special touch that you provide. What Would Rick Do? Something well outside the box!
I love it 
I've often said that they invented pedals so mortal man can play like Jerry Byrd 
