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Original Klon Centaur. The Klon Centaur is an overdrive pedal made by the American engineer Bill Finnegan between 1994 and 2008. Finnegan aimed to create a pedal that would recreate the harmonically rich distortion of a guitar amplifier at a high volume. Finnegan struggled to meet demand, and used units sold for inflated prices.
The Klon Centaur, made by American engineer Bill Finnegan, was released in 1994 with the aim of recreating the harmonically rich distortion of an amplifier at a high volume. [56] Finnegan wanted a "big, open" sound, with a "hint of tube clipping," that would not sound like a pedal was being used. [56]
Cortez lifts his hands from the strings. “Kind of,” he says. With school work and sports, sometimes it's hard to find the time. The Hawaiian steel guitar became a cultural force in America at ...
Steel bar (tonebar) used to play certain types of steel guitars Several kinds of steel bars. A steel bar, commonly referred to as a "steel", but also referred to as a tone bar, [1] slide bar, [2] guitar slide, slide, [3] or bottleneck, [4] is a smooth hard object which is pressed against strings to play steel guitar and is itself the origin of the name "steel guitar". [5]
While most touring professional pedal steel guitarists tend to either carry a double neck guitar (D-10 with E9 and C6 tunings) on the road, many have found that a single neck 10 string pedal steel guitar with the E9 tuning is enough for their needs. Some pro players have chosen a 12- or 14-string pedal steel for touring and recording sessions.
Guitar Town [8] Pedal steel guitar 1987 Exit 0 [8] Steel guitar, vocals 1988 Copperhead Road [8] Pedal steel, lap steel, dobro R.E.M. Green [8] Pedal steel guitar 1990 Steve Earle The Hard Way [1] Mullins pedal steel guitar 1991 Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator: Steel guitar, electric and acoustic guitars, six-string bass 1995 Bob Dylan: Unplugged
Guitarists who have a specific recording attributed to their playing the pedal steel guitar. Pages in category "Pedal steel guitarists" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total.
Bill Finnegan died of Parkinson's disease at his home in Sag Harbor, New York, on November 28, 2008, at the age of 80. [1] He and his wife, Patricia Finnegan, had four children – Michael Finnegan, a political reporter for the Los Angeles Times; William Finnegan, a staff reporter for The New Yorker; Colleen, a doctor; and Kevin, a labor lawyer.