Guitar Pedals For Pedal Steel With Tim Marcus (Milkman Sound)

Pedal Steel is most known for country music, but today we're gonna explore how versatile it can be. I've invited my friend Tim Marcus creator of Milkman Sound to demonstrate how adding guitar pedals to the Pedal Steel can transform the instrument.
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[@samsmall2214]

Tim mentioned Sneaky Pete. Check out his work with the Flying Burrito Brothers (especially Gilded Palace of Sin). Not only is his playing superb, but he uses some great effects including some gnarly fuzz. "Christine's Tune" and "Wheels" immediately come to mind if you want shortcuts to the effects, but really I'd recommend getting the album. The cover is phenomenal as well. Cheers!

[@SeattleScotty]

Link to the album on YT: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmjCZJShaLSgoa8

[@superorangeish]

The solo,by Sneaky pete on Jackson Brownes version of "Take it easy" is mind bending w/ phaser...

[@Ramenscooter]

Burrito brothers essentially used Sneaky Pete’s playing as the lead guitar.

[@Mistertbones]

I have to admit, the Metal Zone sounds great on a Pedal Steel.

[@simonf5928]

Guess he put his pedal *through* the metal, huh.

[@BooglyBoot]

Josh just drinking a half gallon of chocolate milk.

[@CodyAlushin]

Milkman, baby!

[@jhspedals]

yum

[@manysounds]

haha!

[@aliasdandavisofficial]

1) It's nice to see someone using a Metal Zone non-ironically. 2) Anderson Ericson whole milk kicks ass!

[@fillmorejives2284]

To be kind - era swans has a lot of really great atmospheric pedal steel parts on them. That's where I first learned about the instrument tbh

[@iamhated1292]

6:26 "The Metal Zone is a shocker... sometimes" pure grace Josh ❤

[@dwightlewis3876]

Josh, I am a Sacred Steel Guitar player in Huntsville, AL...I must say I appreciate the exposure...Dwight

[@michaelthimes]

Alright - here is a fun story. in Spring 2003 I was a music intern for SNL and helped the music coordinator manage the Dixie Chicks rehearsal and live process. Basically I was the kid that got all the backing musicians lunch and made sure they had their paperwork filled out. I was a loud brash guitar player more familiar with punk, classic rock and metal and really wasn't into country so I wasn't even paying attention to the slide guitar until the first rehearsal and Lloyd maines steps on what I discovered was a SANSAMP GT on the floor and produced this GOD-Like overdriven sound. it was like the sound of a giant semi-truck downshifting and passing at the same time - so deep and guttural. It changed my life because it was that sound that carried me into pedal distortion and overdrive - where previously I just played amp distortion. here is video of another time they played Sin Wagon on that same tour - which is the song he did this trick on. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p32vmGRqppdqrKs

[@garrygarza4029]

When you show up to you’re country gig with a metal zone on the pedal steel

[@Guitar_Ted]

Gotta admit- I saw the video title and thought, "This is gonna be lame". I was sooooooo wrong! Love this stuff. I never ever considered that steel guitar could be this cool. Thanks for expanding my mind a bit.

[@jhspedals]

Thanks for watching!!!

[@simonfreer9076]

Same thought process here Ted.

[@drofnoise555]

check out a band called "pink floyd"

[@buchtravis123]

Tim Marcus is so awesome. Submitted a question to the general dropbox on the milkman website when buying an amp thinking he would have some intern or shop buddy checking on those, and got a nice email back from the man himself. Truly a one-man operation, and a very humble and talented guy.

[@maxonmendel5757]

Seeing Josh playing bass is so special

[@TauRiOneill]

Garcia is my favorite steel player. His work on American Beauty, Workingman’s Dead, NRPS, and Teach Your Children, The Wheel (Garcia solo) are amazing. I like it with really deep Fender Twin reverb and some echo/delay.

[@burmanon11]

I used to be a king, laughing, eep hour etc

[@JoshYenne]

If you like the instrument keep diving.. even Jerry would have NEVER said he was a real steel player.. I mean he was jerry so he was musical on EVERYTHING but... wow.. if you like his playing keep looking as Jerry's playing was great but with a very basic vocab.. but great.

[@Valkjosandi]

think hes talking about "It might be a one shot deal" on Waka/Jawaka. Such an amazing solo. Took me awhile to figure out I coudn't play it on a guitar

[@photog_matt_elder]

Greg Leisz, Greg Leisz, and more Greg Leisz! Greg plays on several albums with Bill Frisell, Ryan Adams, Beck, John Mayer, Lucinda Williams, and Ray Lamontagne's "Gossip in The Grain."

[@Mistertbones]

I saw Greg Leisz play live with Jackson Browne a couple of years ago. Greg can play anything! Regular guitar, lap steel, pedal steel, Weissenborn, he can do it all!

[@TheEMOkid66613]

UNIVOX BASS SPOTTED - and the super fuzz woot!!

[@brettlanier4796]

Nice one guys! Get ahold of Buddy Emmons Live in Denver if you can. It's from '76 and he goes way into effects during the show then talks about the fx pedals he's using in a Q&A afterwards. He uses delays for a rhythmic multiplying thing, an MXR harmonizer, all kinds of stuff. Still sounds futuristic 40+ years later.

[@milkmansound]

Hi Brett!

[@nickwilson9210]

I can’t get over how full it makes the band it’s like he is the Edge of slide. Very cool. I need some chocolate milk now

[@almalfacini3035]

this is awesome... Cheers from Brazil !

[@johannesdesmedt5367]

This is the first time I am that captivated by Josh's playing. Great rhythm section!

[@sadiqmohamed681]

That was fun! I love Pretzel Logic. I've also recently discovered Larkin Poe who play blues with Megan Lowell on lap steel with a lot of pedals!

[@SeattleScotty]

I have always loved the pedal steel - I really dug 'Dark side of the bitcoin' - Tim really nailed that Gilmour sound and style. That dude has some serious talent!

[@ryanhernandez6002]

Love this! As a pedal steel player (who also plays Williams guitars and Milkman amps:) Tim has been my go to guy for advice when buying my steel and pairing it with just the right amp and fix. He mentioned Greg Leisz who is my steel idol. That guy has played with Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne but then his steel play is all over newer records, my favorite was Bon Ivers self titled album. Steel all over it. Another steel hero of mine will always be Eric Heywood, he toured with Ray Lamontagne and I got the pleasure of listening to him and Greg live. 2 steels. Amazing!

[@thecounty-line]

Favorite episode to date!

[@bengalvin9932]

i remember hearing the opening to the eric clapton mtv unplugged version of running on faith and it was simple but i just fell in love with that sound and have always loved it since.

[@coronadofishingclub3478]

Zappa-One Shot Deal. Thanks for reminding me of that, I haven’t heard it for 30 years!

[@livinthesound5182]

great performans, great to see and hear you play!!!!

[@dangledstash]

Shout out for the Anderson Erickson whole milk!!!! That’s my life. I live in Des Moines, IA and that is hands down the best dairy in the nation!

[@charlesandrewmoore8699]

*Ya'll McCartney*! This is some fantastic programming (once again), guys! Love the milk container cameos in every frame. I love the old Slim Whitman catalog for pedal steel X yodeling = WIN

[@justincox1685]

that Ibanez delay looks awesome...I love those old, massive pedals even though they're impractical as far as the space they take up.

[@triplelindys]

John Neff in his time with Drive By Truckers. Incredible slide player.

[@clangocyclotron]

Hugely underrated episode.

[@thomasprice3887]

Peter Gilmour & Steve Howe had some fantastic lap/pedal steel guitar stuff during the early parts of Pink Floyd & Yes. Also, "Y'all McCartney" was brilliant. Would definitely jam that on Spotify.

[@mariodriessen9740]

Peter's brother David wasn't too bad either.

[@andrewt248]

Mario Driessen SAVAGE.

[@thomasprice3887]

Wow. I just realized a massive typo. That should've been David Gilmour. I guess I get several points for 0 double checking >_>

[@SeanTheOutsider]

All time favorite pedal steel song is "Squeeze" by Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Just an absolute jam. That man changed my opinion of the pedal steel forever

[@daddarioandco]

Love us some pedal steel. Great vid, nailed it.

[@DavidDyte1969]

David Gilmour on One of These Days: some of my favorite steel guitar. Oh my yes. Also a bunch of the tracks on I, Flathead by Ry Cooder.

[@howardanderson3061]

I've always loved the Pedal Steel and tried emulate it when playing slide. But there's nothing like the real thing and Tim is the real thing. My favorite effect for the pedal steel, all of them, for real. In the right hands they all work. There is a Trailer Park Boys Chrismas episode that features the pedal steel, And It so captivating, I'll find out who it is and edit my post. Thanks Josh and Tim for such a cool segment

[@howardanderson3061]

Trailer Park Boys pedal steel players name is John Johncampbelljohn

[@josephmann6675]

That was a great jam. I played it for my kids 8-18. Damn I’m getting old as fuck!? It matters none, the kids liked it too. There’s hope for the future - rock on.

[@artofsoundcc]

Check out Four Giants of Swing with Joe Venuti, Jethro Burns, Curly Chalker on steel, and Eldon Shamblin.

[@jmathews4765]

My best memory of hearing a pedal steel guitar out of country was in ATV Off-road Fury 3 with Robert Randolph and the Family Band in the track Squeeze.

[@oldguysguitarvlog183]

OMG totally!!!!!

[@maxonmendel5757]

Great game

[@ethanwillis6354]

One of the best videos yet! I really enjoy the diversity you explore with your channel. 👊🏼

[@zorkwhouse8125]

That "Ya'll McCartney" section I swear sounded like it could be something off the Flaming Lips album "The Soft Bulletin" (I think that's the album name). Either way - its very close to the sound. I think the similar sound is right there on the first track of that album. Really cool to see these demonstrations. The sounds of pedal steel, lap steel and then just slide period have to be my favorite guitar and guitar-esque sounds. I'm an off and on country fan, but I listen to all genres of music and I think pedal steel guitar (or the other variants) can make music of any genre more expressive or heart-tuggingly beautiful. Good stuff. :-)

[@maggieo]

Pedal steel + chugging chocolate milk from the jug = ARE WE RELATED?!?!? There's a bunch of Afro-Beat stuff that has some funky pedal steel in it. I can't remember the exact artists, but the "Afro-Beat Airways" compilation has some gems on it, IIRC.

[@Astuddedbelt]

Just out of curiosity were you thinking of King Sunny Ade?

[@CodyAlushin]

It took me a lot longer than it should have to get why there was a carton of milk there.

[@jhspedals]

lol

[@davetbassbos]

True, pedal steel has been on a bunch of top 40 and classic rock since the 70's, not just country. Interesting ideas with the pedals in this video. I could see a pedal steel, bass and drum trio playing in the prog/jam band scene.

[@davetbassbos]

Actually does anyone know of a band like that? I'd like to check them out.

[@yaanno]

what a cool episode :) love the humble little crumar synth in the background :)

[@williamsmothers8830]

Robert Randolph and the Family Band blew me away, too. As good as Tim Marcus' plays, the song titles may steal the show.

[@lance134679]

Nice jamming - something you don't see a lot of on this channel. Tim's a great pedal steel player, too.

[@trebleboost7]

Russ Freeman did some cool pedal steel work with Rippingtons.... Great episode.

[@williewilson9836]

I love my Milkman pedal amp 🥛 Tim is the man. Great episode nice playing lads!

[@drtomservo]

Anything with Speedy West, especially if Jimmy Bryant is on the record. :-)

[@felixlavallee7089]

love the steel guitar on Queens of the Stone Age records, tasty and adding so much texture. Troy Van Leeuwen and Dave Catching in the early days.

[@SpaceDisco1]

My favourite track with pedalsteel is probably 3‘s and 7‘s by Queens of the Stone Age. That lead riff is so glorious!

[@nikkilively3406]

Bought my first JHS pedal last week. Thanks to your videos. Morning Glory.

[@jhspedals]

Awesome! Thanks, and hope you love it!

[@nathanguilford2387]

Great steel guitar on CAKE tracks too. Greg Vincent is his name. "Mexico" comes to mind.

[@nedward5871]

How can you have a whole episode with a Univox SuperFuzz sitting there and not use it??? ARRGHH!!

[@landonpahl5855]

I love running steel through the warped vinyl.

[@calebspriggs6135]

so nuts! I've wanted to get into steel guitar for months now.

[@jhspedals]

Do it!

[@RSCphoto-Savannah]

The sound on “Dark Side” reminds me of Buddy Cage’s sound on Meet Me in the Morning, which I always assumed was his steel through a Rat. Must have been a fuzz of some sort.

[@peppyaitken]

dark side of the moon do you mean

[@peppyaitken]

Breathe in the air

[@dylanfan424]

Can’t talk about steel guitar without talking about Speedy West! I highly recommend his stuff with Jimmy Bryant. Also Nels Cline has been know to play some out there lap steel.

[@scottallen9556]

I forgot to mention how much I've loved the crazy lap steel work of Queens of the Stone Age. Loved all the pieces you guys played.

[@kerryhutcherson4269]

Thanks for making this video and promoting use of pedal steel that breaks the stereotypical mold. Pedal steel guitar is most recognizable when it is used in its traditional setting in Hawaiian or Country music, but it has so many other applications. After playing guitar for about 15 years I finally made the plunge into the world of pedal steel. I've been there for about 10 years now, and every time I sit down at the instrument I find new ways to use it in all kinds of music. Here is my rig: Sierra Timberwolf pedal steel guitar -> Lovepedal Tone Bender -> Origin Slide Rig -> Ernie Ball MVP -> TC Polytune Mini (outside of signal path) -> Hudson Electronics Broadcast -> Wampler Tumnus mini -> TC Viscous Vibe -> Keeley Memphis Sun -> TC Hall of Fame Reverb -> Supro Dual Tone (I have a footswitch for the amp's tremolo). I use an E-Bow on the steel sometimes, too. Pretty much every steel player uses a volume pedal and reverb or a delay, but I find that fuzzes, overdrives, boosts, compressors, tremolos, phasers/flangers/vibes, and synthesizers can all work well with the pedal steel. I wish there were more pedal steel players talking about how they use effects with the instrument, and I appreciate what JHS and Milkman are doing to promote pedal steel in all genres of music.

[@kerryhutcherson4269]

Also check out Carl Broemel (of My Morning Jacket) for an example of a guitarist who plays both six-string guitar and pedal steel. He uses a bunch of effects for both and he sounds great.

[@scottallen9556]

Milkman amps are now the first thing I think of when lap steel comes up. Perfect

[@0074craig]

LOve it all ! MOre More More and Come on ! Bring on the Steel Guitar ! Lets Go ! Thats stuff is Wicked!

[@mikebacciarini5400]

My PSG playing has been heavily influenced by Poco’ early stuff. Rusty’s steel work was overwhelming and I thought “Wow, a pedal steel in a rock band!” But when I first saw them in November of 1970 at the Filmore West, Rusty was smokin’ on the steel, but what I often heard was a Hammond B3. “How the heck does he do that?” Yes there was a Showman powered 122 stacked up behind him with the Twin and another Showman cab, but it wasn’t just the sound of an instrument through a Leslie….. it was something more. By 1972 I could stand it no more. I bought an MSA Semi-Classic 4+2 S10 and a bar, and then spent about eight months listening to Poco records and trying to get it to do something musical. Had no amp, just a flat pick, and I’d stick my ear down near it as I finally figured out that 3,4,5,6 would give me a major chord, and that A and B would change that to the IV chord, etc. (Where was the Forum and the Internet when I needed them?). 1974 and ’75 found me hooked up with the Christian country-rock band “Hallelujah!” for two US tours. A guitar-driven band doing original Poco-ish and Eagles-like tunes, we had no keys. It was then that I took a stab at the B3 thing with a Maestro Phase Shifter and a wah pedal (I had seen Rusty use a wah to emulate the drawbars on a B3). Also got inside the phase shifter and tweaked on a couple of little trim-pots that gave the pitch-shift a bit more depth and more of the doppler effect sound. Years went by, I cut my hair, got a real job and the steel gathered dust until it was eventually sold. Fast forward to 2018 and I was going to sell off the sound company, semi-retire and get back into playing music before I got too old (to make my fingers move). Realizing that guitar players are a dime-a-dozen, my best chance to get into a band was on pedal steel. The wheels began to churn upstairs and a month before I even got another steel, I had designed an FX rack to do just what I wanted. A hefty order from Sweetwater arrived about a week before I even made the trip to Jim Palenscar’s Steel Guitars of North County. Came home with a super clean MCI Arlington S10 3+5 (black of course) and sure enough, it started coming back to me. Now for the fun part…. Wanting to be able to get the B3 thing on demand as well as use the steel in more traditional ways, I planned out my FX with two full-time parallel paths. Both the “steel” path and the “B3” path would be simultaneously fed by the steel, and then an A/B switch would select which was output to the amp and house. This let me switch real-time between the two in a song such as Poco’s Good Feelin’ to Know. As for the “voice” of a B3, I settled on two components besides the steel itself. The first was an Electro-Harmonix B9 pedal, generally set on the “Fat and Full” setting with the Key Click and Modulation turned off. This provides the overtone-rich sound of an organ. It also uses compression to emulate the sustain of an organ. The second thing was to simulate the drawbars of a B3. Rusty had used a wah pedal effectively, so that’s where I started. I realized after a while (at least in the classic rock type material I was doing) that it would change from mellow to bright, but being a band-pass filter, it omitted all the other frequencies that it wasn’t passing. In other words, when I would go from mellow to bright, all the bottom would drop out. Now I know on the real B3 you can have any combination of low, middle and high registers by pulling the stops, but I was simply looking for a change from lows and mids only, to full range, so I wired up another VPJR to act as a “tone” circuit (mellow/full-range). Now a Leslie effect has been discussed to death already, but I settled on the Neo Ventillator II with an Ashby half-moon speed switch. I attached the half-moon with Velcro on the psg’s rear apron near my right hand so I can change speeds while holding a chord, and my right foot is free to “pull the stops” with the tone pedal. A friend of mine has a B3 and a 122 so I had him help me tweak the controls on the Vent until it sounds really darn good. Some odds and ends….. There is also the matter of not doing “steel things” while trying to sound like a B3: no left hand vibrato, no bending with pedals or sliding the bar, no need to keep right foot on the volume pedal as the EHX B9 does the sustaining. Also thinking more percussive like on a keyboard helps. I’m only able to do some simple single-note things besides the full chords / pads, but to think like a keyboard player or learn some parts note for note. Building my FX rack was a ton of fun (almost as much fun as using it). I had a 6-space rack available so I started by putting wheels on one lid (now officially the “bottom”). I built in the Strymon power supplies as well as a cooling fan for those summertime outdoor gigs, and there was room below the FX pedal “deck” to store the pre-cabled volume and tone pedals as well as a sandwich or two. The PSG goes directly to a Korg Pitch Black tuner, then a JHS buffer/splitter that feeds the two chains. The “normal steel” FX chain includes an EHX Mel9, an Ibanez mini Tube Screamer, an MXR Phase 95, then a TC Electronics Hall of Fame 2 ‘verb. The “B3” chain starts with the EHX B9 then the Neo Vent into a TC Electronics Hall of Fame mini. The Boss AB-2 switch silently selects which chain goes to an internal Radial DI for an XLR out as well as the ¼” to the amp (currently a Fender Rumble 200 1-15). The Boss switch only accepted batteries, so I retrofitted a 9v power jack with resistor so as to not have to deal with battery. I’m using a stereo 25K volume pedal that places one circuit between the buffer and the steel chain, and the other half (and the “tone” pedal) between the B9 and the Neo Vent. This is so as to control the “organ” volume post “organ voice” (B9 and wah), but before the “Leslie”. All in all, I’m very pleased with my setup. Everyone has their own way of doing things , but it’s quick and easy for me to get the FX I need during a show. As Jerry said…. “what a long strange trip it’s been”.

[@definitelymiami7978]

amazing! i also got into steel guitar in NY when i lived there 10+ years ago. And i also got into it from Bob Hoffnar. He was my first teacher and he helped me find and by a Rains double neck steel guitar. I bought it from Gary Carpenter directly. Still have it and love it. I mainly make ambient music with it. Susan Alcorn is an amazing experimental steel guitar player that i highly recommend checking out. As well as Bob - his music is amazing!

[@definitelymiami7978]

and obviously Daniel Lanois is a genius. He's last album is all steel and slide.

[@adustypiano2449]

I used to think that pedal steel was just that slidy, twangy country thingy, but Christoph Hahn from Swans taught me that this thing can be the instrument of hell!

[@thebreakfastmenu]

Holy mother of mellotron, that Mel9 sounded amazing on slide

[@chess_ramone]

Going to the local music store with the data corrupter in the morning... I'll bring some leads in case they refuse me theirs once they discover my intentions. Only afterwords will I tell them about this very eye opening video.

[@tmitz73]

Great Video guys!!!

[@j_wah3084]

Welp. Josh sounds killer. And the drummer is just layin' back on that.

[@Haroldmikesizemore]

Josh, awesome episode! I’ve never been much of a steel player. But as a part time Lap Steel guy, I am big fan of fender reverb, might use a little blues driver mixed with a pedal you designed with your buddy Tim. The Milkman. On another note, I met sneaky Pete in Northern KY years ago when he was playing in a band with Garth Hudson from the “Band” on keys called Burrito Deluxe. He was a really nice guy. Interesting note he did stop action work for “The Empire Strikes Back” when he was not doing as much with music. He told me he only ever used 1 pedal steel in his whole career.

[@mattharrison4238]

I’ve been wanting a pedal steel for years, they are just so expensive, plus I’ve heard that you don’t just learn to play pedal steel, you learn how to work on them as well due to all the mechanical parts that tend to wear out/fall off and what have you. Despite all of that, I would recommend any young person that wants to be a working session player, take up pedal steel immediately, being from Nashville, I know that there is a need for more good reliable pedal steel players. Great content as always Josh, I’m gonna add pedal steel to my Reverb feed now. Thanks for that, 😆

[@jeffdixon847]

Matt Harrison there’s also a big difference between pedal steel players and guitarists who play pedal steel (I’m a humble member of the latter group). Pedal steel players think differently than guitarists. One significant mental hurdle moving to steel is that there is no standard setup. There are some general starting points, but every player has their own tunings and knee lever/pedal setups. And every real player is constantly evolving their setups.

[@bshipley]

Charlie Hunter’s “bing bing bing” has some fantastic pedal steel playing.

[@photog_matt_elder]

Really?!?! Who is playing pedal steel on the record?

[@bshipley]

@@photog_matt_elder According to Google, his name is Dave Phillips.

[@Sean-yd4mi]

Never imagined fuzz on a pedal steel in a million years...

[@jopestv1063]

hook one up 2 a RE-20 space echo & play w/the repeats & speed...like doing LSD w/out frying yer brain cells

[@thesoozeTJ]

This was amazing!!

[@Livelaughlimpbizkit]

Crazy, if I heard the more distorted/overdriven Riffs without the visuals I would’ve thought it was a synth

[@derbyd10]

When i started learning to play steel I used a Big Muff, FOX fuzz wah, Maestro 3 button phase shifter, moved away from all that for a long time as i became a player. Sneaky, Buddy Cage, & Rusty Young were influential. Now years later it’s an overdrive dejour, auto wah , RESO sim, and a Lexicon for all time based EFX, delays, rotary, chorus, phase, flange etc. There are some great and creative players out here today but to quote Herbie Wallace in 1985 , “ everyone wants to play like Buddy Emmons” and it’s still true. Also, I noticed the various milk containers too. Very cool

[@felixlavallee7089]

Daniel Lanois is a master at pedal steel, listen to his album Belladonna, just magnificient.

[@neilbarbu]

As a keyboard player, I was trying to focus to see which ones are in the background. I also dabble in lap steel with an old copper colored Harmony with a weird looking stainless steel nut that is circular and notched for the strings

[@JeanFrancoisDesrosiers]

Chugging milk... milk cartons everywhere: rock star debauchery.

[@CARDINAL701]

I see your milk jug of choice is Anderson-Erickson; I live in Iowa and the home town of Anderson Erickson Dairy ....so Bravo to you!!! As a pedal steel guitar player, I use reverb(BossRV-6), chorus(Boss), delay(Roland DE7), a resonator simulator pedal, and a Harmonist(Boss) but not very often. Attached to the guitar is a Goodrich Steel Driver which is an impedance matching box that also has a killer distortion in it. Thanks for doing something for us steel players!!!!!!!!

[@UkiMalefu]

Pedal steel, with a metal zone. Wow. ALL THE GAIN!!!

[@joseph-ow1hf]

Second David Gilmour. The pedal steel on 'Great Gig in the Sky' makes the song. And another vote for Daniel Lanois. (great producer also)

[@modernpizza]

"Hot Milk" by far the best track! I'm sure after being posted up for a year you're probably not going to see this but one of my favorite "modern" albums with a pedal steel is "Plays One Sound and Others" by the band Knife in the Water.

[@dcasey5573]

Grateful Dead- Workingman’s Dead is a fantastic album with a good bit of steel guitar. CSN&Y- SO Far is another good album with steel guitar.

[@SwirlyWhirlyXYZ]

Susan Alcorn is an amazing steel player, country roots but very forward thinking jazz/improv/etc...

[@danielguitar5150]

episode on Multi Effects that don't suck would be awesome! Maybe even show us how to integrate that style of tech with analog pedals

[@GenericHipsterBestie]

Umm loved this, and y'all need to check out Larkin Poe for some delicious lap steel goodness!

[@davidmiranda7937]

M.Ward "Paul's song" has a really great pedal steel solo in it.

[@milkmansound]

Yeah thats Paul Brainard from Portland, OR - very inspiring steel guitar playing

[@davidmiranda7937]

@@milkmansound does he still do session work?

[@aquastink]

Thank You For This!!!

[@firebird77]

Coolest episode yet Josh!!!!

[@hunterthompson2206]

This blew my mind, especially the "Y'all McCarteny" with the EH Mel pedal. If you like steel guitar, check out Friends of Dean Martinez - lots of great steel guitar but not a country/western song anywhere.

[@bengalvin9932]

HEY JHS! 2:50 that vibe sound from the jhs pedal is soooooo thick and chewy very very nice!!!! i know this was not an add for that pedal BUT i am going to buy one!

[@jhspedals]

Nice! Thanks!!

[@openspace8709]

Josh! Love the episode on pedal steel! I play the instrument myself. My favorite pedals: the sarno freeloader variable load/buffer. The pigtronix philosophers tone micro and the tighty Whitey for parallel compression (they are tied for top spot, ATM). For dirt I stack a sarno earth drive and a Durham mucho boosto both set very low. Delay is an MXR carbon copy bright. Reverb is a hardwire digital reverb (digitech). I’d like to hear your thoughts on pigtronix pedals. I love the philosopher’s tone germanium on guitar, and their key master is pretty amazing. Also, I’ve loved every Durham pedal I’ve tried. Take care!

[@brandonbernhard491]

That unicorn, and metal zone sounded pretty good.

[@chrisjohnstone6164]

awesome sounds!

[@jjrobiso]

Man, steel guitar. Love it. My grandpa modded them back in the day. Gave me one before he passed but it was stolen a couple years ago! The mel9 is insane! Sounds so ballad-ish. And the unicorn on a steel! Sounded so good. Fresh sounds coming out of the pedal steel would make my grandpa smile.

[@jhspedals]

Oh no! That's terrible, man :(

[@jjrobiso]

JHS Pedals I’ll get another one eventually and get back on the seat and have some fun with pedals now too. Awesome topic to tackle for your vlog!

[@jhspedals]

Way to be! I love that you're so positive :)

[@jonlohrenz5446]

Milk was a GOOD choice.

[@bobconklin9250]

Eric Heywood is the secret weapon on all the great Son Volt albums.