From classic Fender amp sounds to modern designs voiced for specific styles (i.e., metal), it’s just like having several amps in one.įor convenient personal listening at any time that won’t bring the house down on anyone else within earshot, this amp features a headphone output jack. This amplifier features digital amplifier modeling encompassing a variety of amp types old and new, U.S. Includes Footswitch For Channel Select and FX On/Off.1/8” auxiliary input and headphone output jacks.Different amp voicings and distortion types.Reverb, delay/echo, chorus, tremolo, Vibratone and other effects.Dual 12” Fender Special Design speakers.What to think of the time tested and immensely sought after ’59 if you’re in need of a vintage voiced, PAF style pickup? Or if you’re in need of a more nasty tone than the ’59, but with a sweeter top end, the Pearly Gates? So many great choices, so many great tones. There are many humbuckers available for your lapsteel guitar, frankly too many to list! But some great choices are readily available. In fact, there’s an amazing article written about it. You can hear how a lapsteel and the Sadducer work together in this clip:ĭ-Tar offers so many options, you can write an entire article about the D-Tar. There are a few options available to ‘electrify’ a lapsteel, for example the D-Tar Sadducer, which is an under-the-saddle transducer. Don’t believe me? Just take a look…ĭTar is a sister company of Seymour Duncan. Since Seymour Duncan also makes pickups for acoustic guitars it’s not difficult to imagine someone sticking one of those pickups in an acoustic slide guitar! Just as these pickups work miracles with acoustic guitars, slide guitars can be amplified very naturally with any of Seymour Duncan’s acoustic guitar pickups. In a slide guitar, the results are very usable. This is an interesting choice a strat pickup in a slide guitar! The SS元 Hot for Strat is a powerful, strong pickup and has the raunchyness of a p90 while maintaining the clarity of a Fender-style single coil. A lot less raunchy than either a p90 or Tele pickup, but for some styles and needs, very useful. But the tone is amazing! The Charlie Christian pickup will yield a smooth, clear tone but with so much sweetness, it’s uncanny. So if you want a period correct pickup, with all the historically correct appointments you should and could expect from a pickup, this pickup is the perfect choice.Īh, the Charlie Christian… Elusive, exclusive, exotic this pickup in it’s ‘Swingster’ mount could fit a p90 rout (perhaps with a slight modification if you’re unlucky). In the Antiquity-series of pickups we have a dedicated lapsteel pickup too! This pickup is a bit less twangy than the usual tele lead pickup and will offer you a clean, chimey tone but with enough power in the low end for the pickup to not sound harsh. So, if you want a lot of twang in your slide tone, take the Broadcaster pickup it’s twangy yet sweet, it’s not hot but has enough balls to give you the power in the low end…
Some of the first mass produced electric slide guitars, lapsteels and pedal steels, were made by Leo Fender in the 1940s and the pickup used was, basically, a tele pickup (but with a different baseplate). Some p90s are of course hotter than others, but my personal favorite is Vintage Soapbar, or even the Antiquity p90 for when I’m in a ‘vintage correct’ mood! Fit a p90 in your lapsteel and you’ll be rewarded with a sweet yet raunchy tone. Often, they look like a p90 but they don’t sound that nice. Some lapsteel guitars are fitted with a p90-ish kinda pickup. So… Here’s my low-down of my favorite pickups for a lapsteel guitar. Yet, electric slide-guitars are also in the plenty and from what I’m seeing, most of those aren’t really equipped with pickups good enough to fully capture the amazing tones of the instrument.
There are a couple of acoustic slide-guitars, like the Weissenborn (with its unique hollow neck construction) as well as the dobro or any other resonator guitar. Lapsteel guitars, or simply lapsteels, are instruments that are a bit like a regular guitar but with the action quite a bit higher so your slide doesn’t hit the frets all the time.
Which is perhaps striking, since that guitar was preceded and followed by ‘electrified’ lapsteel guitars. After all, the first real electric guitar is still open for debate, all though I guess we can all safely assume it’s the Slingerland Songster Model 401 by now. I suppose it’s easy to forget the origins or the modern electric guitar.
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