Introduction to "Ask Bud!"

Bud Carter's purpose in offering this column is:

to provide you, the websurfer, a place where you can get your questions answered about any pedal steel guitar, without endorsing any particular brand or product. Bud welcomes and considers all questions. Please include your e-mail address so that we can contact you for clarification. We welcome your feedback about this column via Email at psgbuilder@steelguitar.com

Here are the topics you may read about at this time:

• AC Hum Reduction: Double Neck
• Cabinet Drop: Causes and Solutions
• Cords and Cables
• Detuning: Environmental Detuning
• Detuning: Physical Detuning
• Fretboard Design
• Half Stops, Tunable Splits, and Compensators
• Harmonics: Causes of Undertone
• Harmonics: Don't Sustain
• Lacquer vs. Mica: Sound Differences
• Lubrication
• MSA Tuning
• Necks: Differences in Sound
• Pickups: Differences Between
• Pickups: MSA Replacement and Improvement
• Pickups: Mounting Variations and Affects
• Pickups: Single Coil, Becomes Microphonic (Body noise through amp on older steel)
• Pickups: Wound to Certain Resistances
• Pitch: Accurate Return to
• Return Springs: Adjustments to
• Rickenbacker: Sound Problem
• Rollers in Keyhead: Sound Differences
• Sound and Tone Differences
• Splits: Adding Easily
• String Breakage
• String Sizzle and Shrillness
• Tunings: Changes and Experimentation
• Tunings: E9/B6 on Double-Raise, Double-Lower 12-String
• Tunings: Tempering
• Twin-Steel Effect Simulation
• Weight: Too Light?

Updated: October 4, 1999

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