Pedal Steel Guitar Tuning Frequencies

Hi all i would like to know what the base frequencies are for each of the strings on the e9 tuning.

Pedal steel guitar tuning frequencies. I can find charts that list the frequencies for each note c0 d but i don t have a piano readily handy to figure out which octave each of the strings are in this scheme. Most modern pedal steel guitars use all pull changers and so this lesson will assume you have to tune the open strings first. Shobud the professional d 10 national new yorker gwin custom tube amp thru 15 sica neo speaker. I think the wound string has a more distinctive tone.

However if the lower end frequencies of the pedal steel sound muddied boomy or weird while the highs sound great then eqing the low end can make the steel track sound much better combine this with the already great sounding highs and we now have a solidly pleasant pedal steel sound that we can move forward with. This is a fancy word for what your ear wants to hear. I also see that boss makes a bass eq pedal with a 20 hz boost. The pedal steel guitar is usually tuned to either e9 or c6 or both in the case of a double neck but there are other tunings.

Older steel guitars as well as some student models required tuning some of the pedals and knee levers first and then the open strings. The guitar string frequency is the number of times a string displaces by its maximum amplitude one full cycle in one second after being struck. If you tune a steel guitar by ear using a tuning fork to get the open tonic note e in the case of e9 and striking harmonics at different frets to tune the other open strings and pedal pulls you will be using a system called just intonation. Note range of the steel guitar.

I ve been using a wound 026 like lloyd and it won t allow me to obtain a split tuning because of the physics involved. I ll try cutting the highs on the eq pedal. The e9 neck of the steel guitar has a range that starts with an open string b that is 2 b s below middle c. Maybe the v sam will help with my own tuning.

The tuning of the open strings more or less makes up the notes of the e9 chord an e9 chord is spelled e g b d f. I ll admit it is a little weird but hey people do say that the steel is the sound angels make so i think it fits. The most common pedal steel guitars have 10 strings followed by universal 12 string instruments which purport to offer the same versatility as a double 10 string instrument 8 stringed instruments were very popular in the 1950s and 1960s they are less popular nowadays. It sounds great by itself.

So this tuning is called the e9 tuning. On guitars with a split tuning feature on the 6th string it won t work unless you use a plain string. I also wanted the exact frequencies to be able to make my own tuning for my steel and not be limited by the tempered ness of the standard tuner.