I have tried to emulate steel in the past with a slide..... nope.... doesn't work, since the 6 strings on the guitar don't have pedals to change them....and generally the steel is tuned differently anyway.

An older glass Bayer aspirin bottle... (or is it Excedrin?) was used by many slide players. I have several but don't really spend much time playing slide.

I also have set down on a steel several times and even with coaching and some patient instruction, was not able to produce pleasing tones..... the real player smiled and sadly shook his head.... I recon that if I had one to mess with I could get the hang of it, but no....trying to fake it on a guitar isn't the best solution.

Have you tried the real tracks in Real band? Using envelopes and rendering the tracks a few times, it may be possible to get something close. That's my preferred method these days.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 09/03/13 02:26 PM.
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