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I recently bought a Fractal FM3 modeller/effects unit, and have been having great fun exploring the possibilities. In order to avoid getting 'option paralysis', I have been trying stuff on the FM3 then experimenting using the patches I have created in song creation. This tune ...

This is a slide show of a walk myself, Janice, (my wife), and youngest son Rowan discovered last year near the town of Alva in Clackmannanshire in Scotland. It was a lovely walk with scenic views, interesting wildlife and a cave known locally as smugglers cave. We all took pic ...

As pointed out by Inverross9019, my original description of this tune was incorrect. My thanks to him/her for the info supplied. I have copied his info as below. Dark Island was originally an instrumental, originally entitled Dr Mackay's Farewell To Creagorry. Iain Maclachlan ...

Near Markinch in Fife there is a village called Star, on the outskirts of Star there is an area called Star Moss. This is a natural wildlife protected area and is a small part of Fife that has not been drained/cultivated and remains as it has been for centuries. A lot of Fife ...

This is the third part of a 15 minute noodling session I recorded after converting my Pedal Steel tuning from Universal to Extended E9. I was trying out some of the changes I made to my copedent and hooked up the steel through a series of effects pedals to create an ambient so ...

This is the second part of a 15 minute noodling session I recorded after converting my Pedal Steel tuning from Universal to Extended E9. I was trying out some of the changes I made to my copedent and hooked up the steel through a series of effects pedals to create an ambient s ...

This is the first part of a 15 minute noodling session I recorded after converting my Pedal Steel tuning from Universal to Extended E9. I was trying out some of the changes I made to my copedent and hooked up the steel through a series of effects pedals to create an ambient so ...

This is a piece I more or less improvised and developed, it's not so much SlowHand as ChilledHand. Difficult to define a genre that describes it, I have settled on Embellished Improvisation™©. It features a Pedal Steel patch I created for my Line 6 HX Stomp XL which also u ...

This is a cover of the Stones song No Expectations. I put this together with my lifetime friend Brian Strachan who plays the rhythm guitar, I'm playing my Weissenborn acoustic slide guitar, bass, drums and the vocal.

This is my version of Albatross, all guitar parts were played on Pedal Steel Guitar. The background video was shot at Clachan Sands in North Uist in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, a truly amazing place. The sands there are formed from sea shells that have broken up over thousan ...

This is a video I recorded a few years ago. I played some pedal steel backing and a wee solo onto one of my favourite tracks by the American band Vetiver, the track being a cover of the song - I Must Be In a Goodplace Now - originally written and recorded by Bobby Charles. Th ...

This is my version of Weightless from the Album Apollo, a soundtrack put together by Eno, Eno & Lanois for the film For All Mankind. This is one of my favourite pedal steel tracks from the album and have wanted to attempt a version of it for a long time. The thought of trying ...

In 2016 we took our camper van on a trip around the North Coast 500 Route in Scotland. This is an edited video of some of the video footage taken on the trip, To make it a little less boring than the - "holiday slide show" - I've put down a soundtrack of original music most ...

A Willie Nelson song played on pedal steel.

This is my first video using my new MSA U12 pedal steel and is a version of My Funny Valentine which I put together for the Brethren of The Bar CD put together by Danny Mitchell. Danny Scott plays the rhythm guitar on the backing, I play the rest. I used my new Panasonic Ca ...

A "Leftfield" version of the classic Christmas carol I put together for the SSGW November 2015. This is my own backing track.

A version of Tennessee Waltz I put together for the SSGW November 2015. The first verse is based on tab from Richard Burton, the 2nd verse on tab from Greg Cutshaw

This is a pedal steel version of one of my favourite tunes, Samba Pa Ti. Used to street busk this tune on 6 string guitar, I've wanted to try a pedal steel version for some time, so here it is! I'm using a Carter Uni 12 pedal steel for the melody line, for the backing I'm us ...

Shortened version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow played on a Carter U12 Pedal Steel. I'm experimenting with using both E9 and B6 on this version. Backing track courtesy of Jazzbacks.

This is a demo of a Electro-Harmonix Golden Throat 2 voice box, guitar effects pedal. This is the 3rd version of the original Golden Throat and was first manufactured in 1979. It uses the DU-60 driver. I've replaced the original tube with a length of industrial grade compress ...

This is a tune I wrote on the Weissenborn for my wife Janz. I used a Takamine Acoustic & a Palintino Electric Upright Bass to produce the backing tracks.

I wrote this tune on my Anderwood Weissenborn Acoustic Lap Steel.Added drums, bass & electric guitar and somehow it's transformed into a rock number! Decided to have some fun, so used a couple of cams when I was recording the parts and here's the result. Instruments used, A ...

Got this Anderwood Weissenborn Big Island Guitar for my Christmas and really enjoying learning how to play it. This is a very rough/approx rendition of Ed Gerhards arrangement of Rye Whisky, recorded acoustically via a small Sony stereo mike. Probably a bit ambitious to ...