Slide comparison

RickLucas

A quick comparison of several different slides. On electric:

On reso:


I prefer the heavier ones on the reso and the red glass or ceramic on the electric. What say you?

digitalkettle

If you edit a post with vid links in it, they break and just show up as images!

McSwaggerty

For me - Heavy Brass on Reso and Acoustic.
Glass on Electric

merlin

I have a bone one made by Bonerz that is my favourite but they wear out. Second is a ceramic.

I also have a couple of metal ones for lap steel and a special Eezee slide made by Basil Henriques. Best for pedal which I don't play anymore.... 

edenfield99

I have a heavy steel one for reso
Glass or brass on acoustic and electric  

Sassafras

Ceramic on everything for me.

RickLucas

Links again:

Lewy

On electric I preferred the second one you used. There was a nice bit of throatiness about it where the others were quite smooth.

On the reso clips, I was kind of distracted by the fact that you play very nicely, and it's a tricone, yet there wasn't much sustain happening at all with any of the slides. Made me wonder if there's something up with the guitar. A tricone in good hands should sing a bit more than that? Hopefully you take that in the spirit in which it was intended...it's definitely not how you're playing!

earwighoney

Lewy said:

On the reso clips, I was kind of distracted by the fact that you play very nicely, and it's a tricone, yet there wasn't much sustain happening at all with any of the slides.

Old strings? I find there can be no sustain playing slide with older strings.

I enjoyed the videos though. Thanks for posting @RickLucas

McSwaggerty said:

For me - Heavy Brass on Reso and Acoustic.
Glass on Electric

I've got a few slides but I also use a Rockslide brass slide for acoustic guitar and a Diamond Bottleneck for electric.

RickLucas

Thanks for the kind comments. The strings are quite old, to be honest...

Lewy

RickLucas said:

Thanks for the kind comments. The strings are quite old, to be honest...

That'll be it then! Again, nice playing.