Welcome to my web page. My name is George Wixon Jr. and I play pedal steel guitar. I purchased a Shobud Maverick some
30 years ago and learned to play "Steel Guitar Rag." I thought I sounded pretty good until I made the mistake of recording
it one day and it sounded more like a steel guitar catastrophy. Well, back then about the only teaching material available
was Winnie Winston's book. I think I tried "Red River Valley" for all of about a week and just barely got through it.
Well, enough of this so I put the guitar back in it's case and it sat there for the next 30 years. About a year and a half
ago for whatever reason I decided to take the Maverick out and try to learn. I still had the Winnie Winston book and
started practicing and before long I got hooked.
Now books are fine to learn from but I have to be shown. Lets see, where to go from here. Gee, you've got a computer and you have an internet connection, Brainstorm, type in "pedal steel guitar" and do a search. The world of steel guitar just opened up and what a wonderful world (song title) so to speak of was all right there staring me right in the face.
A few more searches and I found Jefferan music and the site is full of video instruction courses. After getting the first course, "Up From The Top", (excellent course) I wanted a guitar that had the changes that the second and third parts of the course showed how to use. I thought about adding the knee levers to the Maverick and then figuered it would cost more to do that then to seek out a guitar. More searching on the web and lots to choose from. I knew of the Shobud name but had no idea they went out of bussiness so that was out. At least I thought as you'll read later on. Well, I wonder if there are any forums out there? A few more searches and Bob's Steel Guitar Forum comes up.
Click Here for The Steel Guitar Forum
This is great and so much info to digest. After numerous readings of different posts and looking at price ranges as well and also knowing that in todays market, most all guitar manufacturers produce quality instruments, I decided to buy a Carter.
My Carter Guitars Out of the wood shed My Shobud Restoration Page Time Line Sound Page
I've created a page to help out anyone who needs it for connections to and from the computer soundcard.
The following pages should help you out with both Band In A Box and Power Tracks Pro Audio. All pages have screen shots of what to expect when going through the various screens and setups as well as descriptions.