When I was at the Indy show last weekend, I happened to meet a fellow steel player who lived not five miles from me. He told me the story of seeing Lloyd Green in concert back in the mid-1970s and wanted to play just like him....so much so that he went to the stage after the show and wrote down his exact amp settings from the Session 400 he was playing.....his intent was to buy the same exact setup that Lloyd had. The guy still had the piece of paper he wrote the settings down on with him in his wallet!

I'll post the settings in a second. The interesting part of the story, as he told it, was that the local music store held a contest and the winner would receive a free pack-a-seat. Well, this indivual won the seat....but it wasn't just ANY seat....he won the seat that Lloyd used to play his concert. The fellow still has the seat, and today plays a Sho-Bud LDG through a Session 400. Interesting!!!

Anyhow, here are Lloyd's settings circa the mid-1970s:

Volume: 7
Presence: 4
Treble: 7
Mid: 3
Shift: 10
Bass: 10
Reverb: 4
Sensitivity: 4

For what it's worth, I feel the following settings are the best to my ears:

Volume: 5
Presence: 7.5
Treble: 6
Mid: 3
Shift: 7
Bass: 10
Reverb: 4
Sensitivity: 5 - 10

Joe

[This message was edited by Joe Alterio on 16 May 2005 at 07:54 AM.]

Just do a search under electronics.

Anyone else tried them?

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You could not stand to be on the same block with my mid 70s session turned up to 7. Thats loud!

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Joe, the two lists of settings you gave illustrate one thing quite well, a sort of pet "peave" of mine. When players have their bass controls (or any tone controls, for that matter) "maxed-out", it shows their amps are deficient in that particular area.

Few amps have ample bass response.

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