The Return of the Steel Guitar

Lately we've been experimenting quite a lot in the studio. Sometimes technology has been used in order to 'get that sound'. Other times empiric solutions have been implemented. This time around though, the constant quest for THAT TONE took us to more familiar territories.
On day 4 I borrowed a steel guitar from my friend Bob Benge, as mine is in desperate need of love and care from my luthier.
After a few failed attempts it appeared clear to me that the tone I had in mind could only be achieved by using steel picks on thumb, index and middle fingers.
Once the guitar part had been cut we doubled it with a piano doing exactly the same notes. We then mixed the two instruments and then Stuart, our great producer/sound engineer, added a bit of this, reduced a bit of that, eq-ed the whole thing and then ...well you got the picture, until it all sounded like it ought do.
The result left us very satisfied with our session, and slightly amazed that, after all, the steel guitar (and all that goes with it) sounds very much like ...a steel guitar! A very good one, if I may say so