His long and winding road with the steel has afforded him to gain real-world experience, rub elbows with Music City mainstays, and do historical research time to identify the model that best fit his needs as a musician. Eventually, Schneider’s dream steel took the shape of this 1967 Emmons Push/Pull cut-tail model (serial #1185D). He used this on Margo Price’s first two records (Midwest Farmer’s Daughter and All American Made) and subsequent tours, William Tyler’s Modern Country, and Orville Peck’s forthcoming EP Show Pony. The top 10-string is an E9 neck and the bottom 10-string is a C6 neck. For both necks he uses D’Addario NYXL Pedal-Steel strings. He slides around the necks with a heavy bar made for 12-string steel guitars that was gifted to him by Steel Guitar Hall of Famer and Nashville stalwart Bobby Seymour. As for picks, he plucks with a set of old National fingerpicks.
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Miller’s Collings runs into a Grace Design ALiX preamp, which helps him fine-tune his EQ and level out pickups with varying output when he switches instruments. For reverb, sometimes he’ll tap the 
