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Topic: Location Of The Franklin Pedal |
Jeff Scott Brown
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O'Fallon Missouri, USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2012 8:52 am |
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I recently got a new GFI Ultra. When I ordered the thing I had the factory install 2 pedals in addition to the conventional A, B and C. I didn't know what I wanted to do with them but I wanted to have them installed so I would be all set when/if I wanted something beyond A, B and C in the future. I needed to have them configured to something initially even if I didn't know how/if I would use them so I had one setup as a Franklin pedal and the other setup to drop G# to G on 3 and raise G# to A on 6. I read somewhere about some folks using that and just needed to configure the pedal to do something so I went with that. All of that was just a placeholder until I decide what I want to do with those pedals.
I had the Franklin installed to the left of A so it is the farthest pedal to the left. To the right of that is A, B and C and to the right of that is the other pedal I described above. I had read that some folks put the Franklin to the left of A so that is what I did. Knowing that I can have all of this reconfigured meant I wasn't too concerned about it initially. Since then I have read in a couple of different places that some folks like to put the Franklin pedal to the right of C.
I haven't started finding ways to use the thing yet and I am curious to know what factors drive some people to put it on the left of A vs. the right of C. Are there common combinations that lead folks to use Franklin and A together? How about Franklin and C together?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
JSB
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Rick Barnhart
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2012 9:22 am
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You chose well, Jeff. Mines on pedal 4, but it's really a matter of choice and where ever it's placed, you'll get used to in time.
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Georg Sørtun
From:
Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 21 Nov 2012 9:55 am
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As I have a "half-Franklin" pedal - both B strings lowered to A (G# to F# is on the RKL lever), the left-of-A-pedal (zero) position works best on my PSGs.
Rolling from A pedal to "half-Franklin" pedal sweeps B strings from C# to A, or in reverse.
A split between A pedal and the "half-Franklin" pedal, can be tuned to perfect C, or Bb, depending on need/most-used and whether or not a B-to-Bb-lower-lever is present on a given PSG. |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 21 Nov 2012 3:18 pm
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in his course, Paul recommends position 0
Having the PF pedal left of pedal A is more practical, than havin' to jump from 4 to pedal A (1)
since the 2 work in conjunktion, having the 2 next to each other makes more sense
at least to me it does - (i'm just a parrot coppin' from others anyway)
i originally had it on 0 - moved it over to 4 - & it went back to 0 |
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2012 3:23 pm
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Some brands of steel seem to be set up so that changing the position of the A pedal (and bumping the others over) has more of an effect ergonomically than it does on other brands, hence for playability sometimes there's no way to add a "0" pedal, and sometimes there is...
There are advantages (as in above post) to having the Franklin pedal next to A. My current guitar came with it at position 4, next to C... so I'm exploring that.
The two results for me from that positioning are not being able to move as quickly from A&B to Franklin and vice versa (not a big deal) and having to be more careful (until I get the muscle memory locked in) to not hit the Franklin when wanting only B&C. Apparently I've gotten used to being able to just tromp over there to the right for B&C and have to fine tune things a bit!
I see advantages/not to both positionings.
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Dean Parks
From:
Sherman Oaks, California, USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2012 10:14 pm
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Jeff
If your only concern was the Franklin pedal, leftward would be slightly better, for the move Georg describes. However, the other pedal really needs to be next to the A pedal, so you can work the A while holding down the "G natural" pedal. |
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