Single vs Double Pull

Dennis Montgomery · From: Western Washington

Hi all, I have my very 1st cable pull PSG on it's way...a 4 pedal Fender 400 and I'm thinking about the copedent I want to setup. I have a silly question...can someone explain to me in detail the difference between a single pull and a double pull instrument? I thought I understood the limitation of a single pull then I d'loaded the old Fender 400 manual and saw their tuning charts and realized I really don't understand this as well as I thought I did Wink

Thanks!
Dennis
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Jeff Mead · From: London, England

With the 400, each string can be raised and/or lowered by a preset amount.

Each pedal can pull either one or two strings.

So for example (assuming you were tuning to strings 3 to 10 of a standard E9)

One pedal can raise both your B strings to C#
Another can raise your G# strings to A
Another can raise your high E to F# and your high B to C#.

These are the "standard" A B and C pedals for E9.

You could in addition lower your Es to Eb on another pedal.

You could have a pedal that raises one string and lowers another one.

What you can't do is have another pedal raising your Es to F because you have already designated the E raise as being to F#.

That's about the only limitation - each string can only be one of 3 notes - the no pedals note and one higher and one lower note.

In the above example you might decide the E to F is more usefull than E to F#.

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Dennis Montgomery · From: Western Washington

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