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Topic: Franklin pedal placement? |
Michael Rademacher
From:
Killeen, Texas
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Posted 13 Jul 2022 5:31 pm |
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Is the Franklin pedal normally used as a "zero" pedal or is it used as a p4? If either one, which do players generally prefer?
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 13 Jul 2022 11:50 pm
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I have neither, but from a bystander's viewpoint the field looks evenly split.
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Dale Rivard
From:
Ontario, Canada
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Posted 14 Jul 2022 7:15 am
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| I would set the location based on knee lever placement. |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 14 Jul 2022 8:18 am
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Not sure, but is there an advantage to having it adjacent to the A pedal?
If so, then it's dictated by Emmons vs. Day: pedal 1 or pedal 4 respectively.
I don't have it. |
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Michael Rademacher
From:
Killeen, Texas
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Posted 14 Jul 2022 8:47 am
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My guitar will have that pedal. I am getting an Emmons setup so I guess it will be adjacent to the A pedal? I will ask Derek, as he is the one building my guitar. I just wondered whether there was some overall preference for where to put it.
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 14 Jul 2022 8:59 am
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I am a Day player, and have my Franklin pedal on pedal #4 on most of my pedal steels. It's an easy add.
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Michael Rademacher
From:
Killeen, Texas
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Posted 14 Jul 2022 6:31 pm
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Ken, do you find enough use for your Franklin pedal to justify having it? I ordered my guitar with the pedal but since I don't play yet and you have this pedal, I am taking this opportunity to ask.
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Bengt Erlandsen
From:
Brekstad, NORWAY
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Posted 15 Jul 2022 2:51 am
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As long as I can use the E's to Eb at the same time it would be all  In my case, the E's to Eb are on my LKR so I would need it to be at P4 next to the C pedal.
If your E's to Eb are on your R-knee lever then the PF pedal could be either at P0 or P4
just my thoughts
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 15 Jul 2022 10:28 am
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| Michael Rademacher wrote: |
| Ken, do you find enough use for your Franklin pedal to justify having it? I ordered my guitar with the pedal but since I don't play yet and you have this pedal, I am taking this opportunity to ask. |
Hi Michael
I use the Franklin pedal a few times in an evening, but not so much that it becomes repetitious. I use it fleetingly, as I do the strings 1 & 2 raise. That change is used by everybody these days, and is very much overused. I do like the 7th string whole tone raise very much. Great major 7 chord.
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Pat Chong
From:
New Mexico, USA
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Posted 15 Jul 2022 11:14 am
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Hello Michael,
With the Franklin next to the A pedal: it helps when you are rocking off of the FP to the A pedal. I, too, have it there. And Ken, with the Day setup, although pedal 4, it too, is next to the A pedal. There are other posts questioning Franklin pedal placement to look up if you so desire.......Pat. |
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Dale Rottacker
From:
Walla Walla Washington, USA
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Daniel Stein
From:
Glen Allen, Virginia, US
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Posted 15 Jul 2022 5:48 pm 4th
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when I had my old Justice for a few months it was a EMMONS setup with the Franklin on Pedal 4, I didnt get a lot of licks with as I didnt have the guitar long enough. I did use it for SUS chords
3rd fret in G, hit B pedal, let off B, then Hit the franklin, and resolve it to G
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Per Berner
From:
Skovde, Sweden
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Posted 15 Jul 2022 10:31 pm
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| I had the Franklin change as pedal 0, next to the A pedal, but I found it a bit confusing. Many times I stepped on 0+A instead of the intended A+B. That, and the fact that I didn't find the Franklin change useful in my (rather simplistic) style of playing, made me take it off. |
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