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Topic: C6 pedals |
Tom Higgins
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 26 Nov 2007 4:05 pm |
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| Is there a consensus among accomplished C6 players as to which feet are used on pedals 4 thru 8?I don`t have any lkl`s on the C6 neck,but I don`t want to get in the habit of moving my left leg to the right,because I might have lkl`s on C6 on a future guitar.Thanks. |
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Paddy Long
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Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 26 Nov 2007 4:08 pm
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| Tom it shouldn't be an issue, I have a 3 lever cluster in the centre of my guitars for C6th and I can move my left leg from pedal 4 thru 9 with no problem without accidentally activating a knee lever. |
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Tom Higgins
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 26 Nov 2007 4:17 pm C6
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Paddy,
I`m pretty snug behind my guitar,have to stand slightly to disengage from the lkl`s.If I progress to using left knees on this guitar,it would be physically impossible to get past pedal 5 with my left foot.I was wondering if it`s common practice to use the right foot on 4-8,and sacrifice the volume pedal. |
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Wayne Franco
From:
silverdale, WA. USA
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Posted 26 Nov 2007 10:41 pm Only if you use two pedals at the same time
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| I think that generally speaking you use the right foot only when playing two or more pedals on the C6 tuning. |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 26 Nov 2007 11:10 pm
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Tom,
The LKL levers that you use with the C6 are usually placed farther over to the right side of the steel in between the other sets of levers. When you play the C neck you put your left leg in between the C neck levers and you are good to go. It is not a problem at all. You use your left foot for the pedals same as the E neck.
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Jay Jessup
From:
Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Posted 27 Nov 2007 8:20 am
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Tom,
To answer your question, no it is not common practice to sacrifice the volume pedal to use your right foot on C6. There is a common move that utilizes both pedals 5 and 7 that requires bringing the right foot off of the pedals to execute and there are other situations like that where the right foot can help out but your pedals should be set so the left foot can get to them all and especially be able to cover the 6-7 and 5-6 combination and retain the ability to rock on and off of them just like the A+B pedals on E9.
Knee levers generally can be adjusted for different spacings so you can easily get in and out from behind your guitar
There's a ton of music available on C6 with just one or two knee levers so you might not ever even need to have left knees on that neck. Herby Wallace is (or maybe was, I think he has lost weight since his stroke?) a very large guy and never had any left knees on his C6 neck and I doubt there's much music he couldn't play better than most anybody with that setup. |
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 27 Nov 2007 8:42 am KNEE Levers.............
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| When I'm playing on my C6th neck, I simply fold up and out of sight, those knee levers that I don't intend on using. Of course, mine, is an EMMONS and I guess it's possible that other guitars don't provide you with this option. |
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