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Topic: 6th tuning with only 3 pedals |
Fred Glave
From:
McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2008 12:00 pm |
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| If you only had 3 pedals and you wanted 6th tuning, which ones would you keep, or sacrifice? I'm setting up a practice guitar and want to dedicate it to B6th tuning, but only have 3 pedals. I think I know already what I'll most likely do, but looking for opinions. |
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Dan Burnham
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Greenfield, Tennessee
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Posted 28 Jan 2008 12:30 pm Look at Bud Carters
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Fred,
take a look at Bud Carter's setup. It is by default B6 but does E9. It is the easiest I've seen.
Dan
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Ernie Pollock
From:
Mt Savage, Md USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2008 12:34 pm Humm?
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If you have 3 pedals & 3 or 4 knee levers & enough rods & bellcranks you could probably have it all. I used on my first steel which was an old Shobud Baldwin Crossover that would not crossover!! I had 3 pedals on the C6th it they were pedal B, Pedal C & Pedal D and I had the standard knee lever change on the one knee lever the guitar had on it. With pedal B & C together you can get the diminished chords, and that was the main two pedals for me. I did do The Girl From Ipanema with that guitar using the D pedal. but if I had not had any knee levers I would do those pedals I mentioned above.
I have a GFI 10 string with 6 pedals & 5 knee levers that I have a funky E9th/B6th tuning on, its great fun to play.
Ernie Pollock
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Roy Ayres
From:
Riverview, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 28 Jan 2008 4:35 pm
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I have a lock-in lever on my Excel that pulls it into an A6 very similar to the standard C6 but 3 half-tones lower. I have three of my six pedal set up the way b0b said -- like pedals 5, 6, and 7 on a standard C6 PSG.
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 29 Jan 2008 11:39 am
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On a S-10 with only 3 pedals I'd do this....
Basic tuning, high to low..C# D# B G# F# D# B G# E B
Pedal 1...raise 3rd string B and 4th string G# a whole tone each........
Pedal 2...raise 2nd string D# to E and lower 6th string D# to D....
Pedal 3...Lower 5th string F# to F, raise 9th string E to F, and raise 10th string B to C#.
If I had any knee levers they'd do this.....
KL....lower 3 B to A# (Bb)
KL....raise string 7 B to C, lower string 9 E to D# (Eb), lower string 10 B to G# (Ab)
That would give you enough changes to last a lifetime......JH in Va.
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John Poston
From:
Albuquerque, NM, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2008 1:13 pm
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| considering all the great non pedal 6th stuff out there, anything you feel like adding would probably be just fine but I'm inclined to go with b0b on this one. |
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Fred Glave
From:
McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2008 2:45 pm
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| Thanks for the input guys. I use the middle 3 the most right now, so I guess, I wasn't too far off track. |
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