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Mike Johnson's Copedent?

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Anyone have it? I hope y'all are catching him on the Country Family Reunion shows. What a band!


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E9 same as Paul's but with RKR and LKR exchanged, but no feel stop on the F# raises, and no str 8 pull on the C pedal. Vertical is str 6 lowering to F# as I recall.

This is what was on his ShowPro in Dallas 2010, he said it's the same as his others.
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E9 same as Paul's but with RKR and LKR exchanged, but no feel stop on the F# raises, and no str 8 pull on the C pedal. Vertical is str 6 lowering to F# as I recall.

This is what was on his ShowPro in Dallas 2010, he said it's the same as his others.
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Yes Dean your right, I had a play on his Show Pro at Dallas last year and it was very similar to my setup - E9th at least! Awesome guitar by the way :D
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Dean Parks wrote:E9 same as Paul's but with RKR and LKR exchanged, but no feel stop on the F# raises, and no str 8 pull on the C pedal. Vertical is str 6 lowering to F# as I recall.

This is what was on his ShowPro in Dallas 2010, he said it's the same as his others.
Link to Paul's?

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Post by Jerry Overstreet »

Hi Bob. I think this link to Paul's copedent is current. http://www.paul-franklin.com/talking.html

He stated on a thread last year that he once used the 6th string G# to E lower and still had it on one guitar, but uses the G# to B raise on the others. Perhaps he will drop in and inform us of his most recent changes.
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Jerry Overstreet wrote:Hi Bob. I think this link to Paul's copedent is current. http://www.paul-franklin.com/talking.html

He stated on a thread last year that he once used the 6th string G# to E lower and still had it on one guitar, but uses the G# to B raise on the others. Perhaps he will drop in and inform us of his most recent changes.
Thanks, Jerry.


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Bob,
You need to come to Nashville sometime and I'll take ya to see Mike perform live with his band "45 RPM". They are AWESOME!

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Nick Reed wrote:Bob,
You need to come to Nashville sometime and I'll take ya to see Mike perform live with his band "45 RPM". They are AWESOME!

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That's motivation for sure! Thanks, Nick :)


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Here are the tunings and pedal arrangements that Clem Schmitz put on Mike Johnson’s just-received Emmons Rosewood PP. He is currently changing over Mike's wood neck push-pull (using Clem's new hybrid system) to this setup.

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Ernie Renn wrote:Here are the tunings and pedal arrangements that Clem Schmitz put on Mike Johnson’s just-received Emmons Rosewood PP. He is currently changing over Mike's wood neck push-pull (using Clem's new hybrid system) to this setup.

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Thanks, for that, Ernie. Mike's red P/P is aluminum necks w/ Lawrence 705's?


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These aren't exactly the charts for the red push-pull. They are close though. These are for the rosewood push-pull Mike just took delivery on.

Yes, I was told Mike's red push-pull has aluminum necks and 705's.
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The LKR on C6 should be "F" and not "F#."
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And he lowers his 9th string (E9th) to C# :D
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It's amazing what sleep deprivation can do.

Yes, to C#. I'm going to have to redo this if there's any more. ;)
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I'm going to have to redo . . .
This look awright . . ?

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I thought Mike had 2 vertical knees on his guitar in Dallas?


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I don't know how I did it. My E9th is exactly like his but it just doesn't sound the same for some reason.
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Post by Larry McFall »

Yes Dick, I seem to have that very same problem. Just maybe, now that is just maybe, we need it touched by the magic hand.
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