The first pedal was the Bud Isaac's pedal, only backwards. IE, the basic tuning was A6th. So instead of pulling to A, it pulled to E on that pedal. But only the top C# and B were pulled as Fender could only pull two strings without modifying the cables which I did not know about until much later.
I learned every song featuring Bud Isaacs cut by a man by tha name of Webb Pierce.
using this lone pedal hooked up "backwards".Sometime later I saw a player and his was set up the "regular" way. I thought, "his guitar is wrong". But later I realized I was the one out of step. So I changed it. It just about warped my mind, but I got thru the unlearn/learn scenario.
Then dang his hide, Faron Young cut "Country Girl" and I heard a lick I could NOT get. Of course it was the splitting into our present A and B pedals that permitted that beginning "chicken picking" lick.
I went to see Faron perform and feature that song and of course I had to know how the steel player got it. And he told me how. But what he did NOT tell me was "which" way he split "dem" pedals.
So I came home and split that pedal into two of dem pedals. I simply had to have it. I am positive I was not the only one that "had to have it" during that incredible time in the evolution of the PSG.
Anyway, I split them into B and A. And for years I had the Jimmy Day setup. But it soon became apparent that again I was not doing it like most did it. Or at least most that I knew and saw.
When I met Gene O'Neal (who was playing for Judy Lynn at the time), he of course was a Buddy Emmons protege'. And IF BE had it, you could bet your bottom dollar Gene was going to have it. Since I loved them both, that did it.
Right in mid stream I changed it to A and B. Now if having the lone pedal setup backwards warped my mind (when I changed it), this dang near drove me crazy. But I got thru it. But I still believe (to this day) that it was more comfortable.
As the years rolled by I always believed that the universal was the way to fly. But I was never satisfied with any copedent I dould find or heard tell of. But I finally found one (as I have stated on this forum). That is I found a copedent that I could be totally happy with.
And one of the things I had to have which I have on my D-10 was the ability to have the 5th pedal engaged and the the (equivalent) B pedal down. NO copedent on a U-12 that I know of has this change. But I had to have it since I use that change all the time on my D-10.
So I can't have the JD setup on my universal since I must have the B pedal and the 5th pedal next door to each other. This would not be possible with the Day setup UNLESS I put the B and A pedals at the opposite end of the pedal bar.
Now I gotta tell ya somethun fellers. I went thru two "warped" eras in my life. What evah age I live to be it will be 10 yrs less than what it would have been had I not gone thru that pain
.There ain't NO way in 17 zillion years that this dude is going to strike out with another "warp yer mind" period by reversing dem pedals on dat pedal bar.
Nosirree bobweiser. It is Buddy Emmons setup fer life now.
carl
