Franklin pedal placement?

Michael Rademacher · Post by **Michael Rademacher** » 13 Jul 2022 5:31 pm

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?

Ian Rae · Post by **Ian Rae** » 13 Jul 2022 11:50 pm

I have neither, but from a bystander's viewpoint the field looks evenly split.

Dale Rivard · Post by **Dale Rivard** » 14 Jul 2022 7:15 am

I would set the location based on knee lever placement.

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 14 Jul 2022 8:18 am

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.

Michael Rademacher · Post by **Michael Rademacher** » 14 Jul 2022 8:47 am

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.

Ken Byng · Post by **Ken Byng** » 14 Jul 2022 8:59 am

I am a Day player, and have my Franklin pedal on pedal #4 on most of my pedal steels. It's an easy add.

Michael Rademacher · Post by **Michael Rademacher** » 14 Jul 2022 6:31 pm

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.

Bengt Erlandsen · Post by **Bengt Erlandsen** » 15 Jul 2022 2:51 am

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

B.Erlandsen
Zumsteel S12extE9 7+7

Ken Byng · Post by **Ken Byng** » 15 Jul 2022 10:28 am

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.

Pat Chong · Post by **Pat Chong** » 15 Jul 2022 11:14 am

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.

Dale Rottacker · Post by **Dale Rottacker** » 15 Jul 2022 1:34 pm

I'm sure I'm NOT your normal Franklin Pedal user... Mine is spread out over one pedal and 2 knee levers... So I can use part or all, I usually just use part of it.

Daniel Stein · Post by **Daniel Stein** » 15 Jul 2022 5:48 pm

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

Per Berner · Post by **Per Berner** » 15 Jul 2022 10:31 pm

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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