Ranking of your most important E9th setup changes....

Steve Leal · From: Orange CA, USA

I'm curious what the consensus is on this.

As if you were adding these changes incrementally to your guitar, rank your E9th tuning copedent changes from being (1) most important to (10) least important of the levers and pedals you use.

Here is mine:

1. E lever
2. A pedal
3. B pedal
4. F lever
5. D lever
6. C pedal
7. G lever (raising F#s a half step. If lever supports 3 pulls, then raising F#S a whole step with feel stop to half step raise by raising D# a half step)
8. Up lever lowering Bs to Bb
9. X pedal lowering G# string 3 a half step and lowering G# string 6 a whole step

Thanks guys and gals!

Jeff Mead · From: London, England

You should really define what you mean by those levers. Apart from the ABC pedals, there are probably at least 2 variations for each of the levers as to what they might do depending on who you talk to.

The great thing about standards is that there are always so many to choose from.

If you really do mean incrementally then for me it would be...

1 pedal that combines traditional A&B pedals.
2 Split the above into traditional A and B pedals
3 Lever to raise Es (F lever?????)
4 Lever to lower Es (E lever?????)
5 Lever to lower D# to D and low D to C# (D lever?????)
6 C pedal
7 Lever to raise 1&2 (to match 3&4) and lower 6th to F# (Ideally raising 1st string to G when half engaged).
8 Lever (vertical) to lower high B a semitone. (X lever?????)

Apart from the last bit in brackets on 7, that's what I have right now and I don't think my brain would cope with more.

Richard Sinkler · From: aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana

1. A, B, C have equal importance
2. E's to D#
3. E's to F
4. F# on string one to G#, 2 D# to E, and most importantly string 6 G# to F#.
5. String 2 lower to D and C#, string 9 to C#
6. Both F#'s to G
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Roger Rettig · From: Naples, FL

Most important? For me, these are my priorities:

Pedals A & B.

Raising the Fs.

Lowering the Bs.

Pedal C.

Lowering 2 and 9.

Lowering the Es.

Finally - raising 1,2 and 7 (my LKV - my least-used pull).

I also like raising 6 a whole step but that, too, is an occasional requirement.
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Paul Sutherland · From: Placerville, California

Pedals A, B & C

Lower Es

Raise Es

Lower the 2nd a half tone

Everything else is fluff
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Roy Carroll · From: North of a Round Rock

Here is my favorite,
Pedals A,B,C Emmons set-up
LKR - Lower E's to Eb
LKL - Raise E's to F
RKL - Raise 1 to G# and 2 to E , lower 6 to F#
RKR - lower 2 C# 1/2 stop to D and lower 9 to C#
LVL - raise 1 to G, lower 5 to A, lower 10 to Bb
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Roger Rettig · From: Naples, FL

Paul wrote:

"Everything else is fluff"

I'm sure he meant to add: "...in my opinion." Smile

I'd want the B-Bb lower before the E-lower - we already have that note on our second string.
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Roger Rettig - Emmons D10s, Quilter TT-12, B-bender Teles and old Martins.
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Paul Sutherland · From: Placerville, California

You do realize this thread is only one step removed from "what's the best way to tune a steel?"
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Roger Rettig · From: Naples, FL

Of course it is, but we both responded.
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Tony Prior · From: Charlotte NC

DG Whitley · Posted 18 Jan 2018 9:15 am

I think Paul and Tony pretty much hit on what Jeff Newman was saying in his E9th Chord Dictionary Video when he said with 3 pedals and 3 knees, you can get just about any chord you want.

I like the "fluff" too, but you can do some serious stuff with just the above.

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