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Topic: Set up 12 string |
Scott Appleton
From:
Ashland, Oregon
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Posted 10 Sep 2017 6:02 pm |
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| Having a 12 string set up with the first 4 as 0 A B C ..what would you tune the next 3 foot pedals in the B6 mode. It's a 7 and 5 steel. Thanks for the input I have some ideas what do you suppose? |
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 10 Sep 2017 6:23 pm
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| B6th pedal 5,6,7. |
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Jim Palenscar
From:
Oceanside, Calif, USA
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Posted 10 Sep 2017 6:26 pm
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| Typically you would omit the std C6 P4 then set up the remaining 3 for P5,6 and 7 or include P8 and use a knee lever to lower string #8 to a D and raise #4 back up to an E when the uni E-D# lever is lowered thus replacing P6 on a C6. |
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 11 Sep 2017 6:14 am
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I'd go with Jim's second suggestion - 6 on a lever is cool, and you will find it comes into your E9 thinking.
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 11 Sep 2017 6:23 am
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I play a significant amount of Swing music on the bandstand, and would never be able to work the "E-to-Eb lever to E-to-D lever move" fast enough to keep up.
Having tried it, I am keeping P6 as a pedal because it gets used so incredibly much, mainly for the I-to-IV (or V) move is swing-ee tunes.
I could see putting P5 on a lever, fwiw. |
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 11 Sep 2017 8:31 am
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For the sake of brevity, I omitted to mention that I have both changes on the same lever, i.e. E to D# on a ½-stop, then push on down to D. So with E already lowered to D# the swing stuff just needs a nudge now and then.
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 11 Sep 2017 8:42 am
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Having tried various popular half-stops, imhe, in the heat of the moment on the bandstand, I was never able to keep them in tune.
I need to be able to slam the pedals and levers and have them be dead on.
For that reason, I personally would not want those two B6th changes on one lever with a half-stop feel at Eb. |
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Ian Rae
From:
Redditch, England
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Posted 11 Sep 2017 10:01 am
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Pete, I know a lot of players don't like half stops and I would never urge them on anyone!
The tricky part is not hitting the stop on the way down, but finding the D# acccurately on the way back. I have achieved this by engineering a small plateau where nothing happens. Works for me - the mileage of others varies considerably, I know 
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