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Just remember that any pedals that's too easy to push is not going to give you the control that you need of the note changing from one pitch to another. These guitars are extremely comfortable to sit down behind and play well the first time you try. It's obvious that these guitars are being designed and built by a very good player, Mr. Most steel guitars today that are on my floor here are a good blend of width and spacing, for instance, the new Mullen guitars. Remember here, Clinesmith and Bigsby pedals, like the first Sho-Bud pedals, are built with a very wide pad on the end so they require either thinning them down with a band saw, which I have done, or add more space between pedals overall. This would be too much on a Sho-Bud or Emmons, but it's just perfect for Bigsby or Clinesmith. I just put the pedal setup on my new Clinesmith and because of the width of the pedal, I went to three and a quarter inch spacing. I like two and three quarter spacing or even more if the pedals are wide.
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But he wanted it that way and played it very well. This was horribly narrow for me and I just couldn't play it. I remember Tom Morrell and I building some of the first MSAs and Tommy himself built a steel guitar with only two inches of space between them. The person that likes one may hate another. But let me say this out loud.Īll these pedal sizes and pedal feels I'm talking about really must be sized and adjusted to the player.
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However, the very wide spacing like on the early Sho-Bud Pro IIIs, these new pedals give you almost too much space between the pedals. I like the newer Sho-Bud pedals that are thin from the shank to the end of the pedal because it gives you more space between the pedals without the pedals being further apart. The Sho-Bud pedals do not have this trouble. The good thing about this is if you have a belt sander, it's very easy to cut this sharp edge off the tops of the pedals. The old Emmons pedals, you could do this quite easily. I personally don't like the LeGrande pedals because of the sharp edge on top that prevents a player from sliding his foot across the top of the pedal. Upon seeing Buddy Emmons first LeGrande, I see that he did the same thing. I like the feel much better even though the tension from all the way up to all the way down was identical. The first Emmons LeGrande and actually second and third LeGrandes, I took the pedals off and replaced them with the old style cast push pull pedals. This might be okay if you get used to it, but after playing a guitar with a flat pedal on top like Franklin or Fessenden, it could be pretty confusing. If a pedal is rounded off from the top to the end, the ratio actually changes as your foot pushes it down and walks along the top of it. There are many different types of pedal feels and of course, pedal shapes. Do you realize how many different spacings, pedal travel and pedal shapes there are from guitar to guitar? When you say a pedal feels good, does this mean you want one to push real easy or have enough resistance that you can get half pedal without running the pedal into the floor?