Songs using the Franklin pedal

[John McClung]

Has anyone compiled a list of commercially available songs with prominent use of the Franklin pedal? Love to see it if so. Trying to help a student configure his guitar.

[Bill McCloskey]

I'll be following this thread closely. I find myself using the Franklin pedal all the time now that I have it in the zero postion next to the A pedal. When it was in the 4th position, I really didn't use it at all. It works in conjunction with the A pedal in particular, that even Paul says Zero position is the logical place for it. Paul has a few lessons in his method dedicated to the Franklin pedal, which helped open my eyes to it.

[Greg Cutshaw]

One of my favorites is with Mike Johnson backing Rhonda Vincent here at 0:08 and at about 1:50 and 2:24 and on the ending at 4:05:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd_EUWK ... rt_radio=1

I have this change on most of my guitars and it really stands out in the studio or in a band where the steel is out front in the mix. You have to have a lot of reserve on the volume pedal to keep the guitar loud throughout the whole sequence.

Another one here at 6:58 with a double press:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofnNeNl ... rt_radio=1

[Joel Jackson]

One of my favorite is with Mike Johnson backing Rhonda Vincent here at 0:08 and at about 1:50 and 2:24 and on the ending at 4:05:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd_EUWK ... rt_radio=1

I have this change on most of my guitars and it really stands out in the studio or in a band where the steel is out front in the mix. You have to have a lot of reserve on the volume pedal to keep the guitar loud throughout the whole sequence.

Another one here at 6:58 with a double press:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofnNeNl ... rt_radio=1

Wow. Mike Johnson's playing on that one. He's just so good.

[Joel Jackson]

One of my favorite is with Mike Johnson backing Rhonda Vincent here at 0:08 and at about 1:50 and 2:24 and on the ending at 4:05:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd_EUWK ... rt_radio=1

Wow. Mike Johnson's playing on that one. He's just so good.

[Bob Carlucci]

I could be wrong, but I heard mostly string 6 being dropped a full tone, which is a standard change, not so much string 5 along with it.. Not trying to contradict, I'm really not sure. . Mike might see this and let us know.. I had the Franklin pull on a few guitars over the years, and personally just did not like them together all that much.. I much preferred the string 6 full tone lower on its own on a pedal, and the string 5 lower with a half tone feel stop.. So much more flexibility that way ,at least for me. Try as a I might I just never found dropping 5 and 6 together on a pedal was of much use to my playing.. I know others really like it, as I do, but separately , not together.

[Greg Cutshaw]

I can hear the low B string being dropped and that's what gives it such a full sound.

MIke's copedant:

https://fileswift.com/sites/default/fil ... pedent.pdf

[David W.D. McCormick]

One of my favorites is with Mike Johnson backing Rhonda Vincent here at 0:08 and at about 1:50 and 2:24 and on the ending at 4:05:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd_EUWK ... rt_radio=1

I have this change on most of my guitars and it really stands out in the studio or in a band where the steel is out front in the mix. You have to have a lot of reserve on the volume pedal to keep the guitar loud throughout the whole sequence.

Another one here at 6:58 with a double press:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofnNeNl ... rt_radio=1

I wanna be like Mike

[Rich Ertelt]

I could be wrong, but I heard mostly string 6 being dropped a full tone, which is a standard change, not so much string 5 along with it.. Not trying to contradict, I'm really not sure. . Mike might see this and let us know.. I had the Franklin pull on a few guitars over the years, and personally just did not like them together all that much.. I much preferred the string 6 full tone lower on its own on a pedal, and the string 5 lower with a half tone feel stop.. So much more flexibility that way ,at least for me. Try as a I might I just never found dropping 5 and 6 together on a pedal was of much use to my playing.. I know others really like it, as I do, but separately , not together.

I sat down and worked on that intro and solo, spent a lot of hours on it. It is a great lesson, you can see pretty well where his hands are, or at least the movements. Used that to work out the best I can what he is doing. What I hear is using the pedal to lower 6th string. I don't hear him using it on the 5th string at all. I didn't catch lowering the 10th to A, I'll go back and work on it some more. I don't have that move on mine, just the 5th and 6th.

I had the 5th full step lower, just added the 6th string, after seeing that vid, so just taking it one step at a time. I have yet to find a really good use for using both lowers at the same time, but individually, have found a lot of interesting stuff, alternating with the A/B raises.

[Marty Broussard]

Folks,
Pretty sure that on Billy Currington’s recording of “Let Me Down Easy” that pedal is being utilized on the intro, turnaround, and outro. Hope this helps the discussion.