If its coming from the changer, it means that the lower rod is hitting the endplate tuning screw before the travel adjustment screw is hitting its final stop. On a pedal with a string lower, listen closely to make sure the click is coming from front apron or the knee lever stop and not from the changer. If the pedal feel is good and you here the click it usually means it is setup right. This click is the sound of the travel adjustment screw hitting its final stop. What you want to hear at this point when you depress your pedal or knee lever, isa distinctive click. You may also wait until you have set all the other pulls before doing this, however the distance will be the same. After this you may want to tighten the screw on the travel length collar or the pedal travel screw, so that it hits its final stop at precisely the same time as the changer finger reaches its final stop. Next set and tighten up the screw on the collar on the bellcrank of this string so that when you push the pedal/knee lever the changer finger hits the appropriate point (either the body for a raise or the lower tuning screw for a lower) that you set when you set the changer. This will be the string with the thinnest gauge. SET UP LONGEST PULLĭetermine which string of the strings you are raising or lowering has the longest travel.
If you follow this method it will become second nature and probably resemble a root canal – not necessarily fun, but necessary. You have to get used to it and just plunge ahead. The most common scenario you will run into is as follows after many hours of work you have several pedals and knee levers set up perfectly BUT on the last one you suddenly realize that the only way can you can get at some screw that will let you complete their final task is to removenumerous rods on the pedals you have just set up. When they get one string or pedal working exactly the way they want it to they do not want to change it for fear of losing what they have worked so hard to get. This is a common pitfall with inexperienced owners. If you are setting up a pedal, back out the large screw that sets the travel length on that pedal so that it no longer hits the bar on the front apron of guitar. Then release the screws on the collars that set the travel length for the knee lever (if that’s what you are setting up). On each raise and each lower of the pedal or knee lever you are setting up, undo the screw in the collar nearest the bellcrank.
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