Is Brian Setzer using a Octavia pedal in this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrJ2Jqj8 ... ture=feedf

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Neither, by the looks and sound of what he's doing. He's definitely not using any kind of octave device.

He might--but I highly doubt it--be tuned in dropped D (DADGBE, fat to skinny). It looks to be in standard tuning, or perhaps (again I doubt it) a half-step down.

That bassy, twangy stuff he's doing on the lower frets doesn't appear to be in any kind of alternate tuning...it's just playing down on the fat strings at the end of the neck through a clean-sounding old Fender tube amp. I can get a similar sound from any of my guitars, even on the Armadillo Child's Squier Mini-Strat.

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I doubt that it would be an Octavia as the Octavia raises the signal an octave or splits it and plays the note plucked and the same note an octave higher.It sounds more like he's using a dropped tuning and a heavy gauge set of strings ,of course when EQed right you can get a booming tone from a Gretsch with the Filtertrons anyway.

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I doubt it. Most octave splitters don't do chords very well unless it's some complex digital thing. He may be tuned down a half step possibly a whole step but I doubt it. You can't tune too far down with a Bigsby without causing a bunch of tuning problems.

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standard tuning, regular gauge strings,and a touch reverb

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ill try a half step down tuning for it then i might get a touch of reverb

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