Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Transcend on August 19, 2010, 09:12:35 PM
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http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2010-05/invention-awards-plug-and-rock-out
got notified of this by a friend who attends MI and god it is UGLY i do wonder how well it will work though
and how many people are willing to get there guitars hacked up to get it installed.
Thoughts?
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how does this work?
All I see is that it uses springs to maintain string tension. Surely you'd still have to retune to compensate for changes in temperature, string aging etc. Also the spring would be subject to temperature changes and it would appear screw up your ability to do bends.
I'll stick with manually tuning, if I really needed a self tuning system I'd by a robot guitar so that I wouldn't have to butcher a perfectly good Les Paul to put that monstrosity on it.
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Thats exactly my views on it i dont really 100% understand how it works and it seems from the official site that you have to set its range outside of that which you are bending to in order to bend therefore making the device do absolutely nothing.
It actually looks a lot more hassle than a FR and is uglier too.
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Hahahaha look at the guy with the telecaster! HAHAHA!
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Not really worth it imo
Things are, see
A good guitar holds tuning well enough.
I wouldnt have a guitar thats had that much wood removed from the body.
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It just seems like the proverbial sledgehammer to crack a walnut.
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i never thought i'd say these words, but I'd rather have a robot guitar!
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I wonder how it affects sustain, and as the strings get older I think bending notes would required slightly more bending of the string, would like to see some vibrato too
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I concur. silly gadgets....
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:lol:
That works too.
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I couldn't have expressed it any better.
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I couldn't have expressed it any better.
quoted for truth
but seriously, you could simplify your life but spending...I dunno, 30 seconds tuning your guitar between sessions.