I'd had thought there would be more money to licence the product now
wez if I'm reading you right, so if I got a transterm, I couldn't put it on another guitar, one that isn't headless because of the extra string behind the nut? or could I set it up to work with the addition string length?
from my experience with them it seem ned had it worked out to the last mm of string.
if you have extra string behind the nut or saddle then that extra length will have an affect on how much the tuning moves wehn you move between the presets
they are adjustable to a certain degree but not massively so
as an example, on gwems i had the neck 3mm closer to the bridge than on a real steinberger, this was well within the intonation range for the guitar so should have been absolutely fine (bare in mind the saddles actually have about an inch of adjustability, although it seems most of that is actually unusable). with any other bridge design it would have worked perfectly, even with any other steinberger bridge it would be fine. and the guitar did tune up fine and worked very well as a normal trem - but we had major issues with the accuracy of the transtrem, we could get it close on most strings, but then when downtuning using the transtrem certain strings would be as much as 1/2 a step out.
so essentially the strings where 3mm too short over the whole length (not to be confused with scale length. its the whole length of string at play here) and the tuners were taking up the slack, but not well enough for the other tuning presets to be accurate. we mostly solved it by adding a 3mm shim between the end of neck and headpiece. I think we also decided that using a peterson tuenr was a mistake on such a device, you could end up chasing innacuracies all day that a normal tuner simply wouldnt notice... in fact we did. we had a whole day of adding veneers of varying thicknesses and retuning trying to decided exactly how thick the final shim should be
