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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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Re: Evertune - the bridge that always keeps your guitar in tune...
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2010, 09:49:03 PM »
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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Re: Evertune - the bridge that always keeps your guitar in tune...
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2010, 06:09:18 AM »
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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Re: Evertune - the bridge that always keeps your guitar in tune...
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2010, 09:31:59 AM »
Hahahaha look at the guy with the telecaster! HAHAHA!

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Re: Evertune - the bridge that always keeps your guitar in tune...
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2010, 04:06:46 PM »
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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Re: Evertune - the bridge that always keeps your guitar in tune...
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2010, 05:31:34 PM »
It just seems like the proverbial sledgehammer to crack a walnut.
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Re: Evertune - the bridge that always keeps your guitar in tune...
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2010, 08:39:31 PM »
i never thought i'd say these words, but I'd rather have a robot guitar!
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Re: Evertune - the bridge that always keeps your guitar in tune...
« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2010, 09:02:46 PM »
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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Re: Evertune - the bridge that always keeps your guitar in tune...
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2010, 09:17:40 PM »
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Re: Evertune - the bridge that always keeps your guitar in tune...
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2010, 10:56:12 PM »
I concur. silly gadgets....
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Re: Evertune - the bridge that always keeps your guitar in tune...
« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2010, 04:43:00 PM »


I couldn't have expressed it any better.
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Re: Evertune - the bridge that always keeps your guitar in tune...
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2010, 11:23:23 PM »


I couldn't have expressed it any better.

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but seriously, you could simplify your life but spending...I dunno, 30 seconds tuning your guitar between sessions.
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