Passionate Rant About 24 Fret Guitars...

[MrBump]

I wouldn't believe a word that comes out of that short ginger tw@t's mouth. He's renowned for being a little bit shady in the US. BC Rich and loads of people love him to bits...

Don't forget he's also fat and a racist.  Probably not gay, but I bet he can't get it up.

 :lol:

[gwEm]

what a c0ck

[Davey]

so, now 24 fret guitars are ok? .. or what?

didnt he say 24 fret guitars sucked shyt, cos the pickup WASNT under the harmonic node?

i'm confused...

[Tellboy]

Have a look at this:

http://edroman.aleclee.com/main.html

Looks like Shobet was spot on with his comment  PDT_023

[Dmoney]

this Ed Roman guys sounds pretty sweet! reminds me of someone in the UK.

[FELINEGUITARS]

Sometimes Ed Roman has made good points in his rants and sometimes had to removce some after legal letters were sent from the companies he spilled the beans on .

But this is utter rubbish aimed purely at serlling his own brand guitars

there is nothing wrong at all with 22 fret guitars
YES the neck pickup sounds different to one on a 24 fret guitar assuming that they were both at the end of a fingerboard

Actually the Gibson SG has it's neck pickup in the same place where a 24 fret guitar would have it, so there is no difference

String tension is governed by SCALE LENGTH and to a lesser extent break angle over the nut and bridge in terms of feel

To say it has anything to do with number of frets is the worst kind of BS propoganda

[Prawnik]

I wouldn't believe a word that comes out of that short ginger tw@t's mouth. He's renowned for being a little bit shady in the US. BC Rich and loads of people love him to bits...

Don't forget he's also fat and a racist.  Probably not gay, but I bet he can't get it up.

I am not an Ed Roman fan, but how do we know he is racist?

[Ian Price]

Read the last story on here:

http://edroman.aleclee.com/does.html

Doesn't really detail what he said or that he is a racist (although I suspect he is). There's no smoke without fire.

[Prawnik]

Read the last story on here:

http://edroman.aleclee.com/does.html

Doesn't really detail what he said or that he is a racist (although I suspect he is). There's no smoke without fire.

I just saw that. Still not exactly a prima facie case, but rest assured I will not be buying anything from Ed any time soon.

[Philly Q]

I wouldn't believe a word that comes out of that short ginger tw@t's mouth. He's renowned for being a little bit shady in the US. BC Rich and loads of people love him to bits...

Don't forget he's also fat and a racist.  Probably not gay, but I bet he can't get it up.

I am not an Ed Roman fan, but how do we know he is racist?

I haven't yet read the link Ian posted, but my (slightly tongue in cheek) comment was based on the comments Mr Roman repeatedly makes about "imports". 

He derides anything made outside the USA, and uses the very word "import" to imply "inferior".  He totally ignores the actual quality of guitars made in Japan, Korea or wherever and implies they're rubbish simply because they're foreign.  I regard that as racist.

(This might be stuff which is no longer on his website, I read it all quite a few years ago.  But there was a lot of it.)

[Ratrod]

I have little need for that many frets. I rarely play a note beyond the 20th.

I know a guitarist who converted his strat to 24 frets. Stock scale so the neck pocket had to be routed out and the neck pickup moved back. He quickly noticed the glorious tone from his neck pickup was gone.

Many players belive that the spot of the 24th fret or where the pickup sits on traditional guitars is the most resonant spot of the guitar.

In many cases Ed makes a valid point in his rants but they are all made with one single motivation: money.

They're all sales pitches in disguise.

[bucketshred]

Just read the opening statement in this.

http://www.edroman.com/rants/pawnshops.htm

Racist? I think so!

Paddy

[Sifu Ben]

While there undoubtedly seems to be many issues with Ed Roman, that "Fixing the heel from hell" complaint always annoys me. I mean "I got him to remove a large mass of wood from the heel of my guitar and now it sounds brighter"??? What exactly was this guy expecting? That it would suddenly sound like a 70s LP Custom??

[Dmoney]

well... that was terrible reading

[Ratrod]

Flags depicting Americans being shot? Haven't seen one of those yet, certainly not as a country's national flag.

Flags depicting an AK-47, yes, but Americans being shot? Really?

BTW, another thing that don't bother me on a guitar at all: a massively fat heel.