How good is an Evertune actually?

[nightsprinter]

I agree completely with the couple of comments metropolis has offered up. Bends do feel and respond a bit differently (even when set up to bend perfectly) and I find there to be less sustain in general, although videos have been made which claim to debunk it.

 

[Nightside]

Evertune is making up problems so they can sell you their solution. There is nothing it claims to cure that can't be cured with proper strings and good technique.

The only guitars I've ever encountered that held tuning perfectly were neck through body Esps with OFR. I had an Edwards E-AL-128 Arrowhead sent to me from Japan from Meestursparkle while I was on deployment. It was delivered to my friend's house in the nasty humid land of Missouri where it sat for a year in it's gigbag in his uninsulated backyard garden shed until I came to get it. The frets and hardware had begun to tarnish from humidity but it was still perfectly in tune. I had a custom shop KH4 that I only needed to tune when I changed strings.

The bolt on Esps were really good but not that perfect. They would need a fine tune here or there with heavy bar use.

 

[Screamingdaisy]

The "staying in tune perfectly" thing always bugged me in a recording context because I thought the little slight out-of-tune nuances in multi-track guitar tracks is what helps give it that big, wide sound. I can see the use live, but recording...eh?

IMO, the sound of a guitar going sharp is the the sound of guitar. It's been like that since the dawn of recorded guitar.

 

[nightsprinter]

Where evertune works well for me is in that my house has wild climate swings daily because of how the sun hits it so when I get a riff idea in my head, I can pull an ET guitar off the wall and immediately try it out and know it will sound like it should, as opposed to finding out the G string is flat or a couple strings are out enough to make it sound weird because if I get distracted by looking for a tuner and tuning it up, I might blank on the melody or thought in my head.

 

[Crash Dandicoot]

On the topic of nut sauce, please don't waste your money on guitar-specific shit. I use this to great success for half the price, it's a substantial amount more actual product and it lasts for-bloody-ever.

IIRC Tom Anderson uses either the same stuff or something similar. If you're hung up on nut sauce specifically, I believe this is the original stuff that gets rebranded with a silly high mark-up.

 

[Sacha]

To me, Evertune is one of the very few actual game-changing inventions in guitar technology since like the 70s or whatever. You'll see they are pretty popular with a lot of players / producers that record metal at a high level in the modern 'polished' styles. Because getting guitars perfectly in tune when recording is painstakingly difficult and annoying af. Yes there are some trade-offs, I wouldn't want it to be my ONLY guitar, but for recording rhythms in that style they are indispensable, to me.

 

[Nightside]

On the topic of nut sauce, please don't waste your money on guitar-specific shit. I use this to great success for half the price, it's a substantial amount more actual product and it lasts for-bloody-ever.

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IIRC Tom Anderson uses either the same stuff or something similar. If you're hung up on nut sauce specifically, I believe this is the original stuff that gets rebranded with a silly high mark-up.

The army gave me probably a lifetime's supply of CLP.

 

[Riverview]

Floyd > Evertune > Hardtail for tuning stability

 

[Narzog]

On hard tails, are the ones where the string goes through the body and comes out and then goes over the tiny bridge worse for stability than ones that dont? Sorry not sure the name of these. But my thought is, could it be similar to the string going over the nut.

To me, Evertune is one of the very few actual game-changing inventions in guitar technology since like the 70s or whatever. You'll see they are pretty popular with a lot of players / producers that record metal at a high level in the modern 'polished' styles. Because getting guitars perfectly in tune when recording is painstakingly difficult and annoying af. Yes there are some trade-offs, I wouldn't want it to be my ONLY guitar, but for recording rhythms in that style they are indispensable, to me.

I've noticed since looking at Evertunes that a lot of bands and people I listen to actually have Evertunes. Which is what got me thinking that if they are using them to record their best stuff, it could help my bad recordings be a bit better lmao.

 

[Gator]

Floyd > Evertune > Hardtail for tuning stability

I would completely disagree.

Specifically speaking the evertune keeps tuning by maintaining specific tension on the string. So that means micro changes in the string itself cannot really effect the tuning as if the evertune is in position two it will always keep the same tension ie same tuning per string.

Where a Floyd rose or any double locking tuner is based on the tension of every string. So changes in one string can make the others out of tune and vice versa. Which can happen even when it’s locked. Obviously not dramatically so much but you will at some point need to retune. More so if you are recording.

That being said I’m not going to say it’s the be all end all thing. It feels a bit different to play from any other bridge, bends themselves are probably the weirdest thing to get used to. However as others said it’s amazing for recording, but also live as no need to tune in front of the audience. Plus if the worst thing happens and a string breaks, you can change it immediately with only needing to get it back up to tension.

That being said I find it the best for extended range or really low tension drop tuning.

 

[RevDrucifer]

I love it.

Seeing a lot of the dismissal posts makes it evident that people either had one and never learned how to set it up properly (even if they think they did) or they didn’t use it in a setting where it shows it’s worth.

You can set an Evertune up to still bend and respond like a regular guitar. If someone says “bending feels weird”, it’s because they were between zones.

It IS possible to string it, tune it up, put it in the correct zone and then have it slip between zones, which is what I’m assuming is happening with a lot of people. The strings still stretch, you just won’t hear them go out of tune as it happens because the Evertune is Evertuning, so it just slips between zones. Usually a half turn of the tuning machine puts it back.

The Evertune comes with it’s own variety of “Strat trems don’t stay in tune”, “Floyds are a nightmare to setup”, “G-string on a Les Paul always goes out of tune” quips, all can be true if you don’t put the time into learning what you’re working with.

I’ll certainly have more guitars equipped with them.

 

[Rubbishplayer]

On the topic of nut sauce, please don't waste your money on guitar-specific shit. I use this to great success for half the price, it's a substantial amount more actual product and it lasts for-bloody-ever.

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IIRC Tom Anderson uses either the same stuff or something similar. If you're hung up on nut sauce specifically, I believe this is the original stuff that gets rebranded with a silly high mark-up.

That's a big plus one. Same for fretboard oil. One bottle of lemon oil is all you need for all the fretboards of all the guitars you have and will ever own.

 

[Gator]

You can set an Evertune up to still bend and respond like a regular guitar. If someone says “bending feels weird”, it’s because they were between zones.

I should put the caveat that bending feels weird at first, but similar to when you first learn to bend. There’s just a little uptick before the bend happens but after playing on one it does become second nature.

Of course it also depends on how you set it up to bend because you do have some leeway.

Long story short, yes they’re cool. Don’t get the hate.

 

[oversteve]

-Evertune is best for tuning stability
-floyd's also have amazing tuning stability

Floyds really have amazing tuning stability and evertune is essentially same system as a trem with an individual spring on each saddle so there's no contradiction here. Evertune is easier to setup without affecting other strings. But there are some issues. Since the mass of a separate saddle is less then of the whole bridge the sustain is somewhat dampened compared to other bridges. Bends might feel a bit strange and somewhat 'delayed' at first and might require getting used to - when bending first you essentially stretch the spring holding the saddle and only then when there's no more wiggle room the string starts stretching. And one really annoying thing - you might be locked into some exact string gauges for this or that tuning because of a small adjustment range of a saddle when it works as intended, if you take too light or too heavy strings for some tuning it will simply turn into a regular hardtail bridge.