I'd like to add a footnote that includes the FX Edge if you're not using a trem but want double locking. Love it on my RGA8.Tonewood isn't real/floyds are the best bridge to have ever been invented for an electric guitar /discussion
I'd like to add a footnote that includes the FX Edge if you're not using a trem but want double locking. Love it on my RGA8.Tonewood isn't real/floyds are the best bridge to have ever been invented for an electric guitar /discussion
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I'd like to add a footnote that includes the FX Edge if you're not using a trem but want double locking. Love it on my RGA8.
... Individually only with shims...(...)
If the saddles were height adjustable, this would probably be the best bridge for me.
This is a universal truth.The correct amount of guitars to own is one more than you currently own, right?
I see plenty of folks who love them and play them well, but for me even with the proper set up, doing bends on them just doesn't work like it's supposed to? I didn't think I had an eccentric way of bending or anything but I'll be damned if I can get the things to behave correctly. This could be something coincident with the ones I've tried, but they also seemed to have a dullness to the sound. The concept is great, the best implementation of a mechanical means of auto-tuning.
I'm not inept, I'm inconsiderate.
As far as why or why not Evertune? Either, but it's mostly a solution in search of a problem. For me, which is who I care about, I don't need their extra mechanical engineering because my guitars stay in tune very well. Even the ones with floating bridges. There are compromises and consolations to all three different bridge types, most of them minor. I see the ET bridge as a fad, but it does what it claims.
... in a way, the Evertune is one of those gadgets that solve a non existing problem... It's an interesting piece of engineering that balances strengths on a stretched string with a bunch of stretched springs, but so is a vibrato, either floating, Fender like or whatever else there is... However, those feel more useful to me than the previous, I'm yet to hear a surprising usage of this thing to a point that it can't be done with anything else. To each his own I guess...?These are fair.
Perhaps my infatuation with Evertune is firstly how some bad studio/recording experiences (e.g. working with a great but perfectionist producer) have made me incredibly neurotic - or given me a complex, so to speak - concerning tuning/intonation; since my bad experience, I look at my guitar recordings under the microscope, analysing every intonation imperfection (intonation is arguably as much about your playing as the setup); this is causing me to spend far too much time on stuff like comping the guitar takes for my next album. The second of course is the advantages on the road (albeit something I presently don't have to worry about), to a lesser extent. It at least sounds like people are absolutely loving it from a recording perspective as it largely eliminates the former problems.
However, there is what effect the whole strings sitting on a pivot dealy balanced by springs potentially has on tone, the tactile sensation under your palm versus say a Hipshot bridge, and the bending thing. It seems that even though you can adjust the 'give' of each string to bending, there is that apparently different bending behaviour, even on the loosest setting. This suggests its big advantage is limited to guitar parts involving no bending at all, where your picking or fretting might otherwise make notes go a few cents or so sharp.
I guess at the end of the day, we've just had decades of popular music with guitars that managed without that or frets that look like doctors' handwriting. Guitars being these planks of wood of an arbitrary scale length, with strings of different thicknesses stretched over them, straight frets positioned as close as possible to 12-tone equal temperament, with all the idiosyncrasies and intonation imperfections therein, etc etc, (you get the idea), and the Western layman's ear seems subconsciously more than accepting of that microtonal variance, if they even notice to begin with.
All the same, it's a neat invention, and I will monitor the long term experience of seasoned Evertune users with interest.
"The Evertune solves a problem that doesn't exist"
Yes, if you view it as a device that means you don't have to tune your guitar for weeks on end, but for me, in a recording situation, having endured the EXACT same experience as @NeglectedField . The problem is very real and very solved by the Evertune.
I can only speak for myself, and likewise the people that don't see the appeal can only speak for their own needs, but for me:
Pitch drift: I'm a heavy picker. I get pitch drift when playing lower frets on lower strings. Yes I could pick softer, or use thicker strings, but I don't want to. I can play these things carefully and not "over-play", but I don't want to. The Evertune means I can be as ham fisted as I want, and pick with Hulk strength, and the notes don't go sharp. Conversely there's an argument that the Evertune affects the attack of the note, so only time will tell whether that negates the solving of the pitch drift.
Tuning Stability: During recording sessions I've developed a picky ear. Again, not saying I'm God's gift to pitch recognition, but I'm better than I was, and I notice things that I don't like sometimes, and that I didn't notice in the past. There have been times when tracking and retracking certain parts, that neither myself nor my bassist (who records us) have picked up on tuning issues until we've listened back to that track in the mix. The guitar may have been perfectly in tune with itself, but a few cents flat. It's nice to have one less thing to worry about when recording. Is it a vital requirement? Not really, but its a nice luxury to have (akin to recording plain DI tracks and setting a guitar tone after the fact to ensure it fits in the mix). We record in our spare time as a hobby. We don't have a week to get a guitar tone using several different amps. Likewise we don't have weeks on end to track and retrack guitar parts.
Improved Intonation (Or for those pernickety people who like to point it out)
The Illusion of Improved Intonation: Is it my guitar setup? Playing style? Fretting hand pressure? String choice? Potentially, but with a guitar tuned to open strings, chords played up the neck have some duff notes in them. As a bit of a side effect of the Evertune balancing the tension to keep notes at the correct pitch, is that the notes for chords played up the neck are sweetened and spot on. Of course the intonation hasn't changed a bit, the bridge has just compensated for the sharp/flat notes. Could I have simply tuned to the fretted notes for that section before we recorded? Of course. But now I don't need to. People have made albums for years by tuning to the chord, recording section by section, using sweetened tunings, not caring etc, But here is a device that has meant I don't need to do that, I can just use the guitar I've been using all week, and just check its still in tune at the start of a session, and that the strings are in the correct zones.
It's definitely a luxury, but for me it addresses some very real problems.