Your next guitar?

[Uncle E]

My opinion yes Eric. What I would like:

Sweet! Thank you!

Problem with a cheapy neck pickup is an EMG bridge will no longer be possible.

What would you think of having a single 707TW Dual Mode in the bridge? I'm wondering if you could tune your rig for the single coil mode, then switch to humbucker when you want highs rolled off.

[xtp]

I doubt there is a sound thing though I don't know for sure, sorry. I was referring to "hardware" as in tuners, bridge, etc. I don't have a problem with the way it looks at all, I just know from experience gold plated things wear off in parts.

I put a gold plated bridge on my acoustic [archtop] and it changed the sound, I returned to ebony bridge.

I have often wondered what a silver wound pickup sounds like in comparison to a normal pickup whether there is any audible difference. Gold would be too expensive but silver would be do-able price wise.

[Uncle E]

Speaking of that, the gravity storms were both standard metal

I'll have to send them a complaint.....the brass-ish plates look best!

The Norton has a brass plate and is the best pickup I've found for basswood body guitars.

[tapper mike]

I doubt there is a sound thing though I don't know for sure, sorry. I was referring to "hardware" as in tuners, bridge, etc. I don't have a problem with the way it looks at all, I just know from experience gold plated things wear off in parts.

I put a gold plated bridge on my acoustic [archtop] and it changed the sound, I returned to ebony bridge.

I have often wondered what a silver wound pickup sounds like in comparison to a normal pickup whether there is any audible difference. Gold would be too expensive but silver would be do-able price wise.

On an acoustic (unless it's a reso)generally you want the warmth of a traditional bridge/nut.
One thing I noticed about my old washburn falcon

That thing had the beefeist sustain I've ever experienced from passive electronics. And the brass nut made open strings ring clear and long while sounding more consistent with fretted notes.

Think about it what is a fret made out of? Metal. The character of the tone from a fretted note is affected by the fact that the metal acts like a nut. Ergo it only makes sense for consistency if your nut is made from the same material or at least similar to your frets.

[egbert]

Thru the body stringing like that (on the Washburn) would certainly help the bridge transmit the string vibes to the body. Brass is heavy and massive saddles/nuts suck highs compared to bone which is usually preferred for acoustic bridges and nuts.

[Uncle E]

Thru the body stringing like that (on the Washburn) would certainly help the bridge transmit the string vibes to the body

Through the body, 5-piece neck through, maple everywhere...it'd be hard for that thing not to sustain forever!

[egbert]

Thru the body stringing like that (on the Washburn) would certainly help the bridge transmit the string vibes to the body

Through the body, 5-piece neck through, maple everywhere...it'd be hard for that thing not to sustain forever!

Doesn't look to shabby either.

[xtp]

And the brass nut made open strings ring clear and long while sounding more consistent with fretted notes.

I have to admit I have never heard of a brass nut.

I have 2 nuts for my new neck, 3 if you count the one it came with.

I purchased a compensated nut, then got into a conversation with a [hopefully not self-appointed] guitar tech who reckoned they were a gimic. So I also have a black graphite one.

I will talk to my Luthier about it when I eventually get off my arse and put the project into action. Which at this point is unlikely to be this year.

I think sometimes when customising a guitar there are so many options and really the only way to know how you feel about it is to try it. Which can be a pain if you don't like what you have just done. [thinking choosing the wrong fret type here]

[Hink]

I doubt there is a sound thing though I don't know for sure, sorry. I was referring to "hardware" as in tuners, bridge, etc. I don't have a problem with the way it looks at all, I just know from experience gold plated things wear off in parts.

I put a gold plated bridge on my acoustic [archtop] and it changed the sound, I returned to ebony bridge.

I have often wondered what a silver wound pickup sounds like in comparison to a normal pickup whether there is any audible difference. Gold would be too expensive but silver would be do-able price wise.

On an acoustic (unless it's a reso)generally you want the warmth of a traditional bridge/nut.
One thing I noticed about my old washburn falcon

That thing had the beefeist sustain I've ever experienced from passive electronics. And the brass nut made open strings ring clear and long while sounding more consistent with fretted notes.

Think about it what is a fret made out of? Metal. The character of the tone from a fretted note is affected by the fact that the metal acts like a nut. Ergo it only makes sense for consistency if your nut is made from the same material or at least similar to your frets.

Daion wannabe




now with duncan pups



sorry mike, I just love my daion

[tapper mike]

Compensated nut?

I could see it if you had compensated frets to boot. Like the stuff Todd Keehn makes. He's a stickler for "super intonation" but he kind of went off the deep end when he went to perfect 5ths tunings and tried to fuse Rachmaninoff with Holdsworth and new age type stuff.



Yeah it's the most intune guitar I've ever heard but as far as his own musicallity (tk builds and plays instruments) It can't compare to his ztar days. I used to think I wanted one of those tk built guitars but not anymore. Especially not if I had to tune it to 5ths.

[xtp]

Compensated nut?

Hi Mike,

I just fished it out of the box, its by a company called Earvana, whose website no longer appears to work and I just read on google they lost a patent case with ernie-ball back in 2011.

[hibidy]

Compensated nuts. I remember!

My stingray had one. Didn't really like it. My Axis had one, didn't really like it. My jazz bass I had BF put on, I liked that. But I had a tuner that tuned "buzz Fieten" so that probably helped.

I feel it's VERY difficult to get the EB/MM compensated nuts to intonate properly. I even tried a MM/EB steve morse recently and was really frustrated trying to get it "in tune" for me.

[xtp]

Compensated nuts. I remember!

My stingray had one. Didn't really like it. My Axis had one, didn't really like it. My jazz bass I had BF put on, I liked that. But I had a tuner that tuned "buzz Fieten" so that probably helped.

I feel it's VERY difficult to get the EB/MM compensated nuts to intonate properly. I even tried a MM/EB steve morse recently and was really frustrated trying to get it "in tune" for me.

Thats interesting that you did not like them.

I am going to use the standard nut anyway. I remember reading after I purchasaed it, they come into their own if you;

[a] use open chords a lot and

...there was a , but unfortunately the port seems to have addled my brain this afternoon.

...I never use open chords, and seldom use open notes so it does not overly apply to me.

[hibidy]

I have a bunch of ibanez guitars. Some are fixed bridge, some are trem, and I DO NOT have an a tuning issue, so in older years I use that as a benchmark

Again though, the buzz fieten was OK. I didn't have strange tuning issues but again, I had a strobo peterson that compensated when intonating and tuning

I think, compensated should have it's own brand of tuning temperance, I never found one that worked really well with the two EB/MM's.

[Hink]

pay me and I'll be a compensated nut