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BP and crew, you guys have spoiled me.

DrKev

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I spent today in a recording studio doing guitar tech for a recording session. The engineer/producer is a buddy of mine and was going through hell with this guys guitars. Intonation was so far out on virtually all of them I have no idea how they got any takes done at all before today. And he was trying to tune with a TU-2 and then by ear when the guitars went out again. Oh, the humanity!! It was just awful. The guy was a great player but surprisingly didn't have a clue where any sort of setup stuff was concerned.

I one point I said "Hey Nic, who has the largest collection of Music Man guitars that you know? Just call him and get those damn guitars in here! Seriously!". He laughed and agreed. Unfortunately this guy insisted on all his vintage 'reissue' stuff. Most of them wouldn't intonate well, the one that did intonate perfectly just wouldn't stay in tune for more than 15 seconds at a time. I worked on five guitars today, he had about a dozen guitars in there total, and not one was doing the job for him. And no Ernie Ball strings to be seen either, to talk about making a bad job worse.

One grateful customer later, the moral of the story is that a good tuner and a good guitar tech are worth their combined weight in gold when you're recording, and I sure earned my money today!

I feel really spoiled by the quality, tone, and overall "ease of life" with EBMM. I am so grateful that I don't have to go through that kind of hassle any more. Thank you so very much, EBMM!
 
You're absolutely right, you get used to how easy these guitars are. Very hard to deal with guitars that aren't..
 
I've learned enough that I can get and keep most any guitar in tune that exists. (lube on string contact points and string stretching isn't rocket science). But when I go to tune up one of my MM guitars with locking tuners, I am done so much sooner, I sometimes sit there saying out loud "That's it?".
 
I've literally showed up at gigs or at a session pulled out my guitar and go to tune up and I'm done faster then it took for me to pull the guitar out of its case..lol.. Sometimes having it just holds it tune.. Like tonight I took my SBMM ax30 to a gig.. Quite literally changed the strings and cleaned her off like a hour before, laced her up tuned her up and headed out the door.. Well, I reached the venue popped on a snork tuner at "boom" still in tune! I wasn't surprised cause all my Musicman guitars are that way, not to mention how great those Cobalts are too.. Simply and literally amazing!
 
Couldnt agree more i recently changed my strings on my JP and set it up myself and the intonation is perfect.These guitars are a dream to own and play of course!
 
I have to agree. I've probably saved lots of cold hard cash because I can set up my Music Man guitars myself. My LIII and Morse Y2D will stay with me until the end. Thank you Everyone @ Music Man !
 
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