tone deaf tuner upgrade

[tommyindelaware]

now thats some serious r&d bucks......
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[DrKev]

Wow. That makes it seem too easy. Am I just overly sceptical or does it seem too good to be true? Looking at their website it says that the locking tuners with servo motors weigh less than standard Gotoh tuners? Amazing!

 

[Larry]

I like my Peterson strobo stomp just fine for me.

 

[GWDavis28]

Tommy, that's pretty cool, but those tuners are huge man.

Glenn |B)

 

[wolfbone07]

Hey, maybe the added mass of the tuners will add sustain to the guitar!

 

[Mick]

Ok guys here it is:

It´s a german product as you hear in the guy´s english. Had the company in my store for a demonstration.
For the mass at the headstock, yeah a little bit but not too much.
But it retails for €700.-

And I asked the guy for what target group they make it because for beginners - way too much money.
A studio musician (like he aswered) Put it on 10+ guitars, ridiculous.

So it´s nice but as we all know you have to tune upwards from flat to the right note to keep the tuners stable and not from sharp to 0 cent. But this thing does it both ways as you can see.

I don´t see this product on a production guitar except on a futuristic small brand like Steinberger used to be in the 80ies.

 

[Pablo]

Well, I tried a Strat fitted with the system at a local shop and... blimey, it actually works!!! However, with a Danish price tag of 1100$, I am quite capable of tuning my own guitars...

Had I been a pro musician, however, the proposition mightn't sound as unreasonable: you'd always be in tune and would be able to go to any alternate tuning in just a few seconds.

Anyway: I think it's a brilliant product (albeit slightly aesthetically unpleasing), but it's just a bit too expensive to me as a hobby musician for what it does.

Cheers

Eske

 

[threeminutesboy]

that's great but after getting such system how do you justify to your wife that you need another guitar

but as tommy mentionned that's serious r&d

 

[jagged]

thats pretty cool

 

[SteveB]

That is a brilliant system. However, unless they can recoup their R&D very quickly and get the price down, I doubt they'll sell a lot of them. After all, tuning isn't really that big an inconvenience, is it?

It would be cool when recording though.. because I check my tuning before each take to ensure everything sounds consistent.

Plus, you have to admire somone trying something new.


Edit: it would be really cool if it tweaked the trussrod, too!

 

[Spudmurphy]

it seems to be a great idea and we need innovators to push the industry forward.

I like it - would I buy it? - Maybe if I was a pro musician.

Something similar has bee used by the master of slide Sonny Landreth, who had a Les Paul fitted with a servo controlled computerised tuning system enabling him to select a different open tuning at the touch of a button.

There are bootlegs about where Sonny can be heard using the system.

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[beej]

Yeah Spud- totally reminds me of that Transperformance tuning system - I remember Jimmy Page had one too and could press a button and have the guitar switch to preset alternate tunings.

This would be cool for that- replace the the push/pull pot with a pannel on the back of the headstock etc that lets you program a different tuning. Then press and retune quickly between songs.

This system looks slow, though. Whereas that other one was pretty quick- I remember seeing a demo where different tunings were selected during a song- the changeover was really cool.

 

[Spudmurphy]

Yeah Spud- totally reminds me of that Transperformance tuning system - I remember Jimmy Page had one too and could press a button and have the guitar switch to preset alternate tunings.

This would be cool for that- replace the the push/pull pot with a pannel on the back of the headstock etc that lets you program a different tuning. Then press and retune quickly between songs.

This system looks slow, though. Whereas that other one was pretty quick- I remember seeing a demo where different tunings were selected during a song- the changeover was really cool.

Yeah spot on Beej I forgot about the likes of Page - he was the first to use the system per the info on the website.
I seem to remember hearing an interview (I bleeb from a German radio show) with Sonny, and he was singing it's praises and he demo'd the system "on air".
I think I'll just stick to my open A and open E !!

 

[beej]

I think I'll just stick to my open A and open E !!

Yeah, for that money I'll just buy another MM and stick it in another tuning

 

[Jimmyb]

Wasn't the Page one something like a motorised Hipshot?

I quite like the idea of having one for open tuning, but I don't want to put one on my Sports. Maybe I need a beaten up one so I can try it?

 

[DrKev]

I wouldn't be surprised if they recoup their R&D money in other places - some if the innovations they came up with will be licensed elsewhere for other industries and technologies. Really, I can't see it selling much. At that price tag it takes the beginner/hobbyist out of the market but professionals should be able to tune properly themselves and have gear of high enough quality that it's not a major issue. Personally, I think compensated nuts are a bigger step forward.

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

Nice idea, but ugly tuning heads. I wonder if there are batteries in the tuning heads?

 

[Adwex]

Well, I'm an engineer so I think it's kinda cool, but why would I spend hundreds of dollars when I have a Korg tuner that cost around $40, and I have eyes to read the tuner, and I have hands to turn the tuners myself?

I'll stick to my current method.

 

[Spudmurphy]

It seems a good idea for somebody like Sonny Landreth who plays in a lot of different tunings, it saves him having to cart around loads of guitars on tour something that he admitted to in a radio interview but I agree that it it is a "tool" for the privileged few.

 

[puppyonacid]

What if they invent a guitar that plays itself?!?

Oh wait..........thatd be my JP6

If it catches on itll come down in price. Personally, I prefer the look of the technology in the new guitar by some other American company. Cant remember who it was......