I'm gonna cut up one of the other pickguards I had made for me so that I can have all of the internal components open to me for troubleshooting, then once the MIDI parts and acoustiphonic stuff works properly, MAYBE I'll think about a Bigsby. But probably not.
It's really weird, I'll play it for an hour or two, and that warms the neck up to around the same temperature as my hand, then I stop playing for a while and it cools down and fucks up the tuning.
I'm gonna cut up one of the other pickguards I had made for me so that I can have all of the internal components open to me for troubleshooting, then once the MIDI parts and acoustiphonic stuff works properly, MAYBE I'll think about a Bigsby. But probably not.
It's really weird, I'll play it for an hour or two, and that warms the neck up to around the same temperature as my hand, then I stop playing for a while and it cools down and fucks up the tuning.
Are those DR colored strings?
Maybe some locking tuners are in order for the tuning problem?
scandoslav wrote:i heard these are wank when it comes to metal
I dunno, it's different than anything I've played before. I can't tune it by harmonics, either. It's perfectly intonated but the only way I've found I can tune it by ear is to check each string against the next's 5ths for any nasty beat notes.
handen wrote:I dunno, it's different than anything I've played before. I can't tune it by harmonics, either. It's perfectly intonated but the only way I've found I can tune it by ear is to check each string against the next's 5ths for any nasty beat notes.
But then it plays like a monster.
Is that a matter of the harmonics not being loud enough for you to hear them?
handen wrote:I dunno, it's different than anything I've played before. I can't tune it by harmonics, either. It's perfectly intonated but the only way I've found I can tune it by ear is to check each string against the next's 5ths for any nasty beat notes.
But then it plays like a monster.
Is that a matter of the harmonics not being loud enough for you to hear them?
Nope. I can use a tuner to tune it, or do it by harmonics, but when I play a chord it sounds awful. So I play E and A at fret 5 and 7, A and D and fret 5 and 7 etc etc (except D and B at fret 5 and 8 ) and tune until there aren't any beat notes. I'm lucky in the way that I don't think I have perfect pitch, but I have good enough ears to be able to fix what's wrong in such an unconventional way.
I knew a guy who couldn't tune by harmonics ad he'd been playing for 15 years... It was sad.
MaMo wrote:Are those DR colored strings?
Maybe some locking tuners are in order for the tuning problem?
Yeah, the strings look terrible... I don't like the red ones, but I thought I'd give it a go since the guitar is all red. I'll throw some black ones on after I go back in to troubleshoot.
Cool. So you're tuning by knowing what a fifth sounds like. Interesting. Did you ever play the violin? That's what violinists have to do (their strings are that same interval apart, and they have no frets (obviously) so they just have to know what a fifth sounds like).
shame abotu the tuning issue, but maybe some 13's would fix that...
although with the neck warming up and cooling down it might just end up being an ongoing issue.
handen wrote:
It's really weird, I'll play it for an hour or two, and that warms the neck up to around the same temperature as my hand, then I stop playing for a while and it cools down and fucks up the tuning.
I really liked the idea of metal guitar necks and thought one day I would own one. even thinking of putting one on my Jaazmaster. but this has put me right off. fuck tuning issues. that's redick.
handen wrote:
It's really weird, I'll play it for an hour or two, and that warms the neck up to around the same temperature as my hand, then I stop playing for a while and it cools down and fucks up the tuning.
I really liked the idea of metal guitar necks and thought one day I would own one. even thinking of putting one on my Jaazmaster. but this has put me right off. fuck tuning issues. that's redick.
Meh, I think that if you had a Jaguar or Mustang trem and had to retune every tume you picked it up that'd be a nightmare, but with a stop tailpiece and tunomatic I don't think it'd be a problem.
handen wrote:
It's really weird, I'll play it for an hour or two, and that warms the neck up to around the same temperature as my hand, then I stop playing for a while and it cools down and fucks up the tuning.
I really liked the idea of metal guitar necks and thought one day I would own one. even thinking of putting one on my Jaazmaster. but this has put me right off. fuck tuning issues. that's redick.
Meh, I think that if you had a Jaguar or Mustang trem and had to retune every tume you picked it up that'd be a nightmare, but with a stop tailpiece and tunomatic I don't think it'd be a problem.
Interesting stuff, i'm quite suprised the Metal climatizing knocks the tuning out to that degree. Wood also climatizes and changes shape with temperature as we know, but obviously not enough to be audible to out ears.
I wonder hoe graphite necks fair with temperature change, hmm, i may ask Chico...
