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Post by Tungus on Jan 12, 2010 23:13:02 GMT -5
I havnt talked alot about my lil brainchild much.
Ive told Joel and steph about it. Steph has seen the guitar in person but it wasn't assembled at the time.
Pretty much what it is....(patent pending btw)....
It's a set of weights that slide on a rail inside the rear side of the body. What it does is changes the resonance of the guitar by up to 260 hz depending on where the weights reside on the rails.
Say a strat body has 60 grams movable 8.5 inches at the top of the body..... it makes the resonance more audible as it is slid to the front (neck side) of the body. Further back lessens the vibration.
I have this built into the axe I've been workin on for Joel, but on a larger scale. 3 rails with 275 grams. Its intended to be a studio instrument due to the amount of labor that goes into it just for subtle sound character changes.
In a nutshell.... you can run the standard strat type 3 pup/5 way switch setup and by changing the resonant freq of the body, you come up with 10 more different tones per weight setting on top of the stock tones depending on what pup setting you choose.
It works with active and passive designs equally well.
I'm not going to manufacture any of them until August of 2011. Joel Wanasek is going to be the sole reviewer and his direct input is what is going to determine exactly what will be available and what is not.
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Post by patril0mic on Jan 14, 2010 16:57:42 GMT -5
where on earth did you come up with that idea? sounds cool
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Post by Stefvorcide on Jan 16, 2010 10:10:39 GMT -5
Booze and metal were his inspiration \m/
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Post by Stefvorcide on Jan 16, 2010 10:10:55 GMT -5
oh and GEORGES LYNCH
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Post by Tungus on Jan 16, 2010 15:21:30 GMT -5
Booze and metal were his inspiration \m/ Good call \m/ Actually.... When I was at Harman, we (jim and I) were doing environmental and torture testing of the Kappa Perfect 10s and 12s. We kept hearing this annoying whistle coming from the driver. My facility did mostly cones and surrounds so thats what we were looking at. After dicking with that problem for 12 hrs, we went to the bar to brainstorm. Turns out, it wasnt our diaphragm making this bitch of a buzz. It was the basket assy (probably made on a monday by a hungover mexican @ Northridge). We made this rod and weight assy out of stainless and moved the weight around until we killed that buzz. After much fighting with the engineers we finally got a revision change...a ring machined into the bottom of the magnet plate. When you work for a large corp, any idea you come up with is then "owned" by that company and you get no credit for it. We never told them how we found the problem so it remains ours. Sneaky eh? Basically, we altered the resonant frequency of the entire speaker to make it work. Thats how 2 underpaid drunks made the audio world better and the idea for the guitar system came about.
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Post by Metal Dan on Jan 17, 2010 1:44:22 GMT -5
Tungus. I worship you. Holy shit, that's some cool stuff. Do keep us posted.
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Post by endless on Jan 19, 2010 17:08:27 GMT -5
Awesome stuff Tungus.
This could be great for down-tuning and 7/8 stringers.
Acoustic builders (particularly violin makers) obsess over resonances... it's great to see some work being done on solid bodies in this area.
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Post by Tungus on Jan 20, 2010 0:30:13 GMT -5
Awesome stuff Tungus. This could be great for down-tuning and 7/8 stringers. Acoustic builders (particularly violin makers) obsess over resonances... it's great to see some work being done on solid bodies in this area. I dont see why it couldnt be added to acoustics and other traditional stringed instruments. They already make 100% carbon fiber cellos and violins. I would love to see some of that licensing coin though. ;D
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Post by Metal Dan on Jun 27, 2010 14:01:46 GMT -5
Any further developments on this idea, Tungus?
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Post by Tungus on Jun 28, 2010 0:24:10 GMT -5
Any further developments on this idea, Tungus? Yes, but nothing anyone can use. Aside from what I do with it. I would love to disclose the info...but I wouldnt profit from it. I will say...more weight, the better the sustain. Ya just have to find the honey hole. It all balances out when you get it right. Youll know when you do.
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Post by Tungus on Sept 18, 2015 13:37:37 GMT -5
Still refining. Picked the project back up after a 4 year dormancy.
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