I just can imagine some kind of LFO controling panning between neck and bridge PUs... Sounds great.
You can check at 3'31", after they talk about the Strat/Tele trem bridge.
That was interesting. In addition to the LesLee effect, I thought the side mounted truss rod adjustment was intriguing.
Haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I will say that that model of whammy bar has been used on the Jazzmaster, Jaguar, Mustang, and (IIRC) Bass VI - but not on Strats or Teles.
Peter
It would have been interesting if they varied the behind the bridge string length to create some kind of chord to drone with.
Quote from: gtrguy on January 13, 2019, 12:49:34 PMIt would have been interesting if they varied the behind the bridge string length to create some kind of chord to drone with.
A tailpiece with sliding anchors might make a variety of chords possible.
There is a history of behind the bridge pickups and guitars meant to sound that way. Check out Hans Reichel. He's made some incredible creations, aside from the infamous Daxophone.
I always liked the sound of the Coral electric sitar, which had drone strings on the body.
Quote from: gtrguy on January 14, 2019, 11:32:42 AM
I always liked the sound of the Coral electric sitar, which had drone strings on the body.
I bought the
Italia copy of one of those, the intonation was off by an inch and a half !!
Seems like the engineers measured string length to front of the buzz bridge, and called for a neck
scale that would never play in tune.
Well maybe only on the 14th fret (that was about where the ocatve was :o ). I sold the neck...gonna make some sonic contraption with the rest of it.
I had a Jerry Jones copy of the Coral Sitar. The drone pickup really didn't do much other than look cool. Warmoth makes necks with the side-adjusting truss rod. Definitely better than having to remove the neck. Old Gretschs used a similar adjusting mechanism which required a special tool. This one seems like a lot of work and extra electronics, (that can break), just to get an on-board version of a seldom used effect. Very cool while simultaneously somewhat impractical, IMHO.
Bill, tgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8uGNY2Qf9Y
Wow, Edwin, acoustic ring modulator!
Quote from: cozmik_cowboy on January 13, 2019, 12:36:24 PM
Haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I will say that that model of whammy bar has been used on the Jazzmaster, Jaguar, Mustang, and (IIRC) Bass VI - but not on Strats or Teles.
Peter
Peter, there are 2 guitars. Both with the Leslie thing, but you're right, the one you saw still at stoped video is kind of based on a Mustang.