Shane_B. Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 It's a whammy bar and more. I see it works great on an Acoustisonic. ??? But seriously, this would be fun and very useful to have. Too bad you can't set it to work with only one or two strings to get that Clarence White sound. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheens Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 I'm thinking of getting this for divebombs on my drop D shortscale electoacoustic ukulele bass. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 4 hours ago, Sheens said: I'm thinking of getting this for divebombs on my drop D shortscale electoacoustic ukulele bass. Will it work on my banjo too? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveStrummerUK Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 3 minutes ago, Bapu said: 4 hours ago, Sheens said: I'm thinking of getting this for divebombs on my drop D shortscale electoacoustic ukulele bass. Will it work on my banjo too? One-string banjo? ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveStrummerUK Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 (edited) Cool bit of kit for sure. Only downside for me would be the 3M type adhesive pads and whether removing the base would affect the finish of the guitar. Assuming the whammy unit itself doesn't interact directly with the string vibrations (i.e. I'm guessing its positioning directly behind the bridge is for familiarity), why not glue it onto the scratch plate (if the guitar has one). If these become popular enough, and assuming players prefer them placed at/in the bridge as per mechanical units, it would surely be worthwhile the investment from them to sell guitar-specific attachments which could maybe share the bridge-fixing screws? Edited October 9, 2021 by SteveStrummerUK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheens Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 iirc this feature (without the need of hardware unit) was in 2014 update of GuitarHero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheens Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 53 minutes ago, Bapu said: Will it work on my banjo too? the one with the robo tuners, ya ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 $499, IDK seems a tad steep to me*. But, you get two saddles. I can only imagine the hoops you'll need to jump through to get extra saddles. * I might just wait for the Behringer version. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane_B. Posted October 10, 2021 Author Share Posted October 10, 2021 12 hours ago, SteveStrummerUK said: Cool bit of kit for sure. Only downside for me would be the 3M type adhesive pads and whether removing the base would affect the finish of the guitar. Assuming the whammy unit itself doesn't interact directly with the string vibrations (i.e. I'm guessing its positioning directly behind the bridge is for familiarity), why not glue it onto the scratch plate (if the guitar has one). If these become popular enough, and assuming players prefer them placed at/in the bridge as per mechanical units, it would surely be worthwhile the investment from them to sell guitar-specific attachments which could maybe share the bridge-fixing screws? One concern that popped in to my mind was I would be afraid I'd pull it off the guitar. I'm so used to the tension of a real bar I feel like I would probably break it. And yes, I was wondering how it would effect the finish too. With all the software innovation now days I can't imagine it would be too hard to isolate the effects of this to the B and E strings to emulate a steel guitar. I'm working on a very old band demo my band and I did back in the early 90's. It's from a Tascam 8 track tape transfer. We mixed down the backup vocals on to a single track. Melodyne is detecting the two vocals on the single track and letting me pitch correct each vocal separately. I would think they could do something like that with this in real time. I saw an interview with Joni Mitchell one time and she said she used something on stage to alter tunings real time. Can't remember if it was hardware or software based. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertWS Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 (edited) I wonder if it's named after Jeff Beck....master of the whammy. Edited October 10, 2021 by RobertWS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane_B. Posted October 10, 2021 Author Share Posted October 10, 2021 (edited) Fix Ed. Edited October 10, 2021 by Shane_B. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertWS Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 Yep, just fixed it while you were posting. Go to bed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 It's gotta be at least as good as a digital beer, ya? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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