Matt from EverTune here. Thanks for this great video and for your careful, meticulous work! EverTune is great on expensive instruments, but how it transforms cheap guitars is truly mind blowing, and you showed that here. Thanks again!
Matt, thanks for watching! Glad you like the project video. I must say, I'm very impressed with the fit and finish of the Evertune bridge. Only minor issue I encountered was the body thickness being 1/16" short of the recommended 1.75". I'll be making a custom heat-formed back cover for this guitar in the future, just to offer clearance without the back plate being smashed against the mechanism. This guitar will also undergo a major mod of some flavor... should be fun. Hope all is well for you, be safe and take care!
Hey Matt, thanks for watching! I just had an image of an old chevy sedan, faded paint, cracked windshield, with big chrome rims and skinny rubber all around, cruisin' down the street. LOL, my mind wonders. Hope all is well, be safe and take care!
You know, an amateur performs a task, because he/she loves performing the task, it does not mean, an amateur is bad at performing the task. Sometimes amateurs are better in doing this than some professionals. You are of the latter part of amateurs. Once again, a pleasure to watch your video.
Achim, good to hear from you and thanks for watching! Many thanks for the kind words, much appreciated. I keep trying to up my game a bit. Glad you enjoyed the project, it went pretty well. Hope you're doing well, be safe and take care!
@@oldmanzen6682 , maybe not now, but one day, you'll regret those word's. Randy tried to speak truth and got rejected. One day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord.
OldManZen, thanks for watching! I try to keep it clean, this one went pretty well. Seems like every project has a point where I want to walk away from it. Darkest before the dawn and all that. Hope all is well, be safe and take care!
Surreal to watch those bends without a change in pitch. Here I thought this project might be doable without any sanding, but looks like you had a bit of smoothing-out to do after that rasp!
Hey Mark, thanks for watching. I always try to find a little sanding to throw in. Not a real project with some sanding, right? Hope all is well, take care!
Hey Mike, good to hear from you! Once the bendy part is dialed in, it can do blues. I'll let the lady know you say Hi. Hope you are doing well. Be safe and take care my friend!
Connor, thanks for watching! Yes, this guitar had a few little surprises for me. The lock-washer/spacers was a laugh for sure. I have to guess, the body wood is rather soft, and without a neck plate the neck screws were just sinking in and crushing the neck pocket wood. A custom "fix" sort of, lol. I'll fix that and other things in a future mod. Just enjoying the everyone, haven't had to "tune-it" since the original setup. That's pretty cool. Hope all is well, be safe and take care!
@theNextProject I was thinking that too, but don't the Gios come stock without a neck plate? Man idk, I know it doesn't actually matter, but I'm fully invested now hahahaha
@@theNextProject lmao such a strange design element. Hell, even fenders have a neck plate, and they use hard woods like ash (great tool handle wood too, btw) and alder
Yep, the "zone 2 and zone 3" tuning. This is an interesting piece of engineering. I imaging there are people who don't bend, or maybe only want certain strings to be bendy... Pretty amazing bunch of steel and springs.
Hey John, great video. Definitely not anything i can do. Here's a tip for the amateurs here, have a larger drill press, some drilling that is required will mean that clearance is needed. I have a small drill press and csnnot fit thr body at many positions. Good advice i think.
Hey Randy, thanks for watching! Drill presses are a great tool. This is one of those medium size jobs. If I had the room, and money, I'd like a large full-size floor version. Maybe someday, or not. IDK We work with what we have and find work-arounds for obstacles we encounter. All good. Hope you are doing well. Be safe and take care!
Hello John, as always a great pleasure to watch your video! I am not pretty sure whether I ever need evertune. But I am happy that You do the testing for us! Thanks for that! I had to look up what is meant with the zones. Ok understood. What is your impression? How is build quality of your Gio Ibanez compared to other guitars in that price range e.g. a cheap Squier? Btw. I suggest to build a headless guitar for your tNP. Stay safe and take care Jens
Jens, good to hear from you! Thanks for watching too. I am a really lazy "player", often find myself tuned to...myself, not the real world. The Evertune is a really cool piece of engineering, and somehow does what it says. It keeps a guitar in tune, if set up correctly. I am really fascinated by how well the new strings stayed tuned, even without stretching them. The ET seemed to soak up the stretching strings and kept this cheap guitar in tune. The only real issue I had/have, is the back plate. Since this guitar is 1/16" thinner that is needs to be, the ET mechanism contacts the back plate and gives it just a little bow outwards. Not really a dealbreaker, just something to be aware of. I'm going to make a custom heat-formed back plate with just enough coutour to get around the mechanism. This Ibanez GIO is actually a pretty good guitar, but it appears that it had been setup at one point in its life. The action was supper low, fretboard straight and no buzzing. The hardtail bridge was solid, but the small allen saddle adjustment screws needed to be cut down, as the E & e screws protuded out the top of the saddles and cut into my palm. Not really an issue, but would need to be corrected. A couple of the tuners were less than good, and the nut... I have no idea what was going on there. Guessing it was set up for 9's, and 10 or 11's were put on it. I did clean the string slots and the guitar currently has 10's on it, no issues. So, a headless guitar. Hmm, I think I've see a kit. Hope all is well, take care my friend!
huh, i'd written the evertune off as gimmicky not realising that it can be set to allow bends. I can see where this would speed up the recording process to always have your instrument at the correct pitch. Did you notice much of a change in tone of the instrument after routing away so much more of the wood? Nice work on the guitar and the Video production as always.
STaipari , thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed the project delivery. I'm with you on your original concern, that's what I thought too. This entire project was a bit of a fluke, a non-sense project. The cheapest guitar I could find, just to test an installation process and the bridge in question. Ha, that's me, no good reason projects. I'm really pleased with the quality of build, machining, fit and finish of the bridge. I appreciate the engineering and thought that went into it. I'm not much of a player, so this device is largely wasted on me. Yet at the same time, I'm typically tuned to "myself" and not the rest of the world. I am lazy, and I admit it. This will be my one guitar that is "in tune", even if I break a string. As for noticing a tone change, this was probably the wrong guitar to A/B test that on. While it is a pretty good $50 guitar... it's a $50 guitar. It has/had the cheapest list of ingredients from tip to tail. It actually sounds better now, but that is likely because I fixed the nut and tuners. Other components will be upgraded during a future "mod project" - stay tuned (no pun intended). The action can be set really low, actually too low with this bridge, but may be limited to what the neck angle will allow, as with most guitars. I had all strings down to 1mm, but that's largely unplayable as the oscillation of the strings jangle all across the fretboard. Right now I've got it at a fat 1.5mm "E", and 1.35mm "e" at the 12th. Might be a hair tighter at the 22nd as I don't think there is much fallaway on this neck. A heavy hand will still jangle the stings, but the neck and frets are surprisingly good. Still testing, gotta find what feels good to me. Very interested in the fact that a broken or missing string, makes no difference in the tuning of the other strings. I expect the neck relief may change ever so slightly with a missing string, but all remaining strings seemed to be spot on. Hmm, what else. Replacing a string is effortless. Put it in, tune up to zone 3 "bend zone" and forget about it. It just seems to stay in tune. Interesting. It appears that once initial setup "tune up, intonation, action" are done, swapping out a string, or stings is a breeze. I may be wrong about that, but so far that's what it looks like. Hope this helps. Be safe and take care!
Another great video. So much work. Did you do anything with the tight nut slots? I know I should know that you couldn't leave that and have any level of real tuneability even with the Evertune. Thanks again and Stay Safe!!
Hans, thanks for watching! Yep, I prepped the nut before I put new strings on it... also put a new set of locking tuners on if for good measure. The factory tuners were a bit sketchy. This Evertune thingy is pretty cool, a lot of engineering going on in there. How do people figure this stuff out? Take care my friend!
Are there drawings that you can print and stick on to mdf to make the templates? The drawings i found on their website seem to be of the whole cavity rather than the separate templates
Darryl, thanks for watching! Here is where I found the drawings that I used. I then cleaned them up a bit, but basically if they are printed at 100% scale, you should be able to make them work. www.evertune.com/resources/for_installers.php F&T model: www.evertune.com/resources/instructions_drawings_and_CAD_for_bridge_installation.php F model routing dimension pdf: www.evertune.com/resources/instructions_drawings_and_CAD/PDF/EVERTUNE__F6-Routing-Dimensions__2017e01.pdf T model routing dimension pdf: www.evertune.com/resources/instructions_drawings_and_CAD/PDF/EVERTUNE__T_Routing_Dimensions__2017e01.pdf Basically, all other models have similar pdfs, step, and dxf files available. I'm thinking of putting together a video showing the process I used to make my templates. Let me know if you think that would be worthwhile. Good luck with your projects!
LOL, thank you Steve! Thanks for watching too. Hope you enjoyed the project, it was pretty interesting to see how the Evertune mechanism was put together and how well it does what it claims. Cool engineering. Hope all is well, be safe and take care!
nasticannasta, thanks for watching! A proper setup is a good thing, that is for certain! I guess another way to look at it might be, while the other guitars are in the case, this guitar could be getting played for months and still be in tune. I find the engineering, thought and development of such things very interesting. I was amazed how it soaked up string stretch and stayed in tune, and how removing any string didn't change the tuning. I really figured neck movement would throw tuning off, but it didn't seem to. I'm sure the action shifted a bit when I removed strings, but remaining strings stayed in tune. Interesting stuff, to me. This kinda thing isn't for everyone, price alone is a big concern. Still, I kinda like what it can do. I also enjoy the process of working on the guitar itself, learning new approaches, one thing leads to another. A journey down a different path some days, new scenery, all good. Hope all is well for you. Be safe and take care!
Even well set up guitars will go out of tune from strings stretching, temperature and humidity changes, over-fretting, and monster string bends. EverTune eliminates all of those issues. I encourage you to try it and see.
Exactly! For no good reason, is reason enough. I now have one of the most expensive high-tech $50 guitars on the planet, LOL. You got me laughin! Thanks for watching, hope all is well, be safe and take care!
Wow, that's one hell of a complicated method to restrict creativity. I couldn't possibly go through all of that work to then be denied bending notes without 'tricking' it first. A great video John, but the Evertune is not for me.
LOL, hey Martin, thanks for watching! I like the way you put that, good stuff. Once all the "tricking" is accomplished, it's pretty much set up. You can remove (break) a string, and the rest of the strings won't budge a bit, they stay in tune. Put a new string on, twist the tuner and it goes from flat to being in tune pretty quickly. I hear ya, it's not for everyone. I do find all the engineering pretty fascinating. Hope you are doing well, be safe and take care!
That’s rather cool! Kinda wish I hadn’t sold on my Hipshot mechanical multi-tuning Tele bridge thingy, which was some mighty complex engineering. But then I remembered: my woodworking is even poorer than my soldering, and it’d still be sitting in its box after another 15+ years. I will get around to putting the Bigsby I bought at the same time on an actual guitar tho’. Roll on The Next Project!
I encourage you to try EverTune and then decide if it is right for you. For thousands of top players and producers EverTune enhances creativity. Never tuning up when you grab your guitar, no retuning between takes in the studio, perfect intonation all the way up the neck, playing a gig in direct sunlight and never going out of tune, and being able to slap a capo on with no retuning whatsoever. As for bending, there's no trickery involved. You simply dial the string in to the proper spot much like you would on any guitar and you're good to go.
Thanks for watching! I find the engineering very interesting. True that it may be a solution to a problem that wasn't, accept for a tuning issue. Some instruments like to detune more-so than others. Be safe and take care!
I thought I replied to this but now I don't see it. Apologies if I'm repeating myself. Going out of tune has been a problem ever since there were guitars. Temperature and humidity changes, huge bends, squeezing too hard, strings stretching out can all cause a guitar to go our of tune. EverTune solves all of those problems and provides perfect intonation all the way up the neck (by maintaining constant tension on the strings). Give it a try and see if it's right for you.
Matt from EverTune here. Thanks for this great video and for your careful, meticulous work! EverTune is great on expensive instruments, but how it transforms cheap guitars is truly mind blowing, and you showed that here. Thanks again!
Matt, thanks for watching!
Glad you like the project video.
I must say, I'm very impressed with the fit and finish of the Evertune bridge.
Only minor issue I encountered was the body thickness being 1/16" short of the recommended 1.75". I'll be making a custom heat-formed back cover for this guitar in the future, just to offer clearance without the back plate being smashed against the mechanism.
This guitar will also undergo a major mod of some flavor... should be fun.
Hope all is well for you, be safe and take care!
Great work, making a dumpster guitar into someone's daily driver is awesome
Hey Matt, thanks for watching!
I just had an image of an old chevy sedan, faded paint, cracked windshield, with big chrome rims and skinny rubber all around, cruisin' down the street.
LOL, my mind wonders.
Hope all is well, be safe and take care!
@@theNextProjectna 79 pontiac firebird bigblock
That's pretty nice to start from the dumpster, to daily driver.
You know, an amateur performs a task, because he/she loves performing the task, it does not mean, an amateur is bad at performing the task. Sometimes amateurs are better in doing this than some professionals.
You are of the latter part of amateurs.
Once again, a pleasure to watch your video.
Achim, good to hear from you and thanks for watching!
Many thanks for the kind words, much appreciated.
I keep trying to up my game a bit.
Glad you enjoyed the project, it went pretty well.
Hope you're doing well, be safe and take care!
Christ, you do clean work. Very impressive. I'd have given up long before a second gig was needed.
Please, don't bring Him into this. Perhaps say, Buda. He won't be hurt cause hes dead.
@@ranman58635 Saying Christ won't hurt either, cause he's fiction. ;)
@@oldmanzen6682 , maybe not now, but one day, you'll regret those word's. Randy tried to speak truth and got rejected. One day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord.
OldManZen, thanks for watching!
I try to keep it clean, this one went pretty well.
Seems like every project has a point where I want to walk away from it.
Darkest before the dawn and all that.
Hope all is well, be safe and take care!
Erased my comment?
Evertune on a Gio! 😂
Only on “the next project” !
I can only describe this as…
awesome-sauce!
Thank you for the detailed step-by-step!
"awesome-sauce!" LOL, made me laugh - thanks!
If I remember correctly,Agufish put one on a Hello Kitty strat copy.
Ah, darn. He's outdone me!
@@theNextProject hell no, he sent it out to get done by evertune, that doesn’t count!
you’re still the diy king!
Surreal to watch those bends without a change in pitch.
Here I thought this project might be doable without any sanding, but looks like you had a bit of smoothing-out to do after that rasp!
Hey Mark, thanks for watching.
I always try to find a little sanding to throw in.
Not a real project with some sanding, right?
Hope all is well, take care!
A blues player would just love this setup 🤔🤔🤔 Hi Laura 😆
Hey Mike, good to hear from you!
Once the bendy part is dialed in, it can do blues.
I'll let the lady know you say Hi. Hope you are doing well.
Be safe and take care my friend!
Lets be honest here, lock washers for neck bolts is PSYCHOTIC lmfao i had to rewatch it
Connor, thanks for watching!
Yes, this guitar had a few little surprises for me.
The lock-washer/spacers was a laugh for sure. I have to guess, the body wood is rather soft, and without a neck plate the neck screws were just sinking in and crushing the neck pocket wood.
A custom "fix" sort of, lol.
I'll fix that and other things in a future mod.
Just enjoying the everyone, haven't had to "tune-it" since the original setup. That's pretty cool.
Hope all is well, be safe and take care!
@theNextProject I was thinking that too, but don't the Gios come stock without a neck plate? Man idk, I know it doesn't actually matter, but I'm fully invested now hahahaha
Yep, no neck plate on the Gio. Soft wood, no plate... Squish. Lol
@@theNextProject lmao such a strange design element. Hell, even fenders have a neck plate, and they use hard woods like ash (great tool handle wood too, btw) and alder
That was the weirdest ending I've ever seen. Couldn't wrap my mind around it. The bends were not there and then they were. Whoa!
Yep, the "zone 2 and zone 3" tuning.
This is an interesting piece of engineering. I imaging there are people who don't bend, or maybe only want certain strings to be bendy...
Pretty amazing bunch of steel and springs.
@@theNextProject definitely. I like the middle three strings to bend.
This contraption would do it.
Set those three to bend and the others to not change pitch.
Hey John, great video. Definitely not anything i can do. Here's a tip for the amateurs here, have a larger drill press, some drilling that is required will mean that clearance is needed. I have a small drill press and csnnot fit thr body at many positions. Good advice i think.
Hey Randy, thanks for watching!
Drill presses are a great tool. This is one of those medium size jobs.
If I had the room, and money, I'd like a large full-size floor version.
Maybe someday, or not. IDK
We work with what we have and find work-arounds for obstacles we encounter.
All good.
Hope you are doing well.
Be safe and take care!
@@theNextProject , life is good my friend. Rare for me to say that. Thanks for responding.
Hello John,
as always a great pleasure to watch your video! I am not pretty sure whether I ever need evertune. But I am happy that You do the testing for us! Thanks for that! I had to look up what is meant with the zones. Ok understood.
What is your impression? How is build quality of your Gio Ibanez compared to other guitars in that price range e.g. a cheap Squier?
Btw. I suggest to build a headless guitar for your tNP.
Stay safe and take care
Jens
Jens, good to hear from you!
Thanks for watching too.
I am a really lazy "player", often find myself tuned to...myself, not the real world.
The Evertune is a really cool piece of engineering, and somehow does what it says. It keeps a guitar in tune, if set up correctly. I am really fascinated by how well the new strings stayed tuned, even without stretching them. The ET seemed to soak up the stretching strings and kept this cheap guitar in tune.
The only real issue I had/have, is the back plate. Since this guitar is 1/16" thinner that is needs to be, the ET mechanism contacts the back plate and gives it just a little bow outwards. Not really a dealbreaker, just something to be aware of.
I'm going to make a custom heat-formed back plate with just enough coutour to get around the mechanism.
This Ibanez GIO is actually a pretty good guitar, but it appears that it had been setup at one point in its life. The action was supper low, fretboard straight and no buzzing. The hardtail bridge was solid, but the small allen saddle adjustment screws needed to be cut down, as the E & e screws protuded out the top of the saddles and cut into my palm. Not really an issue, but would need to be corrected.
A couple of the tuners were less than good, and the nut... I have no idea what was going on there. Guessing it was set up for 9's, and 10 or 11's were put on it.
I did clean the string slots and the guitar currently has 10's on it, no issues.
So, a headless guitar. Hmm, I think I've see a kit.
Hope all is well, take care my friend!
huh, i'd written the evertune off as gimmicky not realising that it can be set to allow bends. I can see where this would speed up the recording process to always have your instrument at the correct pitch. Did you notice much of a change in tone of the instrument after routing away so much more of the wood? Nice work on the guitar and the Video production as always.
STaipari , thanks for watching!
Glad you enjoyed the project delivery.
I'm with you on your original concern, that's what I thought too.
This entire project was a bit of a fluke, a non-sense project.
The cheapest guitar I could find, just to test an installation process and the bridge in question.
Ha, that's me, no good reason projects.
I'm really pleased with the quality of build, machining, fit and finish of the bridge.
I appreciate the engineering and thought that went into it. I'm not much of a player, so this device is largely wasted on me.
Yet at the same time, I'm typically tuned to "myself" and not the rest of the world. I am lazy, and I admit it.
This will be my one guitar that is "in tune", even if I break a string.
As for noticing a tone change, this was probably the wrong guitar to A/B test that on.
While it is a pretty good $50 guitar... it's a $50 guitar. It has/had the cheapest list of ingredients from tip to tail.
It actually sounds better now, but that is likely because I fixed the nut and tuners. Other components will be upgraded during a future "mod project" - stay tuned (no pun intended).
The action can be set really low, actually too low with this bridge, but may be limited to what the neck angle will allow, as with most guitars. I had all strings down to 1mm, but that's largely unplayable as the oscillation of the strings jangle all across the fretboard. Right now I've got it at a fat 1.5mm "E", and 1.35mm "e" at the 12th. Might be a hair tighter at the 22nd as I don't think there is much fallaway on this neck. A heavy hand will still jangle the stings, but the neck and frets are surprisingly good. Still testing, gotta find what feels good to me.
Very interested in the fact that a broken or missing string, makes no difference in the tuning of the other strings. I expect the neck relief may change ever so slightly with a missing string, but all remaining strings seemed to be spot on. Hmm, what else.
Replacing a string is effortless. Put it in, tune up to zone 3 "bend zone" and forget about it. It just seems to stay in tune. Interesting.
It appears that once initial setup "tune up, intonation, action" are done, swapping out a string, or stings is a breeze. I may be wrong about that, but so far that's what it looks like.
Hope this helps.
Be safe and take care!
Another great video. So much work. Did you do anything with the tight nut slots? I know I should know that you couldn't leave that and have any level of real tuneability even with the Evertune. Thanks again and Stay Safe!!
Hans, thanks for watching!
Yep, I prepped the nut before I put new strings on it... also put a new set of locking tuners on if for good measure. The factory tuners were a bit sketchy.
This Evertune thingy is pretty cool, a lot of engineering going on in there.
How do people figure this stuff out?
Take care my friend!
Ibanez Gio with 273 hole weight relief
That's a lot of holes!
Thanks for watching, be safe and take care!
Are there drawings that you can print and stick on to mdf to make the templates? The drawings i found on their website seem to be of the whole cavity rather than the separate templates
Darryl, thanks for watching!
Here is where I found the drawings that I used. I then cleaned them up a bit, but basically if they are printed at 100% scale, you should be able to make them work.
www.evertune.com/resources/for_installers.php
F&T model:
www.evertune.com/resources/instructions_drawings_and_CAD_for_bridge_installation.php
F model routing dimension pdf:
www.evertune.com/resources/instructions_drawings_and_CAD/PDF/EVERTUNE__F6-Routing-Dimensions__2017e01.pdf
T model routing dimension pdf:
www.evertune.com/resources/instructions_drawings_and_CAD/PDF/EVERTUNE__T_Routing_Dimensions__2017e01.pdf
Basically, all other models have similar pdfs, step, and dxf files available.
I'm thinking of putting together a video showing the process I used to make my templates.
Let me know if you think that would be worthwhile.
Good luck with your projects!
an amature? Boy you are far more than that
LOL, thank you Steve!
Thanks for watching too.
Hope you enjoyed the project, it was pretty interesting to see how the Evertune mechanism was put together and how well it does what it claims.
Cool engineering.
Hope all is well, be safe and take care!
I call I humility. Rare these day's.
Why? A properly setup guitar will have no tuning issues, mine stay in tune after months in a case.
nasticannasta, thanks for watching!
A proper setup is a good thing, that is for certain!
I guess another way to look at it might be,
while the other guitars are in the case,
this guitar could be getting played for months and still be in tune.
I find the engineering, thought and development of such things very interesting.
I was amazed how it soaked up string stretch and stayed in tune, and how removing any string didn't change the tuning.
I really figured neck movement would throw tuning off, but it didn't seem to.
I'm sure the action shifted a bit when I removed strings, but remaining strings stayed in tune. Interesting stuff, to me.
This kinda thing isn't for everyone, price alone is a big concern.
Still, I kinda like what it can do.
I also enjoy the process of working on the guitar itself, learning new approaches, one thing leads to another.
A journey down a different path some days, new scenery, all good.
Hope all is well for you.
Be safe and take care!
Even well set up guitars will go out of tune from strings stretching, temperature and humidity changes, over-fretting, and monster string bends. EverTune eliminates all of those issues. I encourage you to try it and see.
Kids, today we are going to install this 350$ Sci-fi thingy in this 50$ piece of scrapwood… to make something surprisingly nice.
Exactly!
For no good reason, is reason enough.
I now have one of the most expensive high-tech $50 guitars on the planet, LOL.
You got me laughin!
Thanks for watching, hope all is well, be safe and take care!
Wow, that's one hell of a complicated method to restrict creativity. I couldn't possibly go through all of that work to then be denied bending notes without 'tricking' it first.
A great video John, but the Evertune is not for me.
LOL, hey Martin, thanks for watching!
I like the way you put that, good stuff.
Once all the "tricking" is accomplished, it's pretty much set up.
You can remove (break) a string, and the rest of the strings won't budge a bit, they stay in tune. Put a new string on, twist the tuner and it goes from flat to being in tune pretty quickly.
I hear ya, it's not for everyone. I do find all the engineering pretty fascinating.
Hope you are doing well, be safe and take care!
That’s rather cool! Kinda wish I hadn’t sold on my Hipshot mechanical multi-tuning Tele bridge thingy, which was some mighty complex engineering. But then I remembered: my woodworking is even poorer than my soldering, and it’d still be sitting in its box after another 15+ years.
I will get around to putting the Bigsby I bought at the same time on an actual guitar tho’. Roll on The Next Project!
I encourage you to try EverTune and then decide if it is right for you. For thousands of top players and producers EverTune enhances creativity. Never tuning up when you grab your guitar, no retuning between takes in the studio, perfect intonation all the way up the neck, playing a gig in direct sunlight and never going out of tune, and being able to slap a capo on with no retuning whatsoever. As for bending, there's no trickery involved. You simply dial the string in to the proper spot much like you would on any guitar and you're good to go.
It looks like a solution in search of a problem…….very nice work, but I don’t see the point to the bridge.
Thanks for watching!
I find the engineering very interesting.
True that it may be a solution to a problem that wasn't, accept for a tuning issue. Some instruments like to detune more-so than others.
Be safe and take care!
I thought I replied to this but now I don't see it. Apologies if I'm repeating myself. Going out of tune has been a problem ever since there were guitars. Temperature and humidity changes, huge bends, squeezing too hard, strings stretching out can all cause a guitar to go our of tune. EverTune solves all of those problems and provides perfect intonation all the way up the neck (by maintaining constant tension on the strings). Give it a try and see if it's right for you.