WHAT Have I Done To My Guitar...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- Yup, I just added a Trem System to my fix-bridged guitar!
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Well, this is definitely unlike any trem I've tried before! Enjoy :)
Thanks for the video
hi
The 9 string community been real quiet since this dropped.
As someone who's not a fan of digital pokery, this was surprisingly good. Great in fact. Thanks for the video!
Finally no springs to adjust.
I fully expected to hate everything about it and find myself tempted to get one myself.. digital is starting to reach parity with analogue in many places now. Very cool.
ben, what exotic woods would you recommend to someone that wants a toilet seat thats both strong and beautiful as it is responsive?
ps ill take my answer in the form of a completely irrelevant haiku, thanks x
@@spork297 poop
@@spork297 the best wood to use,
for the seat of relief is,
wenge, i believe
@@spork297 teak
@@spork297 a wooden toilet seat would be porous enough to hold tons of bacteria, perhaps not wood on one’s bare ass😂
The fact you can have an evertune-whammy is mindblowing. We live in the future!!
That's what she said. But unfortunately the guitar isn't popular in the future.
@@Lloyd_Christmas11 truth. But it's my future.
It is like the 80’s again and the Steinberger transtrem
@@Lloyd_Christmas11 I beg to differ I'm 17 and I know alot of people around my age and younger who play guitar or have started
@@Lloyd_Christmas11
Who told you that, I bet it's just your personal nonsensical assumption, guitar will always be popular
This is genuinely one of the coolest guitar accessories I've ever seen. I won't even call this a gadget as it 's a legitimate tool to give absolute versatility to the player. I went through a trem guitar phase and honestly still love them, but checked out after years of labor intensive setups so this is basically a no frills solution to how I would love my guitars to be.
This is actually wild.
Imagine. This is only the beginning.
This is very cool
This avoids the awkwardness when the duct tape breaks, and your Digitech Whammy falls off your guitar mid solo.
I use Gorilla tape. Works well, not too friendly to vintage finishes though....
Happened to my buddy Eric once
Try virtual gorilla
Duct tape🤔? We used theater gum...
Would NEVA EVA Put this on ANY Guitar ..it has NO Style !!! Digital Crap for a bit "Fun" on your guitar ..Disgusting ..Completeley Idiotic !
I generally prefer a fixed bridge so this is pretty cool since I love the sound of divebombs and experimental noises people get out of tremolos like Eddie’s trick where he made his guitar sound like a elephant.
Very cool Daryll, but where do you connect the guitar jack?
@@nabilcharbel4136 I was wondering that as well. I assume it’s probably routed through the foot switch and from there into the amp.
I googled it and the guitar jack goes straight to the box then it's routed back after the effects to the amp.
@@nabilcharbel4136 Eh?
@@Ndlanding yup
What amazes me about this product is when using the different features it still retains the voice of the guitar as it would naturally sound at that pitch. I was expecting to hear an artificial ring or digital artifacts but if they are there the human ear can't pick it up. This should win some kind of award. Great channel as usual, Darrell. Cheers.
That'll be format analysis - shift the pitch but keep the formants the same - that actually comes from mobile phone GSM tech :)
They finally built it! I've been jonesing for someone to invent this for, like, 10 years. The moment the Variax existed, I wondered why it didn't have a virtual whammy. Now, it's here, and I don't even need to install a hex-pickup or piezo saddles. Amazing.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. If this could do alternate tunings on the fly like the Variax and/or act as an Acoustic piezo it would be a serious game changer
My favorite part is non-destructive installation. Seems like a really cool product that goes beyond gimmick into practicality, especially for someone who might be recording multiple tracks
"But we're gonna do it anyway" Love it! The blue tooth should have been implemented into the Tremelo system. I don't like the idea of a wire hanging out on the front of my guitar. Seems like the Blue tooth was an after thought.
Yeah that’s probably the biggest drawback to me. I’d be ok with the mount always being there but wires and stuff hanging out is a deal breaker.
Yeah, that's so ya don't have ta use da Bluetooth!
Vibrato.
@@jeffro. there's still a wire coming out either way. You missed the point.
If the Bluetooth transmitter was in the part you stick to your guitar and that piece was a little longer and flatter I could see that as much better. Maybe make it blend in with the body a bit by smoothing out the sides and back of it too. More ergonomic in any way.
IMHO one of the coolest gadgets that I ever seen for a guitar. Thanks a lot.
Although the price is not too much popular, if I was a professional player I would buy right away!
Very cool idea. A whammy on a Les Paul… hmmm. Buuuuut I’ll wait for the next version when they integrate the BT into the unit and reduce the size. I assume it has batteries so are they rechargeable? USB? There’s definitely some ways to make it more aesthetically pleasing. Instead of a bulky plastic holster taped to the guitar, how about a metal plate that matches your hardware with mounting pegs and magnets to hold the whammy unit in place? Then when the unit is off the guitar the plate would blend in with the rest of the hardware. Also offer the whammy unit in different finishes to match the guitar hardware. So much potential, but while this version is cool, it feels like it was rushed to market. Just my humble opinion.
I agree. It's cool but super bulky and unsightly.
A BT circuit is the size of an SD RAM card...
100% Agree. I've been thinking about this type of pedal/whammy for years. Total miss on aesthetics. Also, why just whammy? I want to be able to control all types of modulation effects with the trem-bar. Like an expression pedal. Blending in a bit of rotary fx, phaser or whatever.
Lol how many products have you put on to the market? To say they didn’t think of every single little detail when they weren’t even sure the unit was going to be popular to begin with is moronic. Definitely a boomer comment.
BT widaut 2 match latency?
If they would integrate the transmitter to the main unit, decrease the price a bit, and improve the appearance, I would buy it for my bass.
V-Capo is interesting, but there were plenty of room on the pedal, they should add a standard tuner display on the left and transposed pitch on the right, so we can play the root note and try the target key by pressing the button repeatedly and read the transposed pitch, no need to count the semitones anymore, and who doesn't like an always-on tuner?
This literally fills my creative joy. I want one because I have hard tails and it saves money on actually buying a Floyd or a bigsby and even an octave pedal.
Love your channel dude, I have found so much stuff on here I would never have seen before.
You want a great tremolo that's a non locking. Go with a Babicz the saddles alone are worth the cost . It is absolutely the easiest to set up and intonate. And it's very stable , looks great and feels wonderful. No more chewed up right hand.
Right. I have it on my 1996 Ironbird and it feels and plays great! Probably the best trem I've ever installed on my guitar. Beautiful.
I want one! Lol
I put one on a strat and it works great and feels great. I ended up taking it off though. The way the strings sit in the saddle makes palm mutes weird and difficult. You can’t rest your palm behind the break of the strings because the strings are too low in the saddle. If you have a babicz you know what I mean. The saddle rises above the string so slight palm mutes are almost impossible. The unit itself works great and is machined beautifully but I’m too old to change the way I play for a trem unit. I found that a odd choice in design.
Gotoh 510
Seems to be no measurable latency with this unit, That’s awesome!! I had
this system idea stuck in my head for years after seeing the first Steinberger Trans Trem demo but
I’m no electronics guru and didn’t have the resources to carry on with this idea and I’m excited to see someone finally did it! Thanks for the video Darrell because I’ve never heard of this unit before. Always wanted to be able to put a Trans Trem on a Strat without butchering the body, now this unit solves that issue!
Cool intro dood! Keep up with the vids. I always keep coming back because of the quality content!!
Really cool product! Love that they added additional features like the virtual capo!
One potential minus is that effect where strings detune at different rates because of their different thicknesses/tension probably can't be captured by such a clean pedal. Like the low octave was a perfectly in tune one. My trem goes just a hair under an octave but obviously the tone kinda sucks because of the floppy strings. But a cool dissonance trick is hitting a unison harmonic on different strings for example 5th fret on D and 7th on G and bending down. They don't detune at the same rate and start to clash and sounds really cool when used appropriately. Not dissing on the product tho it seems fantastic
Steinberger (the headless bass people) had a guitar with a trem system that was supposed to do exactly this, called the TransTrem. You could use it regular whammy style, or you could notch it down or up in half-steps and it was supposed to be just like re-tuning or a capo. So maybe look at this system from that perspective? f course, nothing will completely replicate taking the tension off the physical strings.
@@a2ndopynyn Haha, might first thought as I watch...you maybe will have TransTrem sound with this item...on any guitar! 🤯
If you bend one string up with the fretting hand while using the bridge system to bend down, you should be able to still achieve this effect.
Upside, you dont have to invest in a transtrem. Altough I would prefer one.
Interesting in both concept and implementation...Sounds nice and it's all controllable too. I especially like the portability between multiple guitars and the fact that it doesn't require any physical modification. Ya gotta' love it, right? Maybe the biggest negative of the Virtual Jeff is it's price...though it's portability makes it practical if used on multiple guitars imho...which even an old fart, like me, thinks is just TOO cool. Thank you for the thorough demo.
Love the virtual capo and octave effects. Very cool system.
Ive been waiting for this to come back!!!!! I had to settle for the hot hand, which is also rad
Thanks D, and shout out to Virtual Jeff for pushing guitar innovation. Looking forward to 2nd n 3rd generation products. Very cool!
It's a DigiTech Whammy with the pedal converted into a tremolo bar. Neat.
I wonder if anyone has tried this on a bass for shiggles.
You can see VJ PRO on bass on out channel!
Love your videos as always Darrell, an amazing device which I guess could work on any stringed instrument! Really missing the old intro clip, please bring it back!
Another great review man this thing is awesome
This is amazing! Just make it available in a stainless steel finish and it's a sure winner.
I didn’t think I would like it ...but it’s actually pretty freakin cool...and your guitar stays in tune...that’s a big win!!!
I'm on a waiting list for mine, did you get yours direct larry?
Wow! Crazy piece of tech!
This is an amazing review! Great job, and a very cool product!
I don’t have a 10-string, I can’t djent!
Darrell: “I’m gonna start this man’s career.”
i’d really love to see the controller in various shapes, like a keyboard pitch bender for example, with seemingly equally subtle movements.and it would be great if such could be placed not just behind the bridge, but also beside. also the actual effects unit to handle more like delays for instance.
This looks amazing and super fun. Holy moly.
It's actually pretty amazing how good and convincing it sounds. Also the virtual capo is really convenient by itself.
Need ya to try this on an acoustic Darrell. Rock on!
Thats a pretty cool idea!
Mr. Braun, thank you so much for reviewing this product!
Thanks for the review Darrell! 🙌
I just saw a video for this product a few days ago and thought "It's kind of like the pitch wheel on my Korg synth. I can put this on one of my Les Paul guitars and not have to spend a ton of money on an LP with a tremolo." Then I saw the price and decided I'll just stick with my strats for trem action.
@LCL don't worry, cheap knockoff of this thing will be available everywhere including the DIY ones (as the pitch bends etc digitally are fairly trivial on the sw side of things) so expect something like $100 tops for a good quality result in at most a year :D
Wow, just what I have been waiting for! My previous experience with converting my ES335 was with the Duesenberg Les Trem (in gold) which worked great and looked elegant.
I just bought the les trem before seeing this
That is absolutely phenomenal! What an incredible idea.
That sounded awesome!
This is one of the coolest and most useful products you've demoed in awhile. My only concern is what the adhesive will do to a finish when you remove it or if you leave it on for a long time and then remove it. Other than that, I see no negatives to this device. God bless and rock on 👍😎🎸
My exact thought. I've toyed with the idea of a Bigsby for one of my Pauls. This would be far more versatile but I'm not going to screw up the finish by leaving that adhesive on it for a long time.
Hey man… better than filling screw or bolt holes!
My suspicion is that if your guitar has a very thin nitro finish or old then it's definitely something to worry about. Poly lacquers are usually really thick and are what most manufacturers use so it shouldn't be a worry.
@@AlcaHolicGamer My Pauls have nitro lacquer, as do most of them, at least the ones made in the 20th Century.
THAT is COOL!!! Thnx man for the tutorial on it! You're putting me in the poorhouse! LOL
This is fascinating, love it!
Wow , what an interesting trem , thanks for posting and sharing what it can do
Didn’t hear a price mentioned so before I looked it up I thought what I would pay for it? $150 was my max. Maybe $250 if I really needed/wanted it. But $500!!?! 😂
No way. Especially for adding a point of failure with the Bluetooth.
But yes, it sounds very smooth and the various effects are cool. The looks could be better.
Sadly, I agree. $200? Hell yes. $300? Grr I’d hold out and maybe get a used one in three years.
But $500? No. And never. It’s probably worth every dime, but I don’t have that many dimes to hand-control a $200 digiitech whammy.
Sounds a lot, but how much would it cost to buy a good trem system and have it fitted professionally?
Also with multiple brackets this could be used on many guitars without the tuning issues associated with a conventional trem system!
Many players pay that much for a “must have” effects pedal!
@@ces69 the whole idea of doing things digitally is that you avoid mechanical drawbacks, cost being one of the big ones. This does not actually sound like a tremolo system.
Darell has to be more forthcoming by telling the cost of some of the items with his reviews.
Yeah, I agree. It just makes more sense to put that $500 towards an actual guitar with a trem. Nowadays there are a plethora of amazing budget guitars that make this unit a tough sell.
Will install on my martin d 18
Excellent product demo.
Super cool product!
Pretty wild, it's just a matter of time for it to evolve into something smaller and better looking. Like with the Bluetooth integrated and a smaller unit that would be available in normal colours that would match common tail pieces (Chrome, nickel, gold and black).
This thing is super cool and would solve a lotta my headaches with my strat, especially as a player who spends a fair amount of time in Eb standard but doesn't want my trem to be blocked off all the time. Though I'm not sure about its looks, and there's nothing quite like the sound of loose strings slapping the frets in a big divebomb.
That’s frickin’ AMAZING! What a killer idea!
Absolutely incredible
I am getting one!
It looks like a pile of fun.
$500, yikes you can get a decent Floyd rose ibanez for that price. Love the idea but too expensive for me.
Brilliant idea but needs to be half the price before I’d start to consider it.
can you imagine if the Beatles and some of those other bands from Europe had this back in the day? wow
The most amazing gizmo I have ever seen or heard - breathtaking !
Love the new intro Darrel 🤘🏽
Darrell didn't talk about the major disadvantage
For its price, you can buy an Ibanez RG370AHMZ
...and just how are you gonna stick one of those to a tele bridge? 🥴🤣
@@gearViewmirror 😁😁
And have all the tuning issues you could ever want! Lmao
And i love Ibanez btw, just stating fact lmao
I was sold when I saw that I could have a trem on my solid bridge guitar and not having to tune all the time. Everything else was just bonus. This is one of those, if you only buy one accessory for your guitar items, but this type of thing. Being able to tune up and down without having to adjust intonation or buy new strings is worth it just for that feature. Yikes. I saw that price though.
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Brilliant idea!
What wizardry is this?!? Freaking awesome gadget! I know what I’m asking Santa for this year ☺️
This is an amazing product. I couldn't really tell if it changed the actual tone of the guitar when in use. For the aesthetically picky players, maybe have a machined aluminum rail that attaches to the bridge somehow and engages with the unit rather than that big baseplate. That could be the Mk.2 ;)
Pretty cool but I think it has a ways to go, especially at current price. For one I'd like to see the Bluetooth integrated into the base, keep it clean with no extra cables coming from guitar. I think the bar could also use a redesign, to me it just looks a little cheap and very non-traditional; the ability to swap out bars would be great as would a tension adjustment. I'd come up with a new name while I was at it.
This trim system is elaborate & cool, I am wondering why I didn't think of the concept myself. You did a great job in demonstrating use of this system & using the breadth of it's capabilities. I know I want one now.
Yeah cool video and crazy gear !!
BEST piece of tech I've seen in a
l o n g time!
"there's no way this is any goo-" *starts playing with it* "give me your entire stock!!" I would love to see this being used with other instruments just for fun and giggles!
And at 9:50 that first bit sounds straight out of a Shin Megami Tensei game! It's so nice
Dive bomb on a banjo 🤣
Cool piece of kit here
very awesome my friend and by watching your vids it got me inspired again to play again finally,
when my car was split in two by a tree on black ice in Chicago 12/16/2016..thank you Darrell and have a nice day...
Darrell, can this be attached to an acoustic-electric guitar? I’d love to see what would happen if you try that!
It porbably would be possible since it doesn't require any physical modifications to the guitar other than sticking a plastic bracket on it and it doesn't cause any structural changes to the guitar itself and string tension.
👍You bet!
On their website, they have a great video of someone using it on an a-e guitar.
You can put this on any Instrument. Anything that has a pickup, or even a totally acoustic instrument can be miked and run through this. In theory you could put one one a Steinway LOL.
Whammy ukulele?!!!
Can it do the Beck/Vai warble when you flick the bar?
Also I assume it bends chords in tune like a Steinberger trans-trem.
That's really cool!
Ingenious to say the least, with no modifying luv it.
I have a really cheap but awesome Harley Benton Tele type this would go great with.
I’m a little disappointed that you didn’t show us any pinch harmonic squeals with it though.
Ditto!!
Virtual Jeff might cost more than the guitar itself. $499. However that doesn’t mean this isn’t just cool and probably worth it.
@@johnjones8084 it’d be a fun little device. I just don’t know about anything stick-on, though. That’s why I’d really only use it on a budget guitar. I’m sure that adhesive would discolor the finish over time.
The reason for that is those squeals only work when the strings are loose.
And some country baritone tricks would have been nice as well...
A nylon string guitar with a whammy! Or....Bass! .... Mandolin?
One thing you didn't mention though: At bedroom volumes you'd hear the pitch of the string clashing with what was coming through the amp right?
Yes. Having dealt with this on the variax and with the digitech drop, it’s usually only a problem with the upper 3 strings…FWIW
Edited because autocorrect doesn’t like digitech
12:05 thought we were about to hear some killswitch engage 😂🤟🏼 awesome video on a sweet piece of gear!
This is a great idea, especially for those who are fans of the Steinberger TransTrem guitars. This pretty much gives you that sort of functionality. I could see myself installing one of these on my Gibson.
That is awesome. And the fact that it gives you other effects as well (octave, chorus, etc) makes it even cooler. The tech these days blows my mind. I do wish it was at least half the price tho...fancy whammy or new guitar? I'd have to go with a new guitar lol
My thoughts exactly. This thing costs as much as a budget guitar does.
They call this version the "pro." Could they have a regular version with less features for half the price? Feel like less, at $200, could be much more tempting for mass appeal. Discount codes DB? Haha.
But you're not just buying one whammy. It's instantly removable and transferrable between any number of instruments. If you sell the current guitar, you just remove the bracket with no trace left and put it on your new guitar. It's an investment that can stay with you forever, not with the instrument. And not just guitars, anything that either has a pickup built in, or you can even run a miked instrument's signal through it. How about a whammy on a trumpet, or a 300-year-old harpsichord? 🤣
@@awo1fman Touche! 😁 Fair points for sure. Its flexibility is phenomenal!
I was hoping you'd review this. I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more press.
Probably because it's $499!
@@jackp8583 Given the cost of some trem systems and the versatility of this system its really not that cost prohibitive. Especially given that you're not changing your original guitar by routing and the like. Add in the cost of having a luthier mod you guitar for a new trem system, this is almost a bargain.
@@jackp8583 Floyd rose originals are $400 and don’t have the functions that this pedal had, so I think it’s a fair price.
This has been around for years
@@misguidedyouth2006 The Pro model in this video was released January 2020.
pretty sick. great vid (+ enthusiasm)
Cool stuff !!!
It sounds awesome. Now if they could make a version that you can setup to be a B-bender. I was hoping that was an option when I saw how controllable it was.
I dont think it would be possible since the unit just changes the whole signal up and down. Theoretically you could try to filter just the frequencies of the B string but the nature of guitar makes this really hard. For example playing the 5 or 6 fret of the next lower string. It would pick this up. And if it were to try to capture the whole b string then you would get all the way up to 17th fret of the high e since those are the same notes. Not saying the idea of a frequency filter in this device is a bad idea.
You can do that on hex pickup based systems like a boss gp10 since they process each string individually. I use it all the time.
How does the hold feature cope with chords, as opposed to individual notes?
Yeah I was wondering the same thing. Older Digitech whammy pedals didn't handle chords well and it wasn't until the more recent ones when they added a 'chord' mode. 🤔
He covers that toward the end of the video.
Wasn't expecting this... Very cool concept.
Awesome whammy thanks for the run down
That's the coolest thing I have seen in a while!
Doh. I was aiming for a Stetsbar. Now I may have to spend an additional $200 for what I want.
THAT's really NEAT!
Cool Vid Darrell, would be a fun studio tool, or good for specific applications live. Keep on Rockin'!!
Guess I can put a whammy bar on my acoustic now!
Most practical application.
So you're saying I can now record an acoustic version of Wicked Game on my Martin, nice! Space, the final frontier. This is like when you're drafting second in your fantasy football league and the guy who's drafting number one doesn't actually take Christian McCaffrey. Now I have to change my entire thought process. I only own one Electric guitar that does not have a tremolo Bridge. The only reason that I own that guitar is because it's a Washburn with a buzz feiten tuning system. The only reason I haven't bought a Harley Benton hb35 is because it doesn't have a tremolo. So like I said I have to change my thinking. This is like having your cake and eating it too, or a girlfriend that baits her own hook. Mind-blowing. Or girlfriend that bakes the cake and baits my hook as well as her own. WHAT IS HAPPENING!!!🤯
@@superpete1961 what IS happening, Superpete?
You feeling ok?
@@happyinhalecompany yes I am in fact quite well maybe at the time of my last post not so much. Just recently I've learned that the girl of my dreams loves me, which is right up there with this wicked cool whammy bar!
@@superpete1961 hahaha, right on my man, hope everything works out, including this whammy on my ibanez bass VI
I love that they've named it after Jeff Beck, the undisputed master of the whammy bar
Most of Beck’s unique tone comes from his fingers and the volume controls. He does use the whammy bar but if you look closely at Beck’s technique whilst he plays, it’s all in the fingers and volume controls - doesn’t use pedals
@@PetraKann he does use pedals!! But yes, he can get tons of sounds with just the volume and his fingers
Way to burst my bubble
@@GuitarJeff he’s wrong an entire method of melodic vibrato use was developed because of Jeff
I think it's named after Jeff Goldblum because it's pretty fly.
Wow! This is an incredible invention
This is a really well thought out product. As a worship guitarist I immediately see the benefits, and as a metal player I dig the option to instantly play baritone. Nice demo, thanks for sharing!
At first I thought “probably another useless gimmick” but I honestly thought it sounded great. Lots of cool tones.
They should improve the design of it to blend in more with the guitar
That's the best pitch shifting device I've heard!
I need to make block in all of my trem guitars and get one of these. I love the idea of this.
Wow.. I think I love this idea. Usually play with a floating trem, minus my Les Paul, but always hated tuning stability and have been thinking about going straight fixed bridges the older I get… But this..I think it maybe what I am looking for my home studio.