NAMM 2012 - Evertune - Phil Gates

[spicecrop]

I want to see it plugged into a pro tuner like peterson or turbo tuner. why would they not demonstrate this with a tuner?

[tonibajista3422337]

yeii i'm gaaaaaaaaay

[rallyivan1234]

The brother of Bill Gates

[MrGibsonka2]

shut up and take my money..

[rumsfield78]

you can learn all you want how to tune by ear, but if your intonation is off it won't make a damn bit of difference

[NinjaR1994]

it hurt me when he pulled on the strings like that >_<

[masteromega1]

make one for a floyd style bridge...then id be impressed...

[davedbrave17]

ohh... thought it was phill X

[davedbrave17]

ohh... thought it was phill X

[nutz4media]

I think the biggest problem is that you can't do subtle (1/4 and 1/2 step) bends. Look at how hard he had to bend the string to get a 1/2 to one step bend.

[mfrieauff]

bullshit. Leo constructed the Fender Vibrato to be floating. And kid, did these old Strats sustain or what?

[xHav0kSanitYx]

thats acually such a nice guitar

[88naka]

This is an idiotic concept who nearly destroys the guitar tone.

[nutz4media]

@88naka 'idiotic concept'? Then don't buy it. I wouldn't call it idiotic.. It's brilliant idea (albeit pricey for the average person). How exactly does it kill the tone?

[88naka]

@nutz4media Totally destroys the resonance with the wood of the guitar. Even worst than a Floyd Rose.

[edhombre]

wow, this guy is as good as the sham wow dude.

[SaurianSoul]

Hmm.. SO I could spend 330 for a bridge that keeps my guitar in tune.. or about 90 for the best locking tuners on the market... Of course who wouldn't pick the bridge

[VickVoltsRocks]

Wow.... WOW

[FitzysGuitar]

holy smokes 330 for this thing, wow who pays that much for a bridge, i mean most musicians can hardly keep the bills down now

.

[wakeboarder860]

@FitzysGuitar And that's just buying the bridge. Unless you now how to rout wood very well and have the tools to do it you can expect another 200-300 dollars for installation. A strat is the easiest instal because it already has a back cavity for springs. However if you saw the amount of wood they had to remove to put this in a les or a tele you would never let them do it. they cut like 1/4 of the wood out of it.

[JBaileyism]

I thought this was something like the auto-tune peavey that was at the show when i clicked on the video but wow...this is pretty cool!

[wakeboarder860]

it's not $330 dollars cool. I could buy a second used strat and swap guitars if I go out of tune for that much. Or even better just develop my ear and learn how to tune quickly for free.

[wilifili1]

LOVE IT!

[chemicalwarfareusic]

how do u downntune it

[giggs102]

@chemicalwarfareusic YOU DONT. haha just kidding i have no idea..

[Moogotoo]

that is one cool new addition to the guitar world

[sickb2200]

That's freeking amazing. Best guitar invention in years.

[TheJaakk]

Floating systems kills your sustain.

[nutz4media]

@TheJaakk Uh, no it doesn't.

[godlikecharacta]

@TheJaakk not really, if you get a big block for your floyd your tone will be better than a string through.

[RockYoWorld]

@TheJaakk Yeah, and they make it a pain in the butt to change tunings or string gauges... I have an ESP LTD with a FR floating tremolo... I love the guitar itself, but I'm never going to have more than one floating tremolo guitar at a time... unless I have a guitar tech...

[laiosto]

@TheJaakk No it doesn't.Get a Floydupgrades big block.I've got both fixed bridge and Tremelo guitars and I can't tell the difference sustain wise.It just takes a little longer to properly set up a floating bridge,then you are rocking.

[njskate4death]

omg. If they somehow figured something out like this in a floyed rose style that. would. be. so. so. fucking. useful.

[L33tP1ckL]

The Master of Tone and Phrasing, the man himself, Phil Gates. Just got to love this guy. Great job on the review Phil! Thanx!

[kernman2]

just hate the thought of loosing string bending, or the next crowd of players not knowing how to alternate tune because a switch or dial does it for them.

think it will come to this?

[yourmomsfavoriteguy1]

@kernman2 some will some will stick to the old way, but what you need to think about robot tuning and evertuning is that it'll make your life so much easier when on a live show.

[cupco68]

AHHHHHHHHH I want one or 2 or for all my guitars :)

[RavenMacKay]

Ok, ok, ok. That's pretty cool. But! does it only work with standard tuning? What if you want to play in an open tuning or drop down? That would be more interesting to me.

[Ibik]

I wonder that if you bend one string and then another string would it be a correct bend.

[DistortedV12]

What about the subtleties of being out of tune? How do you change to other tunings?

What about the whammy bar?

I can't? There are pedals, but...I just don't know.

[TheCollisionofworlds]

@DistortedV12 there is nothing good about being out of tune. and changing to other tunings is as easy as using an allen key on the individual strings. it's not a hard concept. also i fucking hate tremolos so i don't care whether its got one or not

[Deluxeta]

If you wanna use your tremolo bar or drop tune it, you're fucked.

But nice product anyway.

[Falling2Grey29]

How about drop-tuning/changing strings?

[sugarcock1]

now all they have to do is make one that comes in a functioning tremolo version

[MrSatanochio]

Interesting stuff.

[yosoyabraham]

OMG I want it NOW !!!!!

[Jackson666fan]

That is freaking cool

[GuitaristAidan]

This is awesome :) it's pretty big and ugly though, any chance of getting it into a more elegant size and shape?

[keithalan10]

badass

[cooltuque]

Just cut out the headstock. It's now useless

[nerdheadbanger]

@cooltuque HAHA!!! 

[Manaslash]

magic



[u2be4mike]

o_O

[Alpha6059]

Very cool!

[havaden96]

Gibson robot just got blown away...

[88naka]

@havaden96 not really. both are stupid concepts who sacrifice a lot of the instrument in exchange of 5-6 seconds of tunning before the song..

[ThePreciousguitar87]

amazing, this could be a major break thru for hardtail bridge users!



[azhar414]

what sorcery is this!!! 

[TheHeartTheUsed]

what if you want to go to a different tuning? like D standard?

[Quikfingers]

@TheHeartTheUsed Then don't use this

[cast390]

That dude used to work for roland

[hofner176]

He said you name it, well do u have one for a Rickenbacker 620?

[valdivia562]

wow, this is great. why didnt i see this when i went

[harro333]

Impressive, most impressive. /Vader voice off.

[jacktheguitarman]

what about stringing it? that must be a pain to crank the tuners up....

[Jeepjones85]

That is cool but what about when you bend up to hit that higher note? I'm guessing it won't ?

[Cyprusg21]

That's pretty frickin amazing.

[mychem1914777]

Auto tune FTW

[XAlphaZEROX]

I need this... at my school, when I'm playing, there's always someone who runs up and turns a key ._.''

[SamHandwiches]

My band plays in e flat...

[Reinoutify]

I am impressed

[kevenbelangerharbour]

Really interresting product... jsut need a trem bar and I'm ready to rock :p

[StainIessChina]

Too bad it sounds like shit compared to a traditional Strat bridge.

[rigorhead01]

@StainIessChina ...and you know this how?

[StainIessChina]

@rigorhead01 Because I just heard him demo it on a Strat on the video dumbass, and it sounded way too nasally just like a Floyd Rose, the traditional bridges are the way to go unless you just want a stunt guitar.

[rigorhead01]

@StainIessChina So you can tell all that from watching a super compressed YouTube video? How about instead of name calling, you go practice your guitar and try to improve your ear, and quit trolling the internet bashing other people's products. Dumbass.

[StainIessChina]

@rigorhead01 It sounds like you're the one who needs to train your ear, otherwise you'd know that compression doesn't make things sound nasally, I use a compressor all the time it just kind of puts the squeeze on your tone, I'm not bashing it I clearly said it's good for a stunt guitar but it's not something to be used in the studio, furthermore I wouldn't be calling other people trolls when your the one who's rude, vulgar, and unintelligent.

[Blizzard56k]

cool bridge, lets see something in drop d. (45 mins later)....

[poplepo3]

@Blizzard56k i imagine its just sorta an improvement to floyd rose designs minus the trem feature, and it wouldnt take long the spring can only componsate so much so 4-5 turns it would let you drop it to d :P i wouldnt let that turn you away from this , i must say if i owned a non floyd guitar id love to get one of these , because i have problems which my previous non floyds going out of tune while being carryed in say the trunk of a car

[DarthBond11]

but will it blend?

[crate718]

That is awsome, I wonder if future tremolo's are going to have the concept

[poplepo3]

@crate718 i do not beleve so , reason being that, the springs in this bridge work by compensation , the issue is that as the trem bar goes down , at certain key points the springs going to try and hold the tuning its at , thus it would make doing trems hard , at least to do it properly. however ibanez is working on a floyd rose , that has a pivit point it always returns to , this will allow very accurate tuning , and slow the loss of tune, its not perfect but should lasts months without tuning

[tMattLZ]

Amazing invention. but will it work as a trem bridge?

[headwhop26]

this is the most interesting thing ive seen from namm this year

[TheHeartTheUsed]

never go out of tune?

Challenge Accepted.

[Budyguy222222]

Impressive device. Especially since you can bend and the thing doesn't mess it up.

Not much impresses me (if Muddy didn't need it, I don't) but this bridge - very cool.

[imonyourfacewoot]

He sounds like Dave Grohl when he talks. Search your hearts, for you know it to be true.

[illmatic702]

pretty awesome.

[pahblol]

Wooh really want this for my SG. Unless it's a pain to tune it into drop D

[guitarplaya1035]

Want

[LOUDRamxesPIE]

How can the bridge differentiate between tension increasing from an intentional bend or the tuning peg? Can you change to Drop Tuning without re-setting the bridge?

[Socioistic]

Finally, a genuinely useful product. As long as it's easy to install, and they make a bass version, I don't care what it costs, I'm in.

[13scott71]

RIGHT?



[kuni50000]

Genuinely cool. Do you think you can use these bridges with a strat-style tremolo bar though? If you do a divebomb won't it just correct the pitch? haha.

[TheCollisionofworlds]

@kuni50000 they don't have a trem on them

[Piziface]

Bit of a hassle to drop tune though isn't it?

[thecrippledflag]

Drummers suck but thats a pretty cool bridge

[mouloudo]

doesn't it kill the sutain a bit? and I guess you cant mount a tremolo bar on it

[Satansbitch101]

it seems like a cool product. it would've been great if i could have heard the guitar, and not a damn snare drum. But i don't blame the drummer, it 's guitar world that has never heard about micing an amp.

[FCValle]

there is always an annoying drummer around.

[ForgetTheForgiven]

@FCValle You're mad you can't play drums man.

[FCValle]

@ForgetTheForgiven I play drums very well, it's just that they can't fucking stop playing even in rehersals when you are trying to say something.

[PuR1fy]

How would it work for an SG?

[ledstar101]

fuck YWEH@!

[secretagentYTer]

that is amazingly awesome

[eliten0Ob]

This is so hilariously cool.

[Vordrab]

Great!

[Aticze]

Good, good, but would it work with drop A# tuning, or does it always keep it in E?

[FCValle]

@Aticze I belive it can take the A#, but i would recommend 0.12 strings.

[Aticze]

@FCValle I already use 15-52 gauge strings and that is pretty reliable for that tuning.

[alexandreguitar]

Perfect