Messing around on the Maverick with the sustainer Pickup

[zeronoton]

nice tune man!!!!! check out if you want my video, i m playing with a maverick explorer, and tell me your opinion!! stay heavy cheers!!

[Zeeb7v]

Man I remember playing a Maverick guitar about 10 years ago when doing a work placement at a music shop and I totally fell in love with them. Very nice man.

[sunnyjim98]

how much did yu pay for that guitar, cos i found a silver one with duncans for 250 pounds?

[dinkthestink123]

theres no knob for the sustainer right? just 2 switches? i wanna put a sustainer in a Dean ML but dont want 4 knobs haha

[dinkthestink123]

beautiful

[savagecabage]

hey i like the black maverick!the sound is great. i have a grey one myself, its a shame they dont make these anymore, but good for us because we have rare guitars now,well rare enough.

just wondering how much money/effort was that to put in do you know?does the sustain still work on the low strings?i wouldnt mind getting one for mine. but i have a kill switch installed in mine already so im not to sure if im brave enough to drill more holes in it lol.

great vid anyway

[PestVic]

can you put a link to the product in the description

[lotusfeet]

Done =)

[PestVic]

awesome so it was the fernandes sustainer :)

how hard is it to install? and the big question is. if the battery dies. does the whole guitar die? or can you have a bypass mode so to speak so the guitar works no matter what? thanks again

[igotmywhiskey]

from listenin to this all i can say is it has a big hint of jeff beck style guitar playing, im guessin you'r a fan of jeff beck?

[boosborne]

what kind of pickups?

[lotusfeet]

The sustainer is linked to a DiMarzio Evo in the bridge position - can't remember what I had installed in the middle position now....it was a few years ago!

[wildkofta]

how long do the batteries last?

[lotusfeet]

I could usually get 2-3 days out of it before the battery started wearing out, and that was with a lot of playing.

[wildkofta]

Is it just the sustainer system that ceases to work after the batteries die, or do the pickups stop working as well? Is that the FSK-401 or the 101? Thanks man!

Sounds awesome when u switch to the harmonic effect around the 30 sec mark

[lotusfeet]

It's been a couple of years since I used it, but if I remember right when you're in sustainer mode and the battery dies - you get no sound from any pickups, however switch out of sustainer mode and you have your normal pickups. I got the 101 and had a guitar tech sort the wiring for me! Yeah I always loved the way it would smoothly switch into the harmonic mode =D

[wildkofta]

Thanks!

[ThexMetalxWithin]

when you switch off the sustainer it doesnt use the battery right?

[MayorPayne666]

It's fuckin' good man..

the sound is great!

[lotusfeet]

Thanks dude =)

[dbbuxton96]

dude those r some weird but wicked knobs on you guitar, the way theyre all sideways, assuming thats wat those things are,

[lovepuremetal5]

how long does the battery last?

[mikostratocaster]

beautiful dramatic sound

[ixiplushi]

metalic silver maverick lp style Vintage :) 2000pounds :) Thats me :)

[judomouse]

Im selling one on ebay just now,no shit. Awesome guitars.

[digbycurrents]

If it's awesome, why are you selling it? Doesn't add up.

[judomouse]

Got a massive collection dude & have my eyes on a bigger fish. Bigger picture yeah?

[AlfonzoVedova]

I want one of those pickups.

[vannifreak]

if u did say like a dime squeal would tht sustain forever as well?

[texasranga]

yep. its made for sustaining harmonics.

[plummustangs]

you mean a pinch harmonic haha?

[xloserx4xchristx]

no, he means it's made to hold harmonics for a long time

[Radicz0r]

I have a yellow Meverick f3 :] they dont sell those anymore

[Rocket1771]

sounds like a violin, or the strings setting on the keyboard at my drummers housw

[nicks5150]

hey,can you mix a fernandez sustainer and any passive pickup like say a dimarzio paf pro?

[keepitauthenticppl]

now i really want a guitar with a sustainer!!! can anyone tell me what guitars have them built in?

[lotusfeet]

There are Fernandez guitars that have them built in (look up the fernandez website, I can't remember it offhand.....) - but the other alternative is to buy a sustainer kit from their website and have your local guitar tech fit it for you (or do it yourself.....if you are super confident with the tech side of things...)

[dabears747]

the jackson dk2s has a built in sustainiac pickup, with 3 modes - normal, mix, and harmonic. i dont want to spam, but i have some examples of it in my vids.

[scaryfried]

There's a Silver Ibanez Prestige that has one.

[judomouse]

:¬D

WICKED!!!!

[abc123CG]

the sustainer makes it so much more soulfull

[abc123CG]

do u think it would work with the sustainer driver in the middle position of my ibanez rg350ex instead of in the neck position?

[lotusfeet]

I would THINK so, but it would definitely be worth consulting a technician about it first.

[brodudesnsupras]

No, that will not work. It MUST be in the neck position.

[lotusfeet]

If I remember rightly (and it has been a long time...): it is in the neck position, however when it is turned on it acts as a driver (the actual pickup is the bridge, the sustainer itself acts as the driver creating continuous magnetic pulses). When it is not turned on, it functions as a normal neck Hum.pup. So yeah, my point was that when it is switched on you cannot use the neck pup (i.e. the sustainers 2nd function) - it MUST use the bridge pup to function.

[dabears747]

lotusfeet is right: driver is in the neck pup, when activated, bridge pup is selected. to me, it doesnt seem like the position of the driver should matter. electromagnetic waves at resonant frequency = sustain, regardless of where it is applied, so why should position matter?

[brodudesnsupras]

Because the harmonic mode will not work. It has to be right below the neck to produce 5th harmonics. It will work anywhere else just for normal sustain, but it won't work very well.

[quadsimo]

nice lick man, most of these guys playing a sustanic sound like balls but that was good nice wrk

[gigi1177]

when you use the sustainer can you use the bridge pick up? or neck pick up?how it works?

thanx!!

[lotusfeet]

You can't use the neck pick-up when it is switched on (because it uses the bridge pickup to function).

[MetalliHead89]

COOOOOOOOOOL! How much was this my friend?

[lotusfeet]

Well if I remember rightly the guitar originally was about 700 pounds (UK), then the sustainer was $200NZ (I THINK), the other pup (a DiMarzio Evo - can't remember how much that was), and the installation came to like $100 I think. Just rough guessing these figures though (it was a while ago heheh).

[MetalliHead89]

ok cool, thanks for the info!

What is NZ dollars UK pound exchange rate roughly?

[lotusfeet]

Last time I checked $1NZ was roughly 40p.

[MetalliHead89]

awesome, might get my Maverick fitted with one then!

[realbluemeanie]

700 pounds!?? dude! you got rinsed.

[lawriepop]

I love how it just sounds like it's singing :) I really respect this video cos you're not trying to show off, but to demonstrate. :)

[hungrysparrow]

Beautiful violin type sound. What happened with Maverick guitars, I was thinking of getting one but can't seem to find them in the shops anymore?

[luta5]

theyve ceased trading=[[

was sad as they were the best on the market i reckon

[hungrysparrow]

Thats a real shame. I wonder if the guitars shall become collectable now due to their rarity.

[joeofdoom]

i didnt know they'd stopped making guitars, ah well my ones fucked anyway but my local guitar shop has a few in still. i shall have to get mine set up properly now i cant just get a new one.

[luta5]

yeah same itl probably stop sellin them when they run out of stock.

[MetalliHead89]

check out my Maverick guitar. two tone neck!!

RIP Maverick :'(

[blackroseimmortal77]

Well what actually happened i that they made a certain number of guitars and sold pretty much all of them t Russia apparently. There's one shop in UK called Intersound where Steve deals with the remaining ones. Lots and lots of one off customs in there to feast your eyes on. Also they still actually make guitars but in China and under a totally different name. I've been trying to track them down a while but to no avail!

[hungrysparrow]

Interesting, well I hope business goes well enough that they make some return to the uk in the ear future. I'll have to check out that Intersound shop.

[tomEwylde]

is that how you get those killer harmonics? from a sustainer pickup?

[twooos]

awesome dude, congratulations

[johnaiton]

awsums 5 Stars

[Authtime]

lol, ive got teh only white lefty maverick in teh world, i love maverick F1's so much! best guitar in teh world!

[johnaiton]

some beuatiful vai like improv dude

[InnerSilence123]

you have the sustainer installed on the middle???

does it make any difference if you installit on the neck position???

[lotusfeet]

noooope I have it installed in the neck (I bought the humbucker version, so I couldo only have it in bridge or neck pos. I'm not sure what difference it makes actually!

[k0nx]

You can only install the Sustainer in the Neck position. It needs the bridge pickup in order to get the feedback.

[MetalliHead89]

WOAH, how much was the sustainer pick up?

[lotusfeet]

Hmmm it was a while ago, but if I remember right it was about $200US.

[stevensvai]

I will totally buy a fernandes now! thanks for this!

[sillyheads]

try the x1 one they rule sound fucking awsum

[commandercod]

Fucking hell thats cool! it is like steve vai

[SkerrettTheSEX]

mavericks totally rule... but that's an f 1 with a middle pickup in it. f3's have creme binding on the necks!!! check my vid i have the only red one in the world... unless you get yours customed

[chiefkeckers]

sorry you look like soemeone who used to sell mavericks there. anyway loving the guitar :-)

[lotusfeet]

Thanks man =)  She's a real beauty!

[chiefkeckers]

do you live in the isle of wight?

[lotusfeet]

Nope, I live in New Zealand, why?

[mrcolin]

I want to get a guitar with the sustainer, I have a Fernandes Ravelle X. Pretty cool stuff.

[lotusfeet]

It actually wasn't a custom shop! I had never seen one either, if you look at the F3 in the Maverick catalogue its not identical to that, and its not identical to the F4 either - I just happened to come across it in a music shop I was working in at the time - p.s. yep fernandes sustainer

[chiefkeckers]

wow ive never seen an f-3 in black, was it a custom shop one? and is that fernandes sustainer?

[5hinmyoken]

nice! i totally forgot about these pickups for a couple years.

[soulonfire06]

totaly  like stevee vai :-]