Hello World

This is a brief run through the latest ideas I've been working on with the guitar. Fernandes native elite w/ sustainer (humbucker sized) and seymour duncan jb (actually a tb4 trem spaced humbucker, but who is counting?) through a Line6 POD2, directly to some kenwood speakers. Actually, for such a setup this sounds really good. The guitar, now sadly deceased, had been modded with a tremsetter and metal knobs, as well as a metal jack plate to replace the broken original.

Everything in this is original, except the last few seconds which is an arrangement of the NIN song "The Day the Whole World Went Away." I hope to do a full cover of that soon.

With the sustainer on, all the sound comes through the bridge jb. That's fine, as it's an excellent and versatile pickup, both clean and distorted. Shortly after this vid, I fried the electronics (you can see them start to go here, when I have trouble switching off the sustainer. Sadly, coils broke in both pickups at the same time! I must have done something wonky), so I'm thinking of replacing them with an EMG set, 81 tw in the bridge and 89 in the neck, with an assortment of EQ mods thrown in (phase toggle, gain boost, eq, spc, exg). Hope I have room, but I've been making guitars for a bit now, so I should be able to find the space pretty easily, with just a little drilling. Thankfully, the Native elite has plenty of space inside, and already has the battery compartment with easy access to the battery (no screwdriver needed!). If you find one of these used anywhere, give it a shot. It doesn't play too fast, but has a nice feel and an unfinished neck. Add a tremsetter and you won't notice the licensed floyd rose! Once I played one of these at guitar center, I knew it was perfect for me (I do mostly rhythm and picked chords as you can see) so I ordered the very last one musicians friend had in stock.

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[Arlabester]

hey, how well does the tremsetter make the bridge stay in tune?

[DecreasingRange]

When the tremsetter is dialed in right, most trem use won't put you out of tune, sting bends won't put you out of tune, and small to medium tuning changes won't pull you out of tune. Break a string and, yes, it'll be out of tune. Dive bomb repeatedly and, yes, you'll be out of tune, although often it won't be by too much. I put a D-tuna on this thing when I put the emgs in, and when I change tuning from d to e there is some pitch problems but that is more from the d-tuna not always sitting right

[oleshatterbutt]

I recently found a couple of Fernandes guitars on ebay pretty cheap(a retro-rocket and a monterey)- both have the sustainer system,but the single toggle mini version and a push-pull pot.Please tell me what if any in your opinion is the newer 2 mini toggle sustainer guitars' advantages?I've not yet tried a new version since they tend to be more expensive here in Germany.Any insights would be really apreciated,and nice playing!Thanks-Iris

[DecreasingRange]

I haven't tried the newer sustainer units, but as far as I can tell the only difference is that the new units have the option of a "blend" mode that has both the regular sustain and the harmonic sustain together. The older single toggle units can only use one mode at a time, selected by the push/pull knob. I guess the advantage on the newer ones is another sound to play with, and I'm sure it's fun. I'd rather save my money though. The next step in sustainers is the moog guitar which costs a mint

[spaterman]

Yea awesome!!

Whats the trem-setter like? can you do vibrato with it

[DecreasingRange]

thanks! The trem-setter is really nice, makes the bridge act more like a stop-tail, so tuning is much easier and bends don't make bass notes go out of tune. You can still do vibrato, but the feel is definitely much more stiff. Still able to dive bomb tho

[multishades1]

I have a Fernandes Native Elite with sustainer for sale on ebay right now. There is 5 days left on the auction and the price is at $200 right now. Check it out it is a beautiful guitar.

Nice playing - nice vid.

[jklmnug]

it sounds a little out of tune. did you ever have troubling tuning it? cuz i have a fernandes and its intonation is awful

[melw4]

I have discovered a brilliant pedal combination with my sustainer-I am using a vintage 80's tc electronic parametric eq sustain pedal into a sabine fuzzstortion pedal.Amazing!Instantly transformed my sound from inspirationally great to unbelievable.I was able to cop Mick Ronson's tone in seconds,and I only have a 1x12" 25watt combo amplifier.I was looking for a hotcake overdrive pedal(they are the standard favourite here for distortion) when I came upon these two pedals.Lovely little boxes!

[horzez4life]

amazing

[SLAYERhardlad]

prossecor/???

[peeweeruIe]

please replace it with emgs and a emg gain boost switch like the pa2 coz there is no video on youtube of what it does and how well it works il subscribe so if you do il know

[sasquatch9934]

are you able to do pull ups using a tremsetter? (some people call it a reverse divebomb). I heard by some people you couldnt but then one guy who owns/owned 7 tremsetters said you could so i just wanted to make sure.