True tempermant necks. Anyone use them before?


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07/15/2010 9:17 pm
I'm kind of branching this off from another thread I just made. Has anyone tried these types of necks out? I have no doubt they are better note for note, but I'm wondering how it affects bending. I would guess that if you're bending up a fret that changes, your pitch would change too wouldn't it?

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07/15/2010 9:45 pm
I've seen them about a year and a half ago. The reviews/comments or what ever it was didn't seem to portray it in a glowing light. Sorry i can't offer up more insight than that.

I'd be interested though in hearing from someone as well. I kind of look at it this way though, if it was something really favorable, you'd see them around on a lot of guitars. I've never seen on other than on the internet and that was only by chance.
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07/15/2010 10:36 pm
I think bends would be pretty whacked. Fanned frets might be a happy medium
http://www.novaxguitars.com/

(This is just the first Google link that came up.)
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07/16/2010 12:45 am
Ya that's true, not extremely popular among pro guitarists.
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07/16/2010 6:49 am
I speak heresy here, but this is the twistin' truth as revealed to me in more than 40 years of playin' guitar:

Exact intonation is not only unimportant, it is impossible.

Don't worry about it.

This is what my Gretsch G6128TCG Duo Jet looked like when I first got it:



I can't see much of it when I'm playing, but I can definitely hear the difference. And that POS bridge that was factory installed is never gonna be put back on my guitar for as long as I wanna play it! Tone is now amazing; chords sound right anywhere on the neck, and sustain is now better than I really need.
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07/16/2010 11:32 am
Originally Posted by: LordathestringsI speak heresy here, but this is the twistin' truth as revealed to me in more than 40 years of playin' guitar


There are reasons we can have this very discussion with folks from around the world, got other folks living for months at a time in a station floating in space... and yet the guitar model has not change much since inception.

Many things have been tried, and lots of effects have been created. But that basic instrument? Pretty much unchanged.
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07/16/2010 3:22 pm
Originally Posted by: Lordathestrings
In theory, that adjustable bridge would allow each string to be intonated perfectly, and nirvana would be mine.


Well, not really. Perfect intonation cannot be acheived because of the slight tone differences in the frets. A movable bridge or something similar only changes the length of the string. The individual tones are still determined by the spacing of the frets.
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