Customer Query - Neck

[dingobass]

BTW, I'm a Buzz Feiten system installer. Much better intonation.

(There's only two retrofitters in NSW : http://buzzfeiten.com/dealers/asia/asiaan.htm

I really should get my details updated. It's been a few months...)

Hey dMac... I have heard about the Buzz system.. is it really as good as they say?
From what I can gather it is similar to having a zero fret...Is this right?

Quote from dingobass on November 8, 2012, 18:09

BTW, I'm a Buzz Feiten system installer. Much better intonation.

(There's only two retrofitters in NSW : http://buzzfeiten.com/dealers/asia/asiaan.htm

I really should get my details updated. It's been a few months...)

Hey dMac... I have heard about the Buzz system.. is it really as good as they say?
From what I can gather it is similar to having a zero fret...Is this right?

Hey, DingoBass

If you want to see if it works for you, there's an email address you can use on the above page where I can give you a rough trick that gives you an idea if it works. p.s. I've moved from Elderslie...

It changes individual intontation, adjusts individual scale length, and for tuning flattens a couple of strings, sharpens a couple of others. It's not a blanket change. And you need a tuner like a Petterson or Planet Waves (unless I teach you the tuning trick).

What it looks at:

If you tune a guitar to have a perfectly sounding barre A chord on the 5th fret, it sounds nice playing the chord. Now without changing anything, play a barre D on the 5th fret. Sounds like crap. A guitar can't be tuned like, say, a piano, which is why I mentioned Bach (that was the piece that demonstrated for the first time Tempered Tuning. I had to do a friggin' Powerpoint on that. Wow...).

Is it any good? I use it on my strat, the Telecowster, and probably on Junior. I don't use it on my Godin or 335 because they sound alright for the purposes I use them. People I've played with used it. Washburn use it on a lot of their gear, and they say: "Fans of the system include Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Liona Boyd and Andy Summers." (Where's my name? ) Horses for courses. Some people like it, others don't.

There's another guy who now does necks where each fret is staggered (not in a fan shape, in a step shape) which Vai uses on a couple of axes, but the neck last I heard was over $1k. I'm not that good!