True Temperament Frets

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AiRdAd wrote:What say you?
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Steve Vai uses the system on his main touring guitar at the moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uehDWQNActA
Looks like a badly iced birthday cake :mental:
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Looks about as necessary as a handle on a guitar...
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String bending is out then?
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Yeah I can't get over the aesthetic weirdness, and my guitars are so badly intonated at the moment that nothing but open strings are in tune anyway... :lol:
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Spose it's okay if you have true temperament fingers but I tend to avoid slamming mine in a car door.
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You know, I think I could cope with it based on the random places my fingertips land. Maybe some likeable weird in the bends.
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distortion provides all the temperament i need.ANGRY.
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GrantB wrote:String bending is out then?
Doesn't affect bending.

What I remember about these frets is that even though they aim to provide better intonation across the board, some chords will still sound more in tune than others. I believe they have different versions of the 'pattern' that you can choose from because of this. So yeah, It's an improvement but not the perfect solution that some people think it is.

Still a cool idea though if you can afford it!
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Refrets would be a total pink taco.
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GrantB wrote:Refrets would be a total pink taco.
My OCD was thinking, how would I tape them off to polish them :-)
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AiRdAd wrote:What say you?
fabes04.jpg
Steve Vai uses the system on his main touring guitar at the moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uehDWQNActA
Check out from about 7.45 onwards, Vai has been using these kind of guitars on/off since 2007 and probably earlier...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b58Xil8RfRY[/youtube]

He explains it pretty well in that clip :wink:
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I think they're a great idea if you have perfect pitch and some stuff annoys you. I have tin ears :) though some stuff still annoys me and occasionally I just tweak the tuning to make up for it... otherwise.... I wouldn't kick it out of bed mind, but.
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They should have put these on the 2015 Gibson range. It would go with all the other wacky shit and match the elderly scrawl on the headstock!
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isn't this just something they made up so they could use all the fret wire the apprentice screwed up?? My first thought is how the fuck would you cut the fret slots?
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