If it's setup correctly, it doesn't defeat the purpose at all. It just stays in tune, you can bend normally, etc. I have three Evertune equipped EC/Eclipses, they've become my main stage guitars.
This x1000!
Ever since I got my Solar I keep seeing brainchilds on the internet post a NGD, say something stupid like “You don’t even need to stretch the strings!” then a week later they’re selling the guitar because “it effects bending”
They wouldn’t be on half of ESP and Schecter’s lineup if that were the case, nor would you be seeing guys like Devin Townsend using them.
I know you’re aware, but for those who haven’t used one- your strings still stretch. When someone is claiming it’s negatively effecting bends, it’s because they’re between the two zones. You just turn the tuning peg an 1/8th turn and you’re back in the right zone.
I grew up on Gilmour and Wylde, if I couldn’t bend all over and do squealies on it, it’d be useless to me.
And the usual line that comes in these discussions is the “My guitars don’t go out of tune already”, well, I’d urge ya to go plug into a tuner, tune up, play for 10 minutes and check your tuning, you’ll most likely see some strings are out .01, .03, .02 cents, etc. If you’re recording and double tracking, that’s going to be noticed unless you tune between every single damn take. That shit drives me fucking NUTS. I’m saving about 2 hours worth of tuning for every song I record because of this thing.
And I’m surprised they don’t market this more than the one sentence on their site, but the intonation across and up the neck is absolutely improved as a result; I hadn’t touched this guitar in 6 months, dead ass strings, I just plugged it in, dialed in the most unpleasing tone that would highlight all the beating and recorded this going over maj/min chords and then at the end I’m playing as many octaves in as many positions on the neck at once.
There’s some warbling when I‘m up around the 15th fret because my fingers are too big to barre up there and I was pinching the strings.
