Let's talk evertune bridges !

[ClintN667]

I had a solar with it and loved it. Ended up getting a mayones regius with one. I love them and I really like the way they feel against my palm.

Having a properly set up evertune bending should work the same. You basically get it to the edge of the zone so was you go out of the zone the bend is normal so the closer you have it to the edge the better.

When I play my mayones vs my LP or Aviator I never feel like I'm missing something tone wise or playability wise. I would have them in all my guitars way before getting a floyd. But as with everything it depends on your taste as a player and the guitar build itself. I feel like setting the evertune up is easy. I tend to get my guitars professionally set up but I have set up my evertune bridge guitars myself with very little hassle.

 

[Spaceboy]

Right, because you scientifically A/Bed a guitar with the stock bridge, then installed the Evertune and took meticulous recordings of before and after

I think it's fair to say that the Evertune bridge affects the sustain of a guitar to an extent. This will depend on a lot of different factors. This exact topic has come up many times. Most players who aren't total cork sniffers feel the advantages of the bridge outweigh any negatives in the sustain. I personally love the Evertune bridge, but it's got a different feel and implementation that takes some getting used to. Looking forward to the long overdue release of the Evertune V2. Supposedly it will require a smaller route and solve some of the (minor) issues with tone/sustain suck.

There's really no point in engaging with VESmedic. Anything you say will just make him get pissy, he'll just make tall claims and never back up anything he says.

 

[nigelpkay]

I think everyone here already covered the positives and negatives. I have a custom guitar that came with an Evertune, and then I bought a Gibson Explorer that I had one installed. I always hated gibsons because they never stayed in tune but now it’s a keeper. You do lose a little bit of tone since it’s a type of floating bridge, but the fact I just pick up my guitars and play instead of dicking around with constantly tuning them is well worth it. Even my Floyd ones piss me off because of temperature changes and stretching.
For recordings I tend to use the Evertune for rhythm and my non-Evertune guitars for the leads for sustain and bends.

 

[VESmedic]

There's really no point in engaging with VESmedic. Anything you say will just make him get pissy, he'll just make tall claims and never back up anything he says.

What tall claims do I make exactly that I never back up? Im not the one that started with the eye rolling sarcastic comment here. I gave my opinion, much like everyone else did in this thread, sorry you’re butthurt about it.

 

[Dino 939]

I'm curious what tonally you heard ? I'm researching all of this before pulling the trigger and love picking the brains of people who have actually used and listened....

Thx !

I know, that does not sound good.
Usually, there’s a reason ithat someone
is that fired up about it.
I get it.
I had a really cool custom builder dude
6 string ABR style bridge/tailpiece that worked
great but over-rode the wood of the guitar.
Notes reflected more then sustained, especially after the 12th fret.
Which was the straw that broke the camels back.
I actually lost sleep over that as it was installed on an old school Lemonburst.
But I could see getting around it if you
were hungry enough.

 

[Beyond Black]

There's really no point in engaging with VESmedic. Anything you say will just make him get pissy, he'll just make tall claims and never back up anything he says.

I’ve got no dog in this fight, but I’d have to say that his clips sound absolutely killer, and speak volumes to his credibility.

 

[Rexxyboy]

I've had 2 evertune guitars, both awesome. Les Paul Studio still sounds huge, and sustains just fine (maybe not as long as a hardtail, but plenty long enough musically). The bend range and feel can be dialled in with the allen wrench, that took some getting used to at first.

 

[CrystalSky]

I know, that does not sound good.
Usually, there’s a reason ithat someone
is that fired up about it.
I get it.
I had a really cool custom builder dude
6 string ABR style bridge/tailpiece that worked
great but over-rode the wood of the guitar.
Notes reflected more then sustained, especially after the 12th fret.
Which was the straw that broke the camels back.
I actually lost sleep over that as it was installed on an old school Lemonburst.
But I could see getting around it if you
were hungry enough.

If I only could fully understand you…

 

[Smash]

If I only could fully understand you…

The good news is, if he were banned, and came back under a new name, everyone would know it was him. No one else has that style of writing. I think I have seen two posts that were not in that format...maybe it was just messages; can't remember. Either way, if you read them enough, after about 2 years you start to understand what the hell he is saying. I always wondered what he was talking about and then people would respond to him and i would be amazed that someone could draw any meaning. I now speak fluent Dino

 

[vultures]

I've worked on countless evertune guitars. Most my guitars going forward will have evertunes in them.

• You can bend, you just have to set it in that zone for bending. It's as easy as turning the tuning peg a couple times. You can control how much it bends too. It can eliminate bending, bend a tiny bit or bend a lot. You really need to fine tune the "Zone" and your tuning to match this. You can go from no bend to bendy on the fly. You can also set strings independently. Want the 6 string to not bend at all, but the others to bend? You got it.
• Bending does feel different than normal guitars. You get used to it.
• I use a Peterson StroboPLUS HDC - I can get bands to stop completely.
• 80 Gauge is the biggest string you can fit in an evertune.
• 27" Scale Length should be the longest you have a guitar with these in it, string tapers longer than that really.. don't exist outside of 1 company.
• They aren't magic and there are tension, tuning and intonation limitations. The same on every guitar. People think Evertunes are a blank check to put a 30" or 27" guitar into absolutely ignorant tunings. It's not.
• Tone debate outweighs the benefit and time saved. I've had artists reach out and thank me for a "good set up" because their evertune saved them tons of time and money in the studio.. You also only really need 1 or 2 guitars on tour now, so you save on trailer space, shipping or whatever.

 

[Smash]

I've worked on countless evertune guitars. Most my guitars going forward will have evertunes in them.

• You can bend, you just have to set it in that zone for bending. It's as easy as turning the tuning peg a couple times. You can control how much it bends too. It can eliminate bending, bend a tiny bit or bend a lot. You really need to fine tune the "Zone" and your tuning to match this. You can go from no bend to bendy on the fly. You can also set strings independently. Want the 6 string to not bend at all, but the others to bend? You got it.
• Bending does feel different than normal guitars. You get used to it.
• I use a Peterson StroboPLUS HDC - I can get bands to stop completely.
• 80 Gauge is the biggest string you can fit in an evertune.
• 27" Scale Length should be the longest you have a guitar with these in it, string tapers longer than that really.. don't exist outside of 1 company.
• They aren't magic and there are tension, tuning and intonation limitations. The same on every guitar. People think Evertunes are a blank check to put a 30" or 27" guitar into absolutely ignorant tunings. It's not.
• Tone debate outweighs the benefit and time saved. I've had artists reach out and thank me for a "good set up" because their evertune saved them tons of time and money in the studio.. You also only really need 1 or 2 guitars on tour now, so you save on trailer space, shipping or whatever.

I liked mine, but it was annoying that i exceeded saddle stress limitations by going to certain tunings with common strings. I never broke my evertune, but had friends with saddle problems. I took the evertune apart just to see how it all worked. Very simple. When I got a floyd, it was much more complicated to take all the way down.

I think the evertune would be the ultimate rhythm guitarists bridge especially if they didn't care about bending. Then you can get in the non bending zone and press extremely hard on palm mutes to get some different sounds that would push other guitars out of tune. I didn't have problems finding the right zone for bending, and I didn't notice a difference in bending, because the ear really effects how much you bend anyway, so if you bend a tiny bit less or more to get the same sound, it isn't much different than different tension feel between string guage vs tuning.

In the end, i didn't want to worry about the bridge failing because i liked using heavier strings for a tuning, and i didn't want to have to order custom saddles, I am very pleased with a Tom and it stays in tune great for me.

 

[RevDrucifer]

I've worked on countless evertune guitars. Most my guitars going forward will have evertunes in them.

• You can bend, you just have to set it in that zone for bending. It's as easy as turning the tuning peg a couple times. You can control how much it bends too. It can eliminate bending, bend a tiny bit or bend a lot. You really need to fine tune the "Zone" and your tuning to match this. You can go from no bend to bendy on the fly. You can also set strings independently. Want the 6 string to not bend at all, but the others to bend? You got it.
• Bending does feel different than normal guitars. You get used to it.
• I use a Peterson StroboPLUS HDC - I can get bands to stop completely.
• 80 Gauge is the biggest string you can fit in an evertune.
• 27" Scale Length should be the longest you have a guitar with these in it, string tapers longer than that really.. don't exist outside of 1 company.
• They aren't magic and there are tension, tuning and intonation limitations. The same on every guitar. People think Evertunes are a blank check to put a 30" or 27" guitar into absolutely ignorant tunings. It's not.
• Tone debate outweighs the benefit and time saved. I've had artists reach out and thank me for a "good set up" because their evertune saved them tons of time and money in the studio.. You also only really need 1 or 2 guitars on tour now, so you save on trailer space, shipping or whatever.

This is quite spot-on!