Infinite sustain for steel guitars.
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Infinite sustain for steel guitars.
Hi all, I'm an inventor of musical devices and thought you'd be just the sort of guys who would appreciate it. I've already had feedback from some steel players which seems to be very positive but I've noted that some would like a slide made from metal. I'm working on this but any, (polite) feedback would be great as naturally, I want to appeal to you lot. Here's the kickstarter link if you're interested: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vi ... ject_build
Thanks all and stay safe!
Gareth
Thanks all and stay safe!
Gareth
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Thanks for the input guys. Interesting that you say you'd like to have it hollow. I thought steel players didn't play that way, you just held the tone bar/slide..
Wireless has some advantages - not lead for one, though in practice no-one who's played it has had an issues with it so far. Problem is, as soon as you battery power something you have the eternal issues of it running down. A wireless/bluetooth solution might not be very reliable on stage either. I appreciate your comments though.. Thanks, Gareth
Wireless has some advantages - not lead for one, though in practice no-one who's played it has had an issues with it so far. Problem is, as soon as you battery power something you have the eternal issues of it running down. A wireless/bluetooth solution might not be very reliable on stage either. I appreciate your comments though.. Thanks, Gareth
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This is a great idea and I wish you you luck.
The tone bar/control unit appears to be larger than most steel guitar bars. Can the light color be disabled or have the color modified in some way?
What’s your target price?
The tone bar/control unit appears to be larger than most steel guitar bars. Can the light color be disabled or have the color modified in some way?
What’s your target price?
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Re: Infinite sustain for steel guitars.
Wow Gareth. This is very cool.Gareth Whittock wrote:Hi all, I'm an inventor of musical devices and thought you'd be just the sort of guys who would appreciate it. I've already had feedback from some steel players which seems to be very positive but I've noted that some would like a slide made from metal. I'm working on this but any, (polite) feedback would be great as naturally, I want to appeal to you lot. Here's the kickstarter link if you're interested: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vi ... ject_build
Thanks all and stay safe!
Gareth
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The slide in the demo is 24mm outside diameter. I thought that was pretty standard. Is that not the case?Brad Bechtel wrote:This is a great idea and I wish you you luck.
The tone bar/control unit appears to be larger than most steel guitar bars. Can the light color be disabled or have the color modified in some way?
What’s your target price?
Yes the light can be disabled via an internal jumper but it can be set that way before shipping to save you having to do it yourself.
The final price will be around £200 fo the complete system but the Kickstarter campaign allows for a discount to get us going with production..
Thanks all, Gareth
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Re: Infinite sustain for steel guitars.
Wow Gareth. This is very cool.
Thanks Troy I've been working on it for some time. I'm making another video today to show more features.. It'll go up on Youtube and the Kickstarter page mentioned above..
Thanks Troy I've been working on it for some time. I'm making another video today to show more features.. It'll go up on Youtube and the Kickstarter page mentioned above..
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Innovative idea, Gareth, good luck with this project!
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Pretty sure the 3 3/8ths is the total length (to the very end). I just pulled those numbers from the standard bar size on the BJS website, which is probably the most commonly used bar. Not really sure how to calculate the curvature of the end.
I would definitely consider buying this. I use an ebow quite a bit with one of the groups I play in (if we're ever allowed to play again...) Getting that effect across all the strings would be amazing. I can see the light feature being very useful too for finding the bar when the lights are low. A lot of the time the only things we can see are those things with lights attached to them.
I would definitely consider buying this. I use an ebow quite a bit with one of the groups I play in (if we're ever allowed to play again...) Getting that effect across all the strings would be amazing. I can see the light feature being very useful too for finding the bar when the lights are low. A lot of the time the only things we can see are those things with lights attached to them.
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Yeah, I thought the lights would be useful onstage but I'll make them optional. I think they're a bit showy for some folks. So the glass slide I'm using is actually very close to 85mm and is 24mm outside diameter as opposed to 22.25. Not much in it but I reckon I could get it down to 22mm if it makes that much difference. Thanks for your input Brett - I'm learning a lot..Brett Lanier wrote:Pretty sure the 3 3/8ths is the total length (to the very end). I just pulled those numbers from the standard bar size on the BJS website, which is probably the most commonly used bar. Not really sure how to calculate the curvature of the end.
I would definitely consider buying this. I use an ebow quite a bit with one of the groups I play in (if we're ever allowed to play again...) Getting that effect across all the strings would be amazing. I can see the light feature being very useful too for finding the bar when the lights are low. A lot of the time the only things we can see are those things with lights attached to them.
Hi Gareth
This device has a huge amount of potential. What is the voltage required to drive the bar?
Thank you.
KB
This device has a huge amount of potential. What is the voltage required to drive the bar?
Thank you.
KB
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