In the future guitar tuning problems will be a thing of the past!

[Frets99]

http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2010-05/invention-awards-plug-and-rock-out

 

In a small engineering studio in Bronxville, New York, Cosmos Lyles and Paul Dowd eagerly take turns at the dry-erase board, sketching out diagrams of springs, levers and tension curves. This may not seem very rock

[guitarman3001]

$500K seems a bit excessive for a tuner. I think I'll stick with my $20 korg.

[Frets99]

$500K seems a bit excessive for a tuner. I think I'll stick with my $20 korg.

In the future $20 tuners will cost $500k!!!

[guitarman3001]

In the future $20 tuners will cost $500k!!!

hrmm...so you're saying I should buy one now?


and btw, didn't gibson already come out with something like this on the robot guitars?

[jak83]

The $500k is what it cost them in resources to create... not an MSRP. :poke:

[Into Nation]

That sure wasn't 500k toanz!

[etawful]

and btw, didn't gibson already come out with something like this on the robot guitars?

 

 

Not really. The robot guitars tune when you tell them to if I'm not mistaken. This thing (theoretically) just doesn't go out of tune period or that's how they represent it anyway.

 

That said, I think it has a LONG way to go before it's ready for prime time, and the tone from the guitar in that video makes me want to vomit, in fact, I think I will, excuse me a moment. . . . .

 

 

 

Ah, much better.

[peavey_impact]

I don't understand how you could bend strings with this system

[Angry Tele]

thats the worst sounding les paul I ever heard

FAIL

[paul44]

I predict that in 6 months no-one will remember the EverTune.It's a complete non-starter and it looks hideous.

[Frets99]

But you gotta admire the chutzpa!!!

[mfergel]

I don't understand how you could bend strings with this system

Good point unless it doesn't respond quickly enough. Can still bend strings with a floyd but you have the tension of the springs in relation to the other strings keeping it a bit more locked in position but you can still see the tremolo move upwards when bending require that you over bend beyond what you would with a stop tailpiece.

[Into Nation]

I don't understand how you could bend strings with this system

 

In the video they showed how you crank the tuner right to the point where the string begins to go sharp. The problem I see is that's where I would like to have it, but since it's right at the edge of the spring compensation realm, the guitar could naturally go out of tune sharp.

[Angry Tele]

I predict that in 6 hours no-one will remember the EverTune.It's a complete non-starter and it looks hideous.

[BryanMichael]

60+ years of rock and roll and we never needed this before...part of the whole thing about playing an instrument is adapting as you go- if a classical musician doesn't need it for his cello, then I don't think we need it for a plank of wood with some magnets and wires...

[Doctor Morbius]

[webwarmiller]

This is exactly how any floating bridge works only that it's taken to the individual string level.

[BoneNut]

Looks cool and the video as well but do you think he has enough string buzz on that LP?!?