A: Tuners vary. Of course, you can use any tuner, except for one thing you should keep in mind.
Electronic tuners have to have a ‘window’ of frequency that is acceptable. If the window is narrow, then it is very very difficult for the human to hit the exact spot where the light turns green.
But if [...]
Megatar FAQ
All —
Category Archives: All
Q: What’s the best tuner to use?
Q: What’s the Best Way to Tune Up, with the Buzz Feiten Intonation System?
A: When you have the Buzz Feiten Intonation System installed on a guitar or a tapping instrument, your playing will sound more ‘in tune’ than on a normal guitar. But does it require some special way of tuning up?
Not really. Of course, the better you tune up, the better you will sound. However, the Feiten [...]
Q: How can I Reduce or Eliminate Hum?
A: Generally speaking, there is nothing in a guitar that actually generates hum, generally you can assume that the hum is being induced into the guitar, or it is being added to the signal of the guitar.
Experimentation is your friend. Here are some possibilities –
RECEIVING BROADCAST HUM
There is something in the environment which is “broadcasting” [...]
Q: How to Make a String Deadener / String Mute?
A: People sometimes ask if they can buy one of our String Deadeners, sometimes called a String Mute.
You don’t need to buy one from us, because you can make your own string deadener easy as pie.
Just go down to Ace Hardware, in the kitchen department, and look for ’shelf liner’. It’s a spongy material, usually [...]
Q: How to map the Megatar fretboard?
A: We are working on a chart that shows all the notes on the fretboard, and hopefully that will become available soon.
However, in the meantime, in the Method Book #1, in the Appendix, you will find some blank fretboard graphs, which can be photo-copied. These are only 8 frets long, and don’t cover the entire [...]
Q: How does one adjust the relative volume across the strings?
A:Without seeing and hearing an instrument, of course we cannot diagnose the specific issue of an instrument (any instrument) and its action, But here is some general information …
(1) First, it is a fact that little tiny strings wiggling in a magnetic field create a smaller signal than great big ‘ol strings wiggling in a [...]
Q: How can I get a Megatar when I don’t have enough money?
A:Well, who hasn’t been broke? Pretty much anyone who’s had a full life has had that experience at one time or anther. If you’re interested to hear about Traktor’s poverty in the college years, read this.
But of course, you realize that ‘poverty’ and ‘doing well’ are mainly states of mind, depending upon your being grateful [...]
Q: Where can I try a Megatar? Any music stores?
A: Someday, tapping instruments will be found in any music store. (If in fact, in that future, music stores still exist.)
But that day is still some years in the future. And in some ways this works to your advantage.
For example, one of the reasons our pricing is (relatively) low for a specialty instrument is that [...]
Q: What Amps work best with Mobius instruments?
A:We cannot answer this question exactly, because your music and your ears will determine what’s true for you. However, as an overview, here is some information about
the three ways we’ve seen people use amplification for touch-style instruments –
TWO AMPS
Because the instrument has bass and melody outputs, some people simply use a bass amp for the [...]
Q: Where are Mobius Megatar instruments made?
A: Mobius Megatar instruments are made in our factory shp in the little village of Weed, California.
Yes, Weed, California. No joke.
On some of our models in the past (and perhaps in the future) we have obtained bodies and necks from overseas, mostly Korea and China, where they have very good factories for doing that kind [...]
