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 [...]
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Category Archives: Guitar
Q: What’s the Best Way to Tune Up, with the Buzz Feiten Intonation System?
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: 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: Many Megatar instruments are inexpensive, but your sound is better than others costing more. How you do that?
A: It’s a matter of priorities. In our design process, we’re mainly interested in the sound and playability. So you think, what do we know sounds best? How can we utilize the science of sound? And what will give us superior playability?
For example, guitar-builders know if you want good tone, the instrument must be somewhat [...]
Q: Does the Buzz Feiten Intonation System really work?
A: Check it out with your own ears. It works. Major players all over the globe, including Stu Hamm, Liona Boyd, Robert Fripp, Larry Carlton, Jimmy Haslip, Joe Satriani, and Steve Vai all have good ears. Every one of them will now play on nothing else. You’ve got ears. Give a listen to a Feiten-tuned [...]
Q: I worked a long time to learn six strings on my guitar. How can playing these twelve strings be easy?
A: It’s easier than it looks. Did you ever hear about the guy who, seeing a piano for the first time, said, “Man! How can you ever mash all those notes at once?”
It’s the same idea. You don’t play them all at once. In fact, we start out just playing three strings just above fret [...]
Q: What does the word ‘Megatar’ mean?
A: It’s a made-up word, from Greek ‘mega’ meaning large, and ‘guitar’ meaning that stringed instrument we all like so much. It’s a type of ‘big guitar’, the idea being that it’s more than a guitar.
Because there is apparently no agreed-upon generic word on the planet to describe this class of touch-style instrument which has [...]
