A: There are two different ways to evaluate what you get with the cost of your investment …
(a) You can compare the prices of the two most-similar instruments.
For example, compare the TrueTapper Eclipse 12-string Megatar ($1290) with the Chapman ‘Grand Stick’ ($2500), and you will discover that the lower-cost Eclipse actually gives you better features [...]
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How To Count the Frets
[reprinted by permission from MegArticles Two-Handed Tapping Archives]
Image by Brian Hathcock via Flickr
HOW DO YOU COUNT FRETS?
It’s not a silly question.
I have been surprised by how many times this question comes up.
Since this little question baffles so many people, I did a search on our favoriite search engine, and didn’t find the answer there. Google [...]
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 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 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: 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: Has Mobius Megatar developed the perfect instrument?
A: They’re pretty darn good, but we don’t think they’re perfect. Perfection is a moving target. As soon as you’ve improved one thing, it’s impossible not to see something else that could be done better.
In the southwestern United States, there was once a tribe who believed that if they made a pot or a blanket [...]
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 [...]
