For both ZenTappers and Megatars we generally recommend the BassBottom tuning, where bass is tuned in fourths, just like a standard 6-string bass. Learning is much faster with this tuning, and most of what you already know from guitar or bass transfers quickly, plus your right hand picks up what your left hand knows very [...]
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Q: How Can I Compare the Sound of Chapman Stick and Mobius Megatar?
A: A member of the Tappistry.Org was curious about this same question some time back. He had in his possession a TrueTapper Eclipse, and his Stick, and so me made identical recordings — minimal effects, same settings — and as a further comparison he also recorded the same song on a cheap Strat-knockoff. It’s a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Q: I like the Mobius Megatar mission. What can I do to help?
A: Thanks. What we’d ask is that, if you find this instrument interesting, if you’ve downloaded a copy of the method book or maybe you get the free newsletter, and you think it’s a good thing, then we’d ask just one thing – Spread the word. Thanks.
