rtm
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Post by rtm on May 23, 2018 5:17:03 GMT
I don't know when these first appeared on Thomann but at least it was my first time seeing them today.
The first fanfrets I've seen that wouldn't embarrass me, they look great! Says they're in stock in 2-3 weeks, anyone taking a punt? I might. I just really hope the picture of the left one is honest about the colour, that it indeed has a sort of greenish driftwood-esque hue. If it just looks gray/ black in person that wouldn't be as cool.
One risk with these are the unique pickups, they really have to be amazing to validate this purchase for anyone who's not a beginner.
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Post by MartinB on May 23, 2018 8:02:40 GMT
Must be the first guitars from the fancy line coming through, funny I thought they’d all turn up at once.
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kptz
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Post by kptz on May 23, 2018 13:26:57 GMT
I'm sure fanned frets aren't for me. There's nothing about the sound and playability of a strat or tele that I don't like whilst I never seem to gel with Gibsonny scale lengths so I'm pretty sure I don't want to incorporate it. Seems a bit like solving a problem I don't have. But I would be really interested in picking one up. It always looks to me as though you would have to really over rotate your wrist to play barre chords anywhere below the 5th fret. It baffles me why, if you're going to fan the frets, you don't take that problem away. I found this builder, Rick Toone, who is trying to fix the problem and that's on a bass where barre chords are far less common. I can imagine there would be a whole new learning curve playing bends too. Before I got my fanfret I went online and did a bit of a search. I heard one guy saying he had a friend come over and play his fanfret and after about 2 hours he asked "how do you like the fanned fret?" To which his friend replied "what fanned fret?!" My point being that you cannot feel the fanned frets. You do not change the way you fret notes or chords, and it has virtually 0 impact on bends. From a playing stand point, it is exactly the same as a regular guitar. Also, you dont buy a fanfret because of the gibson or fender scale, you buy it because of the 27" on the low B, while retaining "normal" tension on the rest of the strings. The low B is where the magic happens and that is he problem the fanfret is trying to solve Just my 2 cents.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 13:44:30 GMT
Can we not leave the 7th string to Bass players instead
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DefJef
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Post by DefJef on May 23, 2018 13:52:37 GMT
Thanks for that kptz . I do like the baritone option and having it incorporated on that TE7 could just about appeal to me. Must try one and see if that over rotation causes me difficulties. Pickups wise it's not my cup of tea but something might be.
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Post by salteedog on May 23, 2018 14:14:10 GMT
I gotta say I don't see the need for fan-frets or for extra strings. Primarily useful for metal/ ultra-precise high gain genres presumably.
Those guitars remind me of some of the Chapman ones though. The one on the right is a bit Salvador Dali.
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Post by salteedog on May 23, 2018 14:17:45 GMT
What I do like the idea of is a 4 or 5 string guitar! (Or even 8 strings like a mando-cello)... The step from G to B annoys my sense of symmetry. (Yes I know there are alternative tunings and I do often use them).
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 17:49:27 GMT
You can certainly make good music with 2 strings only. Or with one string and a a Sub'n'Up pedal
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kptz
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Post by kptz on May 23, 2018 17:52:43 GMT
Thanks for that kptz . I do like the baritone option and having it incorporated on that TE7 could just about appeal to me. Must try one and see if that over rotation causes me difficulties. Pickups wise it's not my cup of tea but something might be. To be honest, I would not buy that guitar because of the pickups and routing. My ff-7 is the 2017 model and has the standard emg pikup route, no idea why they decided to change that, especially since those stock pickups are very bad. Try one if you get the chance. 7 strings may not be for you (they aren't for me), but fanfret is not as bad as you might think. At least I got pleasently surprised.
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DefJef
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Post by DefJef on May 23, 2018 19:27:01 GMT
I gotta say I don't see the need for fan-frets or for extra strings. Primarily useful for metal/ ultra-precise high gain genres presumably. Those guitars remind me of some of the Chapman ones though. The one on the right is a bit Salvador Dali. I do like the idea of a lower seventh string on a tele. They're already great sounding but to be able to go down to D as well without going to Drop D tuning could be fun. Whether fan frets would be necessary to do this may be a valid point. I regularly seem to do riffs or licks that need the lower D and I end going to the open D string or whizzing up the 10th fret to do it but both of those solutions are an octave higher and give a different effect. Just going low would be lovely. You get used to that weird G to B jump but I know what you mean. In fact my guitar player brain gets very addled when playing a 4 string bass because it can't seem to forget that the top string isn't like a guitar's top E but behaves just like the G (it IS a G!).
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Post by MartinB on May 23, 2018 19:35:19 GMT
Drone strings would be lovely.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 20:12:41 GMT
TC has a new pedal called FLUORESCENCE LINK if you want an affordable shimmer pedal. I might buy this one as I think it sounds better for these Drones than my Marine.
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Post by MartinB on May 23, 2018 21:26:23 GMT
I have been looking at some reverb pedals but tbh it’s going to be quite a while until I will have the money for one.
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