Sorry, I may have missed something.
Which pedal are we talking about here?
I’ve had to carry an Eb instrument quite a few times…
I was responding to @troub. It sounds like very nice pedal. Offers lots of alternate tunnings. But, with how much loss of audio fidelity? Every pedal in the chain takes some away.
As I understood what he said, it is a tuner, not an actual effect?
Handy for rapidly getting your instrument into alternate tunings, but not a pitch shifter?
Perhaps @troub can clarify as an actual user…?
D’oh. I misread the post.
They do sell pitch shifter pedals. But I’m not sure they do a great job on Chords. Shifting a pure note is easy. Chords have complex overtones.
No worries. I’ve played around with shifters… octividers… harmonizers etc, but I agree they don’t work well polyphonically.
The Holy Grail would be something that can take an input from an unmodified guitar and massage it into a modeled… well, any guitar type you want, in any tuning. Sort of like the Variax but without needing the specialized hardware.
Mind you, DSP technology is getting scary good these days; I wouldn’t be too surprised to see something like this in the not so distant future…
It’s certainly a conversation starter.
But sexy? Let’s face it, nobody fancies the bass player. Unless he’s Paul McCartney, of course…
Yes, “just” a tuner. It’s a regular chromatic tuner (mine has a strobe mode), but the polyphonic function you just strum all the open strings and it shows if each one is fine or high or low. So you can set the tuning you’re aiming for, so if you’re intended to tune to Eb you can still hit all the open strings and it won’t ping them all as being too low. That’s all. But it’s a cool tuner and I find the polyphonic mode is great for quick fixups in between more full tuneups.
I was thinking of a Kemper head. Scott Raines from APB ( Artimus Pyle Band) has one in his studio. He was teaching the correct way to play Simple Man. It’s in key B but recorded with the instruments a half step down. Played in C.
Scott looks around says I don’t have a guitar here tuned down. Flicks a switch on his Kemper and teaches the lesson. Chords ring out perfectly a half step down.
I’d love to have a Kemper head but not at $1800. Scott is a pro musician and can afford it.
Anyone learn both guitar parts in the Simple Man intro? You can hear one guitar in each ear. The notes they pick are almost identical but slightly different. Together they mesh into that famous lick.
I only know the main guitar lick (left ear). If I play with a buddy they play the same thing. I am thinking about learning the 2nd guitar intro for jamming with friends.
Scott has been analyzing and playing Lynyrd Skynyrd for 40 years. He’s hung out with Ed King and asked questions on licks.
Nah, Paul’s not my type, but I did once fancy a bass player that eventually turned out to be a relative. That was odd to realize…
But that’s besides the point! I’m talking about the bass here. 
In news related to that, I just got the tracking number for my Pure Salem Classic Creep bass! With any luck, it’ll be here as an early Yule present from myself back in February. 
Well, what’s so strange about a down-home family romance? (To quote The Dan)…
Have fun with the new toy!
Anybody here got a Enya Nova Go? Apologies if it’s been discussed already. I’ve gone past this thing multiple times during browsings, and it always piqued my interest a little. Short scale, and made of carbon fiber, it looks like a plastic toy. Today I watched a bunch of reviews, and they all raved, and had nothing bad to say about them. And the price is pretty reasonable. I think I want one.
That link doesn’t really discuss scale length (or I missed it) just overall length of 35", which is pretty meaningless. Reminds me of the Erlewine Guitars | Chiquita Travel Guitar Chiquita, which has been around for quite a while. ZZ Top used to tour with them.
I mean, $219. Knock yourself out. If it’s truly short scale, you can put insane gauge strings on it and it’ll growl.
Re the Enya Nova Go (in whichever model/style): I was checking those out online just now. Fascinating!
I wouldn’t hesitate one bit to give one of those a spin, even just to knock around with in the car or something.
But, alas, I got bitten by the lure of a sub-$300 deal on this Squier Classic Vibe Custom '70s Tele.
Well, it appears to have split tuners, so maybe that makes up for the potential hassle of the uncompensated three-barrel chrome saddles…but also a humbucker in neck position, which is what I want.
I think the solution is just to leave the factory installed 0.09s on this one, leave it in standard tuning, then swap the strings on the Squier Sonic to 0.012 flatwounds and keep it in Open G.
Or vice versa! Who knows!
Fairly sure the intonation, even with light strings, on this three-barrel system (but with a string-through design, as opposed to the top-loader six-saddle bridge on the Squier Sonic butterscotch blackguard), is good enough for leaving as regular rock-and-roll playing (or, in my case, “playing”).
A bit concerned about the smaller neck size (from what I hear), as well as the usual über-thick poly finish, and not in need (actually, the opposite…don’t want) of the four-pot level of control over the pups.
But, it was cheap enough and I had about two hundy in credits from That Place from some returns I made recently.
We’ll see early next week how it shakes out.
Personally, I think it’s kind of an ugly guitar, but looks aren’t everything and it might keep me from endlessly and fruitlessly fiddling with one solid body guitar which I’m making do everything I want at once (mostly endless retuning to different tunings, and never happy with the lighter gauge of strings except for some things).
What is it with you and strings? Do you intend to hand them to your grandkids or something? Throw some 10s or 11s on that puppy.
It is a weird setup to have three chrome barrels, the usual thing is 3 brass barrels for tone.
Also that’s not a strictly speaking a “humbucker”. It’s a Fender “wide range” pickup, which you may or may not enjoy. I haven’t had the pleasure.
I think it’s a pretty guitar, despite that jarring 4-knob setup. Never cared for that style of knob, but I can’t think of a better looking set.
Yeah! To properly bang on a Tele, you need to get some metal moving!
So as this Christmas/Birthday season of me buying my own gifts goes, I already got the Marr Jaguar, which I love love love. But I decided to shake things up a bit and have been deep in the throes of selling. Pedals: gotta go. Amps: go find yourselves a new home. There’s a new guy moving in.
New guy:
Ha, I hadn’t heard Fender made a Tone Master peddleboard. Sweet! I was just familiar with the emulated amps which have a great rep. Let us know how you like it!
It’s pretty outstanding. Out of the box, the tone compares favorably to the Helix, Neural, Fractal, Kemper alternatives. It has significantly more processing power though and the Fender team have been active on the usual messageboards talking about their plan for added functionality.
Where it really shines, IMO, is the fact that they’ve invested a huge amount of resources into the UX of the thing. I’ve had it two days and have been making stupidly complicated signal chains just for fun (it can independently route two different inputs through four external stereo loops (both analog and digital) to two stereo outputs that can each be split. And I’ve been able to play with all of these features without once referring to the manual.
The one downside I’ve discovered is that their online tone sharing library has a lot of the same issues as the other manufacturers. That is, they don’t impose much rigor on the naming and metadata of uploaded settings. I can easily see it becoming a jumble of misspelled artist names and song titles that becomes increasingly hard to search.
OK, 12s in flatwound, it is then, for both Squiers! 
If I wanted to change the strings, I would! But, I should at least give the lighter gauge a shot on one of the Squiers, since they are what I was playing as a young teenager, and they’re kind of fun to play around with.
There’s a good chance I may get further into chicken picking, or something where I’ll do a lot of very wide bending.
It is disappointing…I’ve seen some pretty nice compensated brass barrel pieces out there (“compensated” meaning they have a groove cut for each string, two per barrel)…but apparently that wasn’t in the design for this one.
Point taken! Well, anyway, a fatter pickup in the neck position than the classic Tele neck pup.
It’s cake to just swap the barrels if you want brass. 10 minutes, tops.
It’s unclear on Fender’s site, but this is apparently unpowered. How do you amp it, balanced into a mix? Line level into an amp set clean?