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Buzz Feiten

Post by donnyII » Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:19 am

Has anybody gotten one of these on a jazz/jag/mustang?
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Re: Buzz Feiten

Post by mjet » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:14 pm

On a similar note, I wonder if anyone has tried the Earvana nut...

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Re: Buzz Feiten

Post by Aug » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:04 pm

donnyII wrote: Has anybody gotten one of these on a jazz/jag/mustang?
Huh?  Are you referring to a Buzz Stop?

d00ds...check out this nut...

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Re: Buzz Feiten

Post by mjet » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:26 pm

Aug wrote:

Huh?  Are you referring to a Buzz Stop?
No, it's a compensated nut to help with tuning.

http://www.buzzfeiten.com/howitworks/howitworks.htm

The Earvana nut that I linked to is a cheap ($30 or so) compensated nut which aims to improve tuning in the same direction.
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Re: Buzz Feiten

Post by Aug » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:31 pm

ah...

na...I'm nowhere near that anal about intonation...(no offense)

If it'll intonate, great...if not, I just get it as close as humanly possible and fugidaboudit.

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Re: Buzz Feiten

Post by DarrelT » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:38 pm

I haven't tried this, but it looks interesting...
http://www.mimf.com/nutcomp/

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Post by TheMilford » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:43 pm

I may need to do this to the VI soon. Since Ultracrush play a lot of big chords all over the neck and sing with harmonies intonation becomes a serious issue.

I may just buy 2 tusk nuts and use one to make "shims".

My question is does this mess up upper position intonation?
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Post by flatfiver » Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:25 pm

TheMilford wrote: My question is does this mess up upper position intonation?
I'm by no means an expert on the subject, but I don't think it should effect upper position intonation.  The compensated nuts take into account that it's harder to press down a string closer to the nut, which is what throws off the calculations used to figure fret placement and all that.  Thus, if you're way up on the neck, that extra tension isn't an issue.  I guess it must balance itself out as you move further from the nut?  I dunno - I'm intrigued by this stuff but my brain stops working when they get into the math of it.
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Re: Buzz Feiten

Post by donnyII » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:28 pm

I just got the buzz feiten put on my jag. its INSANE.
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Post by mjet » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:40 am

donnyII wrote: I just got the buzz feiten put on my jag. its INSANE.
Details, photos - what'cha waiting for?
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Post by mynameisjonas » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:06 am

donnyII, how do you go about it when you tune the guitar? i heard you can´t use a regular pedal tuner.. ???

i used to have lot´s of intonation problems on one of my guitars, especially with the relation betwen the G and B strings, but then i lowered the nut as much as i could without getting string buzz, and now it intonates very well.

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Re: Buzz Feiten

Post by mjet » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:11 am

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Re: Buzz Feiten

Post by mynameisjonas » Wed Oct 18, 2006 1:16 am

oh, sorry michael. guess i didn´t pay enough attention to your second post. :-[

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