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GMC Forum _ GEAR & PRODUCTION _ Earvana- Anyone Use It?

Posted by: Kizaze44 Jan 9 2009, 06:09 PM

I came across this website. Does anyone use "Earvana"? I'm curious if it any good, because it's pretty cheap, and I notice some great players using it.

http://www.earvana.com/index.html

Posted by: ztevie Jan 9 2009, 06:11 PM

Never used it myself, but people I know have, and they say it's great. THe guitar actually intonate much better, which is the point...

Posted by: Kizaze44 Jan 9 2009, 07:22 PM

Why aren't all guitars built with this?

Posted by: ztevie Jan 9 2009, 07:52 PM

Well, guitarists are pretty "old -fashioned" and in many ways we don't accept new things so easily..
Most of us want our guitars the "old fashioned way", and believe the best guitars was built decades ago, with the old nuts. Manufacturers are afraid they will lose possible customers to put them on their guitars? Maybe the look of Earvana just doesn't do it for some people? And since most guitarists are guys, we don't want someone to mess with our "nuts"!

I'm not very old-fashioned though.. I have plans to build a new guitar with parts from Warmoth, and I will definitely go with the Earvana on that one. My wife also say my nuts start to look old, so a change is welcome...

Posted by: Kizaze44 Jan 9 2009, 07:54 PM

nice I'm going to try it out

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Jan 9 2009, 11:04 PM

Didn't know about this product , but it seems interesting! Wonder if it works as advertised ??

Posted by: 29a Jan 9 2009, 11:51 PM

I'd be happy if I could hear a pitch difference of 1-2 cent. But after reading the http://www.earvana.com/technology2.htm here and looking at the pictures I think I understand their system, and it's clever!

Bogdan, the numbers look realistic to me. I'm just not sure how much difference it really makes sound wise.

Kizaze44, My guess is that it just doesn't make that much of a difference in real life. It would be interesting to ask the audience of a concert if they've heard a difference.

- Jonas

Posted by: audiopaal Jan 9 2009, 11:57 PM

Looks promising, thanks for sharing

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Jan 10 2009, 12:01 AM

I've seen it before, if I had the money and time, I would try it - why not

Posted by: ztevie Jan 10 2009, 12:10 AM

Well, I guess a audience wouldn't hear a difference. But fact is you can never tune a guitar and have it in pitch at open strings and fretted strings together. People I know who tried it say it may not be a big difference, but you have a feeling the chords ring cleaner. Especially chords you take near the nut when you use both open and fretted strings...
I assume this is one of those things you don't miss, until you've tried it. I think if you put it on one guitar you will go crazy with the other guitars, feeling they are slightly out of tune? So it's best never to try one...

For even more perfect pitch, check this out: http://www.truetemperament.com/site/index.php
Neck looks pretty insane: http://www.truetemperament.com/site/images/media/anders_m.mov
And also you have this: http://www.buzzfeiten.com/howitworks/howitworks.htm

Posted by: Ramiro Delforte Jan 10 2009, 03:09 AM

Looks pretty cool!
I haven't heard of this but if it's true would be nice to try it.