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A) vary amount of quack in Pos 2 and 4
Fade in neck with bridge to give Tele tones.
Alright. I’ll be doubly disagreeable. If I use something for more than 5 minutes then it’s no longer a gimmick. Innovations that I like:
- tapped single coils
- 4 and 5 way switching on a Telecaster
- rounded neck joints
- strap locks
- forearm and belly contours
- wedge shaped bodies, thin at the top and thick at the control cavity
- wood stain and oil finishes
- clip-on tuners
- hardened frets. I’ll go EVO Gold rather than stainless.
- zero frets. Do these really count as an innovation?
- headless guitars, for no other reason than they help reduce weight.
The DIY tremolo arms that I make for all my Fender offsets. They sit further away from the guitar body, are angled differently and are shorter, which puts my right hand where my playing position is.
I said maybe.....
My music:- https://soundcloud.com/hubobulous
Tremol-no. Easy to fit, even easier to use.
Hipshot Trem-Setter. An absolute pain in the bum to fit and set up, but once done it's totally reliable and works flawlessly.
Dunlop 'Ergo' straplocks. Far better than any metal straplock system or even Grolsch washers.
TC Polytune app for iPhone. Quite possibly the best £2.99 I've ever spent on anything musical. It paid for itself several times over the very first time I used it, to set up a Floyd Rose - it probably halved the time involved.
And for the repairers - the Hosco Guitar Cube. Such a brilliant little tool, a real time and hassle saver if you ever have to tighten a pot nut when the knob won't come off.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I could never quite work out how it created the effect it did. I bet there's a few of those languishing in long-lost corners of dusty drawers.
I almost never use the series, but I do use the tone cut -- instant jazz mode -- fairly often. I could easily replace it with a 3 way and a switch, I guess.
https://www.guitaranswerguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/nsMicroInPlace1.jpg
(Obviously not my guitar in the picture)
Also the following:
Series/ parallel switches
Phase switches
Coil Tap switches
Neck-in switch for Strat
although not necessarily on the same guitar. All valuable tone mods.
Cork plectrums on acoustic (are they for Ukes)?? Nice even sound when recording, if a little cumbersome