Have any of you people installed the "Earvana" nut on your guitar?

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GONZO-X said:
i mean, jesus f. christ, it's a 9 year old thread!!!

and only robert wall and ekarges3 seems to have had any experience with it.
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:D

Damn...so for 9 years you were too chicken to pony up the $35 for one nut and give it a try for yourself? ;)

Like I said...I was originally interested in it and did some research, and even spoke to the inventor on the phone about it as I said.
When I asked him specifically if it would give me perfect tuning up/down the whole neck...he said NOT REALLY, but that it was primarily going to fix the issues in the first few frets for when you mix open and fretted notes.
He basically said the same thing...why not try one and see if it works for you. :)
They have the retro fit model that doesn't require any cutting of the fretboard...but IMO it looks like shit with the screws and all...so I didn't want to bother with it, and I wasn't looking to fix tuning issues in the first few frets for open/fretted playing.

The Buzz Feiten nut is a similar approach as the Earvana...thoguh I think the Earvana does it better since it not only moves the nut closer to the first fret, it also individually offsets the B, G strings (if I recall).
But the Buzz bridge intonation "formula" add some more refinement...and they also use a bone nut, where the Earvana is some synthetic/plastic type of material.
 
GONZO-X said:
the replies to this thread are mostly useless.

almost no one that replied, has actually used the product, and could't possibly know a thing about it.

i like hands on replies, those are the most helpful..

someone who has actually used it, and knows from first hand experience.

anyone?
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I've removed a bunch of them as well as the buzz feiten junk. After that I've put on a well cut standard nut and setup the guitar properly. Does that count?
 
i didn't revive the thread, ekarges3 did.

i was done with it 9 years ago!!!
LOL

No.......I fail to see how this device is an alternative for a good guitar setup?
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that's what i thought.
you have not actually ever used one, so you have no first hand knowledge of whether it works or not, therefore cannot really comment on it's actual usage.
i'm really interested in first hand knowledge. after this many years of it being on the market, i would suppose there are more folks with this actual working knowledge.
 
The basic reason it's junk is because no two setups are exactly the same. No two guitar players are exactly the same. Thats only the detail though. In reality it is attempting to compensate for something that is inherent in a fixed vibrating string. The trick is to spread the inaccuracies of equal temperament over the entire neck. You do that but setting the guitar up properly and then tuning it using a method that does just that. Check the sticky at the top of this board and try the tuning method as promoted by GAL. It really is the best way to go.

A little basic reading around tunings and temperamnets and it will become clear why these things are junk.
 
GONZO-X said:
i didn't revive the thread, ekarges3 did.

i was done with it 9 years ago!!!
LOL



that's what i thought.
you have not actually ever used one, so you have no first hand knowledge of whether it works or not, therefore cannot really comment on it's actual usage.
i'm really interested in first hand knowledge. after this many years of it being on the market, i would suppose there are more folks with this actual working knowledge.
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I have a lot of first hand knowledge and expertise on the subject in general. They are a waste of money.
 
GONZO-X said:
....i would suppose there are more folks with this actual working knowledge.
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Or not. ;)

I new about it way back too...and honestly, have never heard people remarking about the thing. If it was really THAT good...belive me, there WOULD be a lot of folks talking about it after all these years and there WOULD be guitar manufacturers licensing it on their own guitars, but I think only one manufacturer installed it on just one of their models. I can't recall which one, but it was one of the smaller "name" guitar manufacturers...it's probably somewhere on the Earvana website.

It just hasn't gotten much play after all these years of being on the market. Why not buy/try one...and you can give US your first-hand review? :)
 
well, i've played the true temperment neck, and it definitely was an improvement..
but odd.


i guess your right, i'll need to just get one, install it, and try it.

i'll get back to you on that....
 
GONZO-X said:
well, i've played the true temperment neck, and it definitely was an improvement..
but odd.


i guess your right, i'll need to just get one, install it, and try it.

i'll get back to you on that....
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There is no such thing as a true temperament. A temperament is true or "correct" if it matches the rest of the instruments that is is playing along side. In the case of solo playing if all intervals are perfect then you still have the issue of the Pythagorean comma to resolve. All temperaments are a compromise and none are better or worse than the other, they are simply different.
 
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