8 Strings and 36 Fanned fret...things

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I've few questions about the simulator. can it be used with any passive bridge pickup. I know the circuitry is active. when u want to play the bridge pickup (as the bridge pickup that is) can it be set to bypass the active circuitry.

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koshikas said:
I've few questions about the simulator. can it be used with any passive bridge pickup. I know the circuitry is active. when u want to play the bridge pickup (as the bridge pickup that is) can it be set to bypass the active circuitry.

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yes the ibanez that it originates off has dimarzio pups.

Her me Julie
 
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I lowered the action today and tuned it to: F#-B-E-A-D-G-B-E
feels much better, more fun to thump around with
 
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You need to trademark "Playable Placenta"! THat's awesome. This thing is cool looking, I bet it sounds great too.
 
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anyone using B-E-A-D-G-B-E-A tuning on a 8-string.

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daan said:
You need to trademark "Playable Placenta"! THat's awesome. This thing is cool looking, I bet it sounds great too.
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Go for it, and good luck with the P.R. problems that are likely to come out of the wood-work for ya
 
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koshikas said:
anyone using B-E-A-D-G-B-E-A tuning on a 8-string.

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I started with that, but it felt kinda goofy (unnatural to my hand-ear coordination), treyhaislip's comment about E being the Benchmark, is where I felt more comfortable when trying the F# & B; Having the rest stay standard.
 
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Vajazzled said:
I started with that, but it felt kinda goofy (unnatural to my hand-ear coordination), treyhaislip's comment about E being the Benchmark, is where I felt more comfortable when trying the F# & B; Having the rest stay standard.
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besides that, it must be a PIA to find a thin enough high-A string, let alone playing carefully not to break it. a friend of mine recently got hold of a 8-string, and when i asked him the same question, what he asked me back was what gauge of string high-A should be if he decides to try the B-E-A-D-G-B-E-A tuning. we did few lookups on string tension guides and it comes down to something so thin like a .007 or .006.

if it gets thinner, you ought to be winding pickups with those :kabong:
 
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koshikas said:
we did few lookups on string tension guides and it comes down to something so thin like a .007 or .006.

if it gets thinner, you ought to be winding pickups with those :kabong:
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.007 and .006 seems gratuitously thin
When I started the project I pre-ordered some D'Addario XL's
.010-.013-.017-.030-.042-.054-.064-.074

The .010 broke and I only had .009 on hand, That even feels way too thin
 
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