well since my other thread got fucked (EVH D-tuna)

Dawdy · Post by **Dawdy** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:29 pm

who's gonna tell me about this thing, is it any good? reliable? for those that dont know (but im sure you all do), it hooks into your floyd rose and lets you switch from E to drop D on the low E string and back, by a flick of the switch

Aeon · Post by **Aeon** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:31 pm

PhilCore is gonna tunamelt this thread.

Firestorm · Post by **Firestorm** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:32 pm

get me a picture/link of it my good friend, and Ill give my opinion

Aeon · Post by **Aeon** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:35 pm

Firestorm wrote:get me a picture/link of it my good friend, and Ill give my opinion

Firestorm · Post by **Firestorm** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:37 pm

Aeon wrote:
Firestorm wrote:get me a picture/link of it my good friend, and Ill give my opinion

Ill have to get one of these.

Firestorm · Post by **Firestorm** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:41 pm

http://www.vanhalenstore.com/shop/merch ... de=m-other

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:10 pm

ive used it, its good for what it says it does, if you gotta switch back and forth a lot it is a hell of a lot quicker than retuning or swapping axes.

Hunter/Killer · Post by **Hunter/Killer** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:40 pm

hipshot has the same thing.

Dawdy · Post by **Dawdy** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:53 pm

Wayne wrote:hipshot has the same thing.

what is it called?

Hunter/Killer · Post by **Hunter/Killer** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:15 pm

Dawdy wrote:
Wayne wrote:hipshot has the same thing.
what is it called?

im looking around and i can't find it, maybe they discontinued it.
i think it was called tripshot, they had ads in guitar mags

Hunter/Killer · Post by **Hunter/Killer** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:23 pm

they changed the name of the tuner. you flip the switch and it drops to a d.

BaptizedBurning · Post by **BaptizedBurning** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:38 pm

seems pretty cool, but it only takes 10 seconds to tune back and forth from standard to drop, doing it by ear.

Dawdy · Post by **Dawdy** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:44 pm

Wayne wrote:

they changed the name of the tuner. you flip the switch and it drops to a d.

not with a doubling locking trem!
cool tuner though

Hunter/Killer · Post by **Hunter/Killer** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:52 pm

too much money to buy the whole trem. fuck the trem

Dawdy · Post by **Dawdy** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:56 pm

i have a floyd rose already!

im saying to use that you have to loosen the locking nut which defeats the purpose

i'll probably end up getting the d-tuna

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:42 am

Dawdy wrote:i have a floyd rose already!

im saying to use that you have to loosen the locking nut which defeats the purpose

i'll probably end up getting the d-tuna

buy another guitar.

ivanlongknob · Post by **ivanlongknob** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:25 am

i got one a few years ago for my culprit, it didnt fit and i havnt botherd making it fit. i think i might put it on one day though

Dawdy · Post by **Dawdy** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 8:26 am

i have 2

The Fear · Post by **The Fear** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:00 pm

The other thread was better.

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:14 pm

get a Steinberger Trans-trem and drop the whole thing down a half or full step.

Eddie V used one on a few albums, Summer Nights is impossible to cover without one.

http://www.vintagekramer.com/5150f.htm

Wrona · Post by **Wrona** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:16 pm

PABassPlayer wrote:get a Steinberger Trans-trem and drop the whole thing down a half or full step.

Eddie V used one on a few albums, Summer Nights is impossible to cover without one.

Impossible... How so?

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:20 pm

TK wrote:
PABassPlayer wrote:get a Steinberger Trans-trem and drop the whole thing down a half or full step.

Eddie V used one on a few albums, Summer Nights is impossible to cover without one.
Impossible... How so?

he switches from standard tuning to flat tuning about 10 times in the song.
you could do it with 2 guitarists, but they better be right on the money in the changes. He did it live with that particular guitar. My guiatrist owned one (works at a music store) and bought it for 1200.00, he flipped it for 1700.00 and thought he made out like a bandit. They are rare now and hard to find for less than 5-6000.00.

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:25 pm

TK wrote:
PABassPlayer wrote:get a Steinberger Trans-trem and drop the whole thing down a half or full step.

Eddie V used one on a few albums, Summer Nights is impossible to cover without one.
Impossible... How so?

For a bit of other info, this is at the top of most tabs you find for the song.

I saw a request for this song a while ago. I wasn't gonna do it
'cause I thought it was a completely impractical song to wanna know how to
play (kinda like NIN's "Closer" or something like that) for the simple fact
that without a very SPECIFIC kind of guitar, the song is unplayable!
Eddie uses a Steinberger on this one. For those of you that don't know,
Steinbergers are those $1900 suckers that look like little boxes with a
guitar neck comin' out of them. Steinberger also is the only company
(that I know of) that has what's called a Trans-Trem vibrato system. This
allows the guitarist to pull up or push down on the trem bar and lock it
into place so that the pitch of the strings remain in tune, but are
TRANSposed to a different tuning. A wonderful invention if you ask me.
No more tuning down 1/2 step or anything like that. This system ALSO
does other cool stuff: By magic, it keeps all of the strings IN TUNE when
you pull up or push down on the bar. Like, you could strum an A chord
and pull up on the bar and make it sound like a C chord. For an example
of this gadget at work, try listening to "Get Up" from Van Halen 5150.
Eddie isn't sliding his fingers, he's pulling up on the fuckin' bar! And
then for the solo, he locks it into place a few half-steps up!
Anyway, the only reason I decided to tab this song is 'cause I figured if
you had a capo that was easily and quickly removed, you COULD concievably
play this song accurately. So whip out them capos kiddies, and put 'em
across the 3rd fret...

Wrona · Post by **Wrona** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:28 pm

Wow. I'd sometime like to play that song, as i'm a big Van Halen fan and all... But i don't plan on paying a grand for a Steinberger any time soon.

Wrona · Post by **Wrona** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:30 pm

Steinbergers look like they do have some cool benefits though.
It would be nice to have one for traveling, maybe bring along a korg pandora or something to amplify it with.

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:32 pm

TK wrote: Wow. I'd sometime like to play that song, as i'm a big Van Halen fan and all... But i don't plan on paying a grand for a Steinberger any time soon.

since they stopped making them, if you find one for a grand ....BUY IT!!!!

you can flip it for about 5 times that!

Wrona · Post by **Wrona** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:34 pm

PABassPlayer wrote:
TK wrote: Wow. I'd sometime like to play that song, as i'm a big Van Halen fan and all... But i don't plan on paying a grand for a Steinberger any time soon.
since they stopped making them, if you find one for a grand ....BUY IT!!!!

you can flip it for about 5 times that!

They still make the "Steinberger" brand... Which is what i am talking about.

Are you referring to older models?

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:35 pm

here's one going for around 1000.00

http://cgi.ebay.com/Steinberger-GM7TA-F ... dZViewItem

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:38 pm

TK wrote:
PABassPlayer wrote:
TK wrote: Wow. I'd sometime like to play that song, as i'm a big Van Halen fan and all... But i don't plan on paying a grand for a Steinberger any time soon.
since they stopped making them, if you find one for a grand ....BUY IT!!!!

you can flip it for about 5 times that!
They still make the "Steinberger" brand... Which is what i am talking about.

Are you referring to older models?

talking about one with a trans-trem bridge like the one in the pic above

Wrona · Post by **Wrona** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:39 pm

Yup, they still make that model.

This link is for Stienbergers thru Musicyo.com-
http://www.musicyo.com/brandland.asp?dept_id=3

According to Ed Roman, the newer Steinbergers are crap or along the lines of that.

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:43 pm

TK wrote:Yup, they still make that model.

This link is for Stienbergers thru Musicyo.com-
http://www.musicyo.com/brandland.asp?dept_id=3

According to Ed Roman, the newer Steinbergers are crap or along the lines of that.

I see, they have re-released the trans-trem.
I was not aware of that. For years they were very hard to find.
They really fucked up the collectors market! lol

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:46 pm

TK wrote:Yup, they still make that model.

This link is for Stienbergers thru Musicyo.com-
http://www.musicyo.com/brandland.asp?dept_id=3

According to Ed Roman, the newer Steinbergers are crap or along the lines of that.

note: the trem system alone is $700.00

http://www.musicyo.com/product_specs.asp?pf_id=542

Wrona · Post by **Wrona** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 6:48 am

That makes no sense whatsoever.

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:26 am

TK wrote:That makes no sense whatsoever.

what part?