MRoyce wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 12:57 pm Also, Meshuggah with crazy frets:

You wouldn't want your major thirds and perfect fifths to beat unevenly and go way off as you modulate to far keys like C#-maj and G#-min.

A subgenre coined 'djent' because it's basically atonal yet those guys are worried about interval precision at super low notes..

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:12 am I think it's so funny that Abasi does a telecaster:

This looks massively cool.

Geiginni wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:23 pm

MRoyce wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 12:57 pm Also, Meshuggah with crazy frets:

You wouldn't want your major thirds and perfect fifths to beat unevenly and go way off as you modulate to far keys like C#-maj and G#-min.

Just looking at the frets on this thing gives me vertigo

This Eventide demo is a masterclass in fucked-up-looking basses

penningtron wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:41 pm A subgenre coined 'djent' because it's basically atonal yet those guys are worried about interval precision at super low notes..

As if beat frequencies at low notes below 1 Hz were very noticable. As I recall the "djent" moniker is an onomatopoeia of the palm-mute chugging of the style: "...dje, dje, dje, dje..."

If a guitarist is really good they should be able to use pressure and slight bending to ensure their intervals beat evenly, not unlike someone who plays an unfretted instrument.

I wonder if the maker offers different temperament options?
"I'd like a guitar in Werkmeister III, another in Valotti-Young 1799, and a Wendell Victorian"

Geiginni wrote:

penningtron wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:41 pm A subgenre coined 'djent' because it's basically atonal yet those guys are worried about interval precision at super low notes..

As I recall the "djent" moniker is an onomatopoeia of the palm-mute chugging of the style: "...dje, dje, dje, dje..."

Yep. 95% of this music is "junt junt junt" on a low fuckin' A string with metal zone distortion yet they have 9 strings and fanned frets..

Leeplusplus wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 4:22 pm

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:12 am I think it's so funny that Abasi does a telecaster:

This looks massively cool.

Does it? It's got some uncanny valley thing going for me where I'm kinda somewhere between "hm yeah ok" and completely revulsed.
It's almost exactly a perfect cross of a Tele and an Ovation Deacon/Breadwinner.

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Tue Jan 11, 2022 11:30 am Here's a nice model of minimalism for y'all:

I'm imagining someone shredding on this thing, and then they pause to adjust one of those graphic EQ sliders just the tiniest bit.

penningtron wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 3:33 pm

Geiginni wrote:

penningtron wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:41 pm A subgenre coined 'djent' because it's basically atonal yet those guys are worried about interval precision at super low notes..

As I recall the "djent" moniker is an onomatopoeia of the palm-mute chugging of the style: "...dje, dje, dje, dje..."

Yep. 95% of this music is "junt junt junt" on a low fuckin' A string with metal zone distortion yet they have 9 strings and fanned frets..

Exactly. I never see some crazy jazz guy or classical guitarist using one of these monstrosities - it's always some chug-a metal dude.

This guy somehow took one of the most challenging pieces ever written for the piano and made it work on six strings and 18 frets on an instrument that's basically unchanged in the last 250 years: