Evertune Bridge...is it even worth it?
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2019
- I decided to make a quick video to share my thoughts on the Evertune Bridge System.
P.s. Forgot to record the Mic audio so its just camera audio for the commentary, I offer a giant canadian "sorey bahd" as an apology.
Guitar is an LTD EC-1000
Intro Song by Me
"Empty Space" by The Story So Far is played as part of the guitar demonstration. 
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Hello from a touring guitar tech and thanks for the nice vid!
Evertune and that particular guitar (I own one too, truss rod works like a charm and so does Evertune) is actually the most easy bridge to setup (with those adjustments available). That' said because:
1. You only need one tool. (2,5mm Allen key. Normally you'd need small Allen for action and Philips for intonation)
2. One screw for action. (normal saddle has 2 screws)
3. Tuning is way more stabile than in a normal guitar (just did some work on a US built Tele with .9 strings. Just tuning up and the meter shows +-1 cent with open string. With Evertune I can get the meter going at 0.0-0.3 cents with open strings. I'm using Peterson tuners) So it's easier to compare open vs 12th fret when the string's pitch isn't jumping around.
4. You can tune and intonate in high precision. String don't wobble around so it's super easy to see where you are.
If somebody is new on setting up guitar, everything is hard. (There's still the ongoing "never touch the truss rod, search a qualified technician, ooooh you will destroy the neck" -myth floating around.)
But this thing is really not hard at all if you're familiar with setting up an electric guitar. I work with an array of Gibson Custom Shop 355 guitars for one of my clients, and those are pain in the ass compared to my Evertuned ESP's. (but the ET would not look good on those. But he has me to tune those bad boys for every song so I'm the evertune there. :D)
The learning curve comes in play when you want to set up intonation to the bendstop. If you are in a middle of zone 2, the intonation and action adjustment is easy. You don't have to touch the tuning pegs at all because string 's tuning wont be much affected while you adjust the saddle's position or height. Near the bendstop it's a different case. You need to find your sweet spot for bending with the peg after every adjustment on the action or intonation so you can adjust your intonation to that spot. (my sweet spot is about 1/4 turn down from the bandstop point so I still get my slight vibratos and bends) That being said, Evertune might be a bit confusing at first if you're not familiar with the system. And I don't mean YOU with this, just in general. You obviously know what you're doing.
I have a channel where I'm posting more Evertune setup stuff, here's the link if you want to check that out: ruclips.net/channel/UCpe6_HdfUgeJIBbompbILvQ
I will be doing more Evertune videos soon, so feel free to subscribe if you wish to see what I'm cooking. :)
Tomppa RMP it was definitely the evertune learning curve that got me a bit, I do agree that the fixed tuning helps incredibly with intonation especially with new strings stretching out, great information dude, you got it for a steal of a price!
Thank you for your informative video. After much thought and your tips I've bought Solar A1.6 ETC with evertune bridge :)
Awesome!! I hope it works out well for you :)
That’s a nice looking guitar dude. Suits your physical appearance too
Great ideas about the setup process. Great video!
Thanks for your honest thoughts and evaluation.
Just bought my first Evertune guitar, it arrives Thursday. It’s a high end JBM series Ibanez and is only partially used. It’s not usually a guitar that comes with the Evertune, the previous owner sent it in to get installed. Super stoked. I haven’t played one yet but I’ve been researching it non stop for months and just had to have one.
Follow up?
RIP
Great vid! Nice tone too!!!
Killer! Did you get pro plek or tusq nut or anything else added?
That’s amazing. 👍😁👍
I'm familiar with the Floyd Rose FRX... but this is just a Holy Grail! I totally agree, string height has to be done first.
thumbs up for empty space!!
thanks for the video man. whats the amp you are using in this video? great tone :)
I believe I was just using pro tools' eleven rack plugin!
Beautiful guitar! I have 2 with evertune.
Thank you! That's awesome :)
Simon Austin I always loved hardtail bridges over tremolos, but then finding the evertune I feel right at home. I do have 6 hardtails still, but it is so easy to pick the evertune one up and just play.
Would you get an evertune installed on your les paul? Tone of a les paul, without any tuning worries ever again.
would love to!!
You shouldn't need to do anything with a string change if it was in tune before you took the old strings off. String height shouldn't effect intonation much unless you have some crazy high action. adjusting the string length effects intonation, not so much height.
...how is the sustain on it?
Not noticeably different than a typical bridge system
@@simonaustin1136 well, I heard they have less sustain? Either it's less more or similar? What's your take? Did you appear to lose some sustain?
@@realtruenorth great question, I honestly didn't notice any difference in sustain, it's a very well designed system and in my experience the only audible effect it has on your sound is that your guitar's perfectly in tune
@@simonaustin1136 ok thanks
I am thinking about buying an evertune system (for Gibson style guitars), to put it in my Viper ESP. It is really not that expensive and you can make a shitty guitar stay in tune and have it sing for once :D The cost of a new Evertune is around 250-300$, installation may vary - but it is worth EVERY dime!
With installation included you'd be looking to spend $500-600 total, so just make sure you like the guitar first! All the best
@@simonaustin1136 Where I live, it is much less - the installation of it. 100 euros, maybe 150.
Yeah, I am looking forward to see how will the beast chug :)
Hey ik this video is a year old but something you can do is make a semi custom guitar on balaguerguitars.com and can make the bridge an evertune. It'll be close to 2k us dollars but I'd say for the fact of having a guitar built to your liking with a D shape or C shape neck isnt that bad of a price
That's a good idea, evertune has expanded their lineup over the last year so that's not so much of an issue, and ironically I just purchased a PRS SE evertune that should arrive any day now, so will do a demo of that! There's definitely merit in having a custom guitar made to your specifications, but for Canadians like myself that financially isn't option (with currency conversion, shipping, tax and duties it usually comes to DOUBLE what the USD amount is)
if you are recording or playing live in 1 tuning yes it is more than worth
string height does not change intonation. You'll have to retune but you shouldn't have to reintonate.
Why set up mic next to you if you don't use it
I forgot to hit record for the mic so had to use the camera audio, sorry!
@@simonaustin1136 oh that happens!
I can’t get over how fucking beautiful your eyes are! 😂
Ok, lol...... who doesnt respond to a comment like this?!!
😂 someone with a wife or gf
Unrelated to the video topic, but solid guitar tone!
Thank you man!
that exactly happened to me. get your string height first
As much as I appreciate getting to see this guitar and the evertune system, it sounds like to me you should be just bought a Gibson since those aren't "metalcore" :).
I already had 2 Gibson's and an epiphone around this time actually, just was a fanatic about the evertune system so I needed to get one
Difference is, Gibsons can't stay in tune.
But you cant bend your strings??? Whats the point?
It depends how you set the everyone system. I have it set to not bend because I play rhythm, and strum quite hard. However if you play lead guitar you can set it to allow bends to a certain degree, while still returning back to pitch
Shouldn't a $1,000 guitar, especially w a new Evertune bridge, be properly intonated and setup to standard tuning? At least to .09s or whatever they ship with? If you prefer 10s or whatever, a proper guitar shop should set it up for you IMO. Maybe I'm old fashioned but a 1000 dollars used to mean a HSC w new guitars 90% of the time, now you're lucky if you get a gig bag? Finally, if I want to drop the low E only to D on an Evertune, is it a hassle or relatively simple?
I just bought the same guitar. And thanks for the information. However...... Why in the fuck did you do that to your ears??? Your good looking young man!! Just stop it now before it's gone way to far.
Sounds like a massive pain in the arse to me
Ralphington84 setup is more work, but its quite the opposite afterwards, so rewarding to pickup a guitar after not playing it for days or a week and it's perfectly in tune. You tune it once when you string it up and that's it
Huge pain to record an entire album never having to stop to tune your guitar, and being able to go right on stage from show to show and never pause the set to retune. Why would anyone ever want to avoid those hassles?
Much The Same best use by far, otherwise time spent guitar tracking is like 50% tuning
@@Muchthesame As if tuning is such a long and tedious process. I mean, if you have a quality guitar, with a stable neck and have it set up right, how long do you really have to spend tuning? A few seconds after a few takes, that's all. Or maybe once halfway in a live set of an hour. I'm not so sure about this system.
@@genustinca5565 I can totally understand your skepticism, especially if you've never played an Evertuned guitar before. The engineer for our last album (who is frankly a better guitarist and musician than any of us) was skeptical too. By the end of the first day of tracking he was online looking for Evertune guitars and bought one for the studio shortly after we finished the album. Sometimes you just have to experience something to really understand its value, but I'm happy to run down a few major benefits.
In regards to tuning during tracking, there are a couple of issues. First, yeah, you do have to retune a guitar after every few takes, as you say. Yes, our guitars are high quality. We formerly played ESP Standard and PRS guitars. The studio had everything from Les Paul Customs to boutique custom guitars available. We used our Evertune E-II and LTDs instead because it was a no-brainer. When you are tracking guitars for 8-12 hours a day for many days in a row, tuning every few takes is tedious. You're feeling creative, really in the groove.. WAIT you've got a flat note there, stop everything and retune. Again and again and again. It gets old. Not having to even think about that really made the whole experience of recording guitar a lot more fun.
But honestly, that's not even the best part. Evertuned guitars SOUND more in tune than a standard guitar, and their intonation is far better all the way up the neck. Even when you're "in tune," you'll often find that not everything sounds quite right on the higher frets, especially octaves. If you have a high octave run, which are common in my style of music, you'll often have to tune the guitar for every couple of notes because the low and high note warble and don't match themselves or the rhythm tracks. And yes, I'm talking about a guitar with a good setup. But with my Evertune guitars, we didn't have to do this a single time. Every note was in tune all the time. Again, our engineer could not believe it.
They also sound better just when playing them, partly because of this intonation, but partly because you can actually tune them more accurately than a regular guitar. You know how when you pluck a string and watch it on the tuner, the note moves around a bit? It's always sharp when you first pluck it and then it settles in. So... do you tune to the rung note or the plucked note? Probably the rung note, but you're usually strumming more than you're ringing, so this is not really that accurate. Whichever you do, something will be a little off. But with Evertune, the bridge compensates for that tension difference between a newly strummed note and a rung note, no matter how hard you hit the strings. It also means the tuner doesn't show you a note moving up and down while you're trying to tune it. You just turn it and lock it in right at the note, and there it stays for every note you play. Combine this with better intonation and your guitar now sounds like a studio recording even when you're just jamming in your basement! Again, this is something you have to hear to believe. It's like putting on prescription glasses for the first time in your life. Everything is just better and you didn't even know there was anything wrong before.
Let's talk string changes. If you're recording for more than a couple days in the studio you're gonna want fresh strings so your guitar can sound its best. Now, not only is the guitar almost perfectly in tune when you restring it before you even tune it up (as long as you use the same gauge strings), but you don't have to stretch the strings yourself at all when you put them on. The bridge compensates for the stretching over time and keeps the guitar in tune. That means you have the freshest possible strings for the brightest sound.
And no discussion of Evertune would be complete without talking about a live show. I don't even bring a tuner on stage with me anymore, it's unnecessary. I can play a whole set with complete confidence that I'm never going out of tune. Sometimes it sucks to be on a stage where the sound isn't great (no matter how much time you spend soundchecking to get it right). Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm hearing an out of tune guitar or not, so it takes me out of the moment and I have to try to focus on both my tuning and my playing mid-song. But I don't do that anymore. I don't hear tuning problems because there aren't any. At worst, one of us is messing up... but that's not something you have to check the tuner about!
I won't play an electric guitar that doesn't have Evertune anymore. I sold all my electrics and only own two ET guitars now. If you can get your hands on one at a shop or from a musician who knows how to set them up properly (spoiler: Guitar Center and Sam Ash don't), you'll be converted. It's not that they're hard to set up, they're just different so most guitar shop guys don't even try, and customers will mess them up anyway. That's why I make sure to let people play my guitars whenever possible, because I want them to experience the real thing.
Hope that helps!
i would punch the guy in the nose who ever invented this bridge-i believed in the hype worst performance from my fingers thats where the tone comes from
You can still play bends on evertune guitars, you can still keep your performance intact, just when you finish your bend it returns to perfect pitch all the time, it's not hype, it's a genuinely useful tool that producers across the world are adopting to save countless hours spent in the studio just tuning guitars