What is Buzz Feiten Tuning system?
What is Buzz Feiten Tuning system?
The Buzz Feiten Tuning System™ is a tempered tuning formula, which uses a compensated nut and saddle to correct the inherent intonation problems of the Western tuning formula. The Buzz Feiten Tuning System™. is standard on all USA made Washburn guitars and basses and is featured on select imported models.
How old was Buzzy Feiten at Woodstock?
Buzzy Feiten was 21 when he played guitar with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band the last day of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The band came on at about 6 AM by the dawn’s early light for their 45 minutes set.
What is a compensated nut?
The Compensated Nut A compensated nut on your guitar or bass moves the ‘take-off’ point for the string back or forwards in an effort to improve overall tuning consistency. It’s essentially the same process as for the bridge.
How does Earvana nut work?
The EARVANA NUT will enable a guitar to sound any note in tune anywhere on the fingerboard; assuming the open strings are properly tuned. The EARVANA tuning system optimizes the guitars harmonicity at any position on the fingerboard, not just at the positions where chords are played to tune guitar.
How do compensated nuts work?
A compensated nut on your guitar or bass moves the ‘take-off’ point for the string back or forwards in an effort to improve overall tuning consistency. It’s essentially the same process as for the bridge. Each string is moved by the same amount but the instrument is intonated differently to ‘sweeten’ the tunings.
What is an Earvana nut?
What is compensated nut?
What is the purpose of the Buzz Feiten tuning system?
The Buzz Feiten Tuning System is intended primarily to result in more accurate tonality of notes played on the lowest three or four frets, which otherwise can sound out-of-tune compared to notes played on the rest of the neck.
Can a Feiten tuning system be used on an electric guitar?
A growing family of quality manufacturers and builders have implemented the Feiten System on new electric and acoustic guitars, basses and more – with a wide range of models and prices. Non-invasive, doesn’t change the way your guitar looks, plays, feels, or sounds. It really works. HERE’S WHAT YOU GET:
When did Washburn add Buzz Feiten to the N4?
In the mid-1990s, Washburn added the Buzz Feiten Tuning System as a standard feature of the N4. This purports to improve tuning accuracy of guitars over the fretboard. (A few slots of the guitar’s nut are moved fractionally toward the bridge, and the instrument is intonated accordingly).
When did Buzz Feiten release his first album?
Feiten’s debut album Full Moon was released by Warner Bros. in 1982 and was recorded with Ray Barretto, Randy Brecker, Robin Clark, Gene Dinwiddie, Dave Holland, Neil Larsen, Airto Moreira, Tasha Thomas, and Phillip Wilson.