Comments on: Hear Kitty Roar

By: Lorinator

Lorinator — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:21:33 +0000

OK Chickadees, listen up. I got to play Janne’s TT guitar this weekend, and have to say that it impressed the socks off of me.

It felt perfectly normal to play, and I’m sure that the wiggly frets wouldn’t look freaky to you after you’d gotten used to playing it. No matter what chord you played, no matter where it was on the neck, it sounded BEAUTIFULLY in tune. You could play chords that combine open strings and high fretted notes, and it sounded fantastic. My guitars have never done that, even after being intonated by people who know their stuff. Bending felt just like normal, too.

I could never afford to replace the necks on all my guitars, but when I come into some extra cash I will definitely get at least one TT guitar for recording clean rhythms. I was THAT impressed. There’s nothing like cool stuff that WORKS.

By: JoeJoe

JoeJoe — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:32:47 +0000

*runs away with tail between legs*

Hehe

I don’t think anyone on this forum ever means offence, or intends to sound aggresive. I mean, everyone seems to be nice and friendly =).

I was simply voicing my opinion (which everyone has and is entitled to) on TT necks. =) no hard feelings yes?

I actually notice little diffrence on my guitar in the tunning issues, even moving the chords up the octave. I did however notice it more so on my older guitars. I think most guitar companies who are trying to achieve great quility do aim to try and bring the diffrence in tunning issues down as much as possible.

I think that is why there is such a jump in price from your mid range guitars, to your higher end guitars.

Unfortunatly for me, I could not try, or use a TT neck, mostly because I am dedicated set neck, and neck thru user myself. But I am very curious to hear your sound clips.

By: Kristof

Kristof — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:08:04 +0000

Thanks, Janne, that would be great!

By: Janne Stark

Janne Stark — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:05:27 +0000

Well, I don’t know if you have recorded in a studion (not offense, as I don’t know your background), but then you’d see the tricks you sometimes have to pull to get a ballad, chord driven song etc. to sound prefectly in pitch, especially when there’s a “naked” guitar. Take an open C, G, E and a D on your regular guitar. Do all those chords sound perfectly in tune? They don’t even with the Buzz Feiten system and a prefectly intonated guitar. Then move up to the 12-14 fret and take the same chords. Sound perfectly in tune? Didn’t think so. THAT’s what the TT neck does to your guitar/sound. I’ll take the time (as soon as I have it) and record some things with one intonated normal and one TT-neck guitar so you can hear the difference. I’ll give the guys a tip to put this up their site, too.

By: Kristof

Kristof — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:09:17 +0000

Janne, no problem. I’m only trying to understand the system, rather than refusing to accept … I know that equal tempering isn’t ideal …

Steve Vai and Jennifer are both Ibanez players

Also: there is still no-one that I’ve talked to that actually has a sound file that will convince me otherwise. Not even on the website of TT. Now, if the difference was that noteable, wouldn’t you have TelSell-like “before and after” ?

Also, if there is no “out of tune”, how can one be tuned better? Believe you me, if you have violin in a concerto that is 1Hz off, you’ll notice that something is out of tune…

To me, it’s an audible issue (har har) so only a high-quality sound file can convince me … There is no need for a hands-on experience to convince me …

By: Stephen H

Stephen H — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:06:45 +0000

FIGHT ! ! !

By: Janne Stark

Janne Stark — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:52:26 +0000

Sorry if also I sounded a bit aggressive here, but I just have a slight problem with strong opinions from people who haven’t even tried it themselves.
I personally feel it’s better to have an open mind and a closed mouth (or at least a more humble attitude) until you have first hand experience yourself.

By: Janne Stark

Janne Stark — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:35:12 +0000

JoeJoe: “Also bare in mind that no recordings of guitar, on basically any album, or record, will have been recorded with a TT. So using a TT to play those songs will actually result in playing them out of tune, even if only slighly.”

Erhh… Nooo, it will not result in playing out of tune. I mean we are talking micro-differences here. I used the guitar when playing in the Sweden Rock All Star Band with Ryan Roxie and Oscar Dronjac, who both have “regular” necks. There was no sense of “out of tune” whatsoever. My guitar only sounded better in tune internally. Meaning you could strike a G, D and E and the chords ALL sounded in perfect tuning, which is impossible with a “normal” neck, and even with Buzz Feiten.

I have recorded the forthcoming TEENAGE RAMPAGE- and OVERDRIVE albums with my TT. You can even hear a sample on http://www.myspace.com/trofficial

Furthermore it feels NO different than playing with a normal neck, bending is exactly the same etc etc.

By: Janne Stark

Janne Stark — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:26:52 +0000

Of course it should be “Steve Vai has ordered one”. So has Jennifer Batten. Doug Aldrich tried mine and was blown away. I received one of the first ones in December 2006.

By: Janne Stark

Janne Stark — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:24:56 +0000

Well, Kristof, just let me say one thing - Don’t knock it ’till you’ve tried it. I don’t know how you can just blurt out that it doesn’t work if you haven’t tried it. Slight prejudice huh?

It does work. You’re welcome to try mine whenever you’re in the neightbourhood.

Further more - Steve Vai har ordered one. Nuff said.