r00key

Cool pete! Sounds great! BTW. I just read on the sustainiac site that they'll start making 7 string sustainiacs soon! This is great news. If one of my 7 stringer's sustainer breaks I won't have to search for a replacement. Sustainiac also has bass sustainers. Which is a great option but seeing as my bass only cost €100 and the bass sustainiac costs over $200... i dunno, i'd rather have a DIY one BTW. Does anyone here have experience with both Fernandes sustainers and Sustainiacs? If so, how do they compare?

Hey people. It's been about a year since I last posted here I think. I'd like to know how progress is and what quality the DIY sustainers are at. Any video/audio samples? In the mean time I managed to get my hands on a 7 string fernandes sustainer and I had it built into my customised LTD SC-207: MY NEW GUITAR Now I'd like a cheap sustainer for my cheap Bass and so I returned to this place

hey psw... fast reply! I understand that personal problems go before some dutch guy who pretends he can play guitar Our bass player doesn't use a sustainer but he would. Unfortunately sustainiac doesn't make 6 string bass sustainers (or 7 string guitar sustainers for that matter). Fernandes made a 4 string bass sustainer prototype for Peter Steele (of Type O Negative) and they used to make 7 string guitar sustainers, but they discontinued those. I even tried offering both companies a wad of cash but they both refused to make me one. Good thing is that once I find someone, they can do all kinds of measurements on my Revolver Pro 7 (a guitar that's factory equipped with a 7 string sustainer) as long as it doesn't involve actually taking the sustainer apart (because it's irreplaceable at the moment). Plus I know how the factory made sustainers are supposed to work. (as I said before, the difficulty to sustain in harmonic mode on the higher frets of the E string is NORMAL on the Fernandes sustainer. I read you kinda solved this problem, so you're actually ahead of Fernandes!)

Hi... I'm still following the developments... unfortunately i understand less and less of all this technical jargon (especially since my English is very good but not my primary language). I might have found someone interested in experimenting with the sustainer thingy... I just need a sustainer wide enough to fit a 7 string guitar... *sigh* Damn fernandes for making me addicted to 7 string sustainer guitars and then discontinuing them...

Still watching the thread...

Indeed, this is the way fernandes sustainers work aswell.. the battery drains (and the power led is on) even with the sustainer off. There's still a slight pop, but i imagine it would be worste if the battery were to kick in when the sustainer is activated. When we take a break I always make sure I unplug the jack to save on batteries. Peter, If you can make me that 7 string sustainer I'll go and order the new guitar. I'll test yours and compare it to the fernandes one. Then I'll descide which to put in the new guitar and which goes into my backup guitar. I have no haste though, take your time.

Hello sustainiacs (heh, notice the pun here).. erhemmm... I have posted here before, but that was a long time ago. Let me reïntroduce myself: I'm a guitarist from the netherlands. I play a fernandes revolver pro 7 (7 string sustainer model). My next guitar is also going to be a 7 string guitar, and I want a sustainer in it. Problem is: Fernandes has discontinued the 7 string sustainer Does anyone here want to build a 7 string driver for me? I could get the electronics from the 6 string sustainer kit Fernandes sells... If you can make me a whole sustainer (driver + electronics) that would be great but not absolutely nessecary. you can email me at: r00key@home.nl PS: The *pop* sound when you turn the sustainer on or off is also there in the Fernandes version. I don't mind it since I usually leave the sustainer on. PS2: I'm willing to pay a lot of money!

I wish i had the knowhow to do this stuff but this is way over my head... anyways, i'm still looking for a working sustainer for in my next guitar...

I'm intrigued by the idea of a hex pickup and driver My guitar tech knows someone that took the fernandes sustainer and replaced the driver with a EMG pickup because when the sustainer driver is in "off" position it will function as a normal pickup but it has a slight hiss in the sound. The guy didn't want this hiss so he replaced the driver with an EMG pickup and now the EMG pickup functions as a sustainer driver and when it's in "off" position it sounds as a regular EMG pickup. Now I don't know if this guy did any modifications on the EMG pickup itsself and we're trying to find out if he did and how... If my guitar tech succeeds in replicating this EMG/Fernandes sustainer I could easily use a 7 string EMG pickup to make a 7 string sustainer Or with a bit of luck even a 6 string bass sustainer! (hell i'd have to pay for both the sustainer kit and the EMG pickup but it's well worth the money)

Hey Pete, I'm actually playing a Fernandes Revolver Pro 7, which already has a sustainer. I'm just kind of planning on my next guitar which will need a custom 7 string sustainer simply because i don't really want to take the sustainer out of my fernandes. (my next guitar will probably be a custom built one because i want all kinds of abnormal features like 7 strings, a longscale neck, a U-bar tremolo and ofcourse the almighty sustainer) Anyways. My band plays gothic doom... Doom meaning we have reeaaalllyy slow parts .. (60 bpm and less) and the sustainer keeps the chords from dying out. Plus i use it a lot for high squeeling feedback which sounds really cool before you do a pickslide. And i use the sustainer as a handy tool aswell, for when i'm grabbing my mic and singing with my hand on the mic or having a drink while playing riffs with only my left hand (people ask me how the hell i do that, you know the secret ) Our bassplayer has a 6 string bassguitar which doesn't have a sustainer but he uses the feedback from his speaker to do what i do with the sustainer but he'd actually like to have a sustainer on his bass aswell.. In the newer songs there are parts where we'll both just hold a note for a second or ten before continuing to the next part Anyways, as soon as I have more news from my guitar tech friends i'll get in touch with you through email. I heard they were trying to analyse a Fernandes sustainer kit to see what parts they would need to build something similar and maybe even improved.

well, the only difference in seven-string sustainers is that their wider, so they fit nicely into the holes in the body, and so the magnetic vibration reaches all the strings I don't know how it is with bass sustainers... maybe it's just the same but i can imagine strings of that thickness need more power to be vibrated. You might notice that my band's sustainer needs are way off-market which is exactly our problem since we're not rich or famous enough to "force" fernandes to make custom sustainers. Anyways... Some local guitar tech friends of mine (í'm not a guitar tech myself) are trying to figure out how to make custom sustainers for me and our bassplayer (not for commercial purposes other than us rewarding them for their good work). So I wanna ask you to if you could lend them a hand with some tips or perhaps a fully illustrated step by step tutorial So i dunno, if you're interrested in making us custom sustainers or lending my friends a hand in figuring out what to do please contact me at r00key@home.nl (ofcourse we can negotiate a reward...)

hey guys, I have just registered solely for the purpose of joining in on this topic. I've been playing the Fernandes Revolver Pro 7 for a few years now and i absolutely love the possibilities i have with 7 strings and a 7string-sustainer! My problem is: If i ever want to buy a new guitar i want a 7 string guitar and i want to put a sustainer in that one as well, only the 7 string sustainer kits can't be bought separately! And sustainiac has discontinued making 7 string sustainer kits. So I'd like to have a go at your sustainer PSW, it sounds about the same as the fernandes sustainer. Could you make me a prototype with a driver suited for a 7 string guitar? Also, our bassist who plays a 6 string bass guitar would like the possibility of infinite sustain on his bass (needless to say there aren't any sustainers for 6 string basses). I know sustain on a bass is possible because Peter Steele from type o negative has a prototype of a Fernandes Bass Sustainer in his bass but the damn thing never went into production. Anyways, you might wanna take a look at my bandsite. If you want an idea of why i use a sustainer check the videoclip for "drowning". HiraedD.com