mushy the shroom Posted October 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2004 Hey! Very little parental involvement! Especially with the design. Another problem of sending voltage through the strings, is that they would heat up and drop in pitch. Trem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psw Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 Did you see my first post on the sustainer thread...I sent about 15 watts of signal through an electromagnet under the strings...they heated up so much at theat point they were too hot to touch and actually snapped off the guitar! Still, till then, I had sustain p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushy the shroom Posted October 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 Yeah, I did. That was pretty funny. Pretty cool concept. I know that people have used loud speakers under the strings, as feedback was originally created, but more controlled. This has probably been mentioned, but it's a pretty cool idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushy the shroom Posted October 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 So, sorry to dredge this up, but I was thinking of the electrical trem idea. The concept is that you short-circuit a battery with the string, so the string heats up and drops in pitch. This probably wouldn't work with my pickup design, but with conventional or piezo pickups it seems plausible. Aside from the strings heating up, there seems to be no problem. You could wire individual string to a powerful (or not) battery, and use a potentiometer to control the voltage, which would change the rate of the pitch decrease. I bet you could even fabricate a sort of "whammy bar potentiometer" that could bend each string in the traditional way. Kind of a cool concept! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skibum5545 Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 The problem I see is that it might be kind of uncomfortable to play, what with the strings being hot and all. Also, you wouldn't get really a whammy effect so much as your strings slowly going out of tune and slowly returning to semi-in-tune. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psw Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 I'm sure the string would be weakened by the heating effect and break! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushy the shroom Posted October 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2004 I dunno if it would break, but the rebound would be way off. It would probably be useable every 20 seconds or whatever, but probably not too convienent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javacody Posted October 28, 2004 Report Share Posted October 28, 2004 Hook a peltier device to your strings. Hot for lowering, cold for raising! LOL I wonder how it would feel to have 150 degree strings one second and 15 degree strings the next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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