Different way to break in a new acoustic !

[Jupiter Tarts]

True but I've heard that the effects of tonerite only work on a guitar for a few weeks before they wear off and require another tonerite treatment. I wonder what it takes to get a guitar's pores to permanently open.

[fregly]

Originally Posted by Choctaw2

With that mentality you could qualify for the Guitars Worst Enemy award. I am sure your just being silly aren't you !

Another one. Right up close to a shooting range. Away from target area, obviously.

[rmyAddison]

If you instantly need to change the tone of a guitar...you bought the wrong one.

People have been breaking in new guitars by actually playing them for a long time, and I'm very traditional when it comes to Tonerites and placing in front of speakers or anything else "artificial".

It's a new guitar, you should want to play it until your fingers get sore !! Break in over time, together, naturally, the old fashioned way....making music...

[zmf]

Originally Posted by Choctaw2

With that mentality you could qualify for the Guitars Worst Enemy award. I am sure your just being silly aren't you !

Nope. Worse enemy would be leaving your guitar on a stand for the duration of a banjo pickers' convention.

Hate to think of what its new sound would be.

[Pheof]

When men marry a new wife, do they have another man consummate the marriage?
I think not.

[ukejon]

When men marry a new wife, do they have another man consummate the marriage? I think not.

Oh, the puns and ToneRite rhymes that come to mind! Too bad the Moderators are watching.

[Scallywag]

Originally Posted by Pheof

When men marry a new wife, do they have another man consummate the marriage?
I think not.

Ha! Well said.

[MrBJones]

Speakers, Tone Right, gun shots...they all work to a certain degree. But THIS THREAD discusses the most effective approaches.

[Wade Hampton]

JT, I have put guitars on stands in front of stereo speakers and played loud music on them. I also have a ToneRite.

I don't know whether the speaker treatment works, but the ToneRite seems to work quite well on some guitars (mostly lightly constructed instruments,) somewhat well on others, and not at all on some others still. My Larrivée guitars in particular seem totally immune to the effects of the ToneRite.

The effects on the guitars that the ToneRite seems to work on don't go away or require further ToneRite treatments. Not in my experience, anyway.

Hope this helps.


Wade Hampton Miller

[Arthur Blake]

Originally Posted by Choctaw2

placing a turned on radio or any sound source in front of the sound hole of the guitar could help the instrument develop it's aging process

Seems to me, if you visualize sound waves, the frequency and amplitude varies.

[Arthur Blake]

Originally Posted by Choctaw2

placing a turned on radio or any sound source in front of the sound hole of the guitar could help the instrument develop it's aging process

Seems to me, if you visualize sound waves, the frequency and amplitude vary, depending upon how you play.

That's why actually playing the guitar may be the best way to open it up to your tastes, and why a mechanized droning or artificial method may hold less appeal.

[kozsak]

Back in my misspent youth, I remember putting my Alvarez Yairi acoustic on a stand next to my Marshall 100 watt half stack.

We played so loud you could see the strings on the Yairi vibrating a good inch or so sideways (parallel to fretboard).

Did it make the guitar sound better? Who knows... But we got a good laugh out of it.

[Ted @ LA Guitar Sales]

Originally Posted by Wade Hampton

...My Larrivée guitars in particular seem totally immune to the effects of the ToneRite...

Interesting.

[jseth]

I think I first heard that in the 70's... and it does make sense, as does the Tonerite unit. Honestly, I think that just playing the dickens out of the guitar is the most straight-forward approach, but I have no experience with the "stand in front of a speaker" method. My limited experience with "Tonerite'd" guitars has been UNDERwhelming, at best...

[flaggerphil]

I just play my guitars. That's what I bought them for.