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In the photo here in this link, you can see what the screen looks like when you click on "guitar": https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...e=sh/x/im/m1/1 In this mode you can turn on the tones for all strings, or any combination of particular ones if you don't want the tones for all the strings. There is then the fifth "screen" you can click on, which is called "note". This is what you see in my photo here (you can see in my photo that when I took this photo I had the sound muted, so it did not blast out my ears while selecting the tones and taking the photo): [IMG]Tone Traveler setup DADGAD with 5th 7th and 12th fret harmonics and four highest 9th fret harmonics IMG_20240123_214618493_HDR by wcap07, on Flickr[/IMG] This allows you to select any combination of tones you want, up to a maximum of 16 tones at once. What I have here (I THINK - if I have not made mistakes) is the 6 primary tones for DADGAD tuning, along with the 5th, 7th, and 12th fret harmonics, as well as the harmonics for the 9th fret for the first, second, third, and fourth strings. EDIT: I think I have the 9th fret harmonics set wrong above - oh well, the 9th fret harmonics are not very loud regardless, and probably don't influence the sound of an instrument a lot. So, if you just want to use the Tone Traveler on a guitar (or any of the other three instruments) in standard tuning, it is simple. If you want to choose any other non-standard combination of tones, it is simple to do this as well (once you figure out exactly what notes you want - takes a slight bit of brain processing to sort out all the tones for the harmonics, if you want to include them). With all the primary tones and harmonics running at once as I have things going right now in my little basement bathroom (with the door closed!), the sound is quite something in there, and my daughter is jokingly referring to the bathroom as my guitar house of horrors, or guitar torture chamber! I am preferring to call it my guitar training center, or perhaps my guitar finishing school!
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A few of my early attempts at recording: https://www.youtube.com/user/wcap07/featured Last edited by wcap; 01-29-2024 at 02:20 AM. |
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If you want to run it also in an alternative tuning (as I am currently doing in DADGAD) then you would tune your guitar to that tuning and choose those tones (and possibly also tones for the harmonics) on the Tone Traveler tablet using the "note" mode.
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So my Tone Traveler was just delivered. Fast shipping and delivery. And let me just say: wow, it's quite an impressive box. All the components are well-made, and the speaker is quite heavy (which makes sense). Looking forward to reading through the manual later and putting this bad boy into action |
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My TT arrived today, I charged it up and just ran out fur about 3 hours on my 23 year old Martin-00016SGT. I know there is a want-to bias, but I swear to God it sounds better already, fuller resonance, more chime, maybe louder. I am super excited about this!
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I've had pretty good results with mine. Couple newish guitars responded very noticably. If nothing else "warms up" a guitar for playing after sitting around unplayed for some time.
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Martin 000-18 Norman Blake 1997 Seagull Rosewood Custom Shop Model Brunner Basic Outdoor Guitar Eastman T386SB Aria Sinsonido AS-100C/SPL (customized to steel string) Mid 1930’s Kay Kraft Deluxe K2 archtop Seagull S12 converted to 6 string lap slide Takamine TF740FS 2008 Pono PGKC (flamed Hawaiian Koa 0 cutaway) |
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I've had mine a few days. Jury is still out while I'm waiting for the 80-96 hour treatment on a guitar. I wanna give the TT a fair shake. We'll see.
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Just got one in last week, left it on when I left the studio on Thursday and I’ll be back to it on Monday. A Martin d35 Seth Avett signature model whose alpine spruce top has always felt a little “tight” to me for lack of a better word. I’m interested to see what happens.
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I bought a one-of-a-kind Martin small body 12-string. When I first got it it had all of the tone of a really cheap ukulele. I ran the Tone Traveler on it every night for 12 hours a night. It sounds great now.
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There has not been much proper blinded scientific work comparing guitars "treated" with artificial vibration devices to control guitars not subjected to the same treatment. What work has been done is not encouraging to those who believe in the effect.
Clemens, B. M., Kadis, J., Clemens, D. M., Pollak, E., Clark, P., & Groves, J. R. (2014). Effect of vibration treatment on guitar tone: A comparative study. Savart Journal. https://www.savartjournal.org/articles/22/about.html A broader review of the "playing in" effect in acoustic instruments is not really any more convincing. Weldert, G. (2017). Sound enhancement of musical instruments by ‘playing them in’: Fact or fiction? Europiano, 3, 41–43. https://www.researchgate.net/publica...act_or_Fiction I have not heard of any objective measurements done by those luthiers who take an engineering/measurement approach to assessing resonances/overtones in their builds, other than brief remarks to the effect that their guitars' measurements change in the first few hours after the guitar is first strung up, but not generally after that. |
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Always interesting the effect of double blind testing on a beautifully constructed theory.
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I cited that same article a year and a half ago:
https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...d.php?t=653435 because it seemed like an interesting study. But Alan Carruth pointed out that the study used vibration at a single frequency, 60 Hz, which is well below any relevant frequency on a guitar (the lowest resonant frequency is typically in the range of 80-100 Hz). A broader spectrum of vibration, like that you get from the Tone Traveler, or just sitting a guitar in front of a speaker, could be more effective. So I bought a Tone Traveler and did an experiment: https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/...d.php?t=682438 though not to nearly the detail in the referenced study. Nevertheless, I did see a change in the frequency response of the guitar and heard a change in tone. The Achilles heel of any such study is that it's difficult, perhaps impossible, to associate a particular change in the spectrum with a change in guitar tone, especially when the change is up in frequencies of hundreds of Hz or higher because there are so many resonant peaks. But seeing that a change did occur in a plausible frequency range after jiggling with the Tone Traveler gives me some confidence that the vibration did have an effect. It would be interesting to see a repeat of that study using a more relevant range of frequencies. Quote:
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