Boneman
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I saw there was another old thread on LTG with the title of the gizmo, but I didn’t want to revive that one to avoid any appearance the device is in any way endorsed by LTG or myself, or others. I simply decided to buy into the hype and bought my own to test it out.
Since getting the ‘68 D40, as well as playing my ‘82 D46 recently(which reminded me why I fell in love with Guilds in the first place), I came to realize I’m addicted to broken in tones. So that spurred my decision in all honesty. So I’ve figured I’d use it on my brand new Adi topped D50T. I mean why not, if it works as advertised, I won’t have to wait until I’m 80 for that one to fully break in. Trouble is it sounds so good now, it might be hard to tell if anything happened after running this unit on it for hours
But if it enhances an already outstanding guitar, money well spent. Then I can run it on all the others, make the vintage ones sound even better too 
Now, I am definitely not being paid by them and not to mention I only just got it, so I don’t even know if it’ll work, or what impact it will have. However, the mad scientist in me says there’s no doubt it will work, so it’s on! Pun intended, lol. We shall see.
The other aspect is, it is LOUD, and I’m sure my wife won’t want to tolerate it. Heck I don’t know if I want to tolerate it. In fact as I type this, and listening to it drone on, I know I don’t want to listen to that, I’ll have to figure out placement. My walls are pretty thin, and the constant drone seeps through them.
Yes it has volume control, but low volumes won’t vibrate things as much and then I feel what’s the point? Short of a mechanical arm that swings a pick like a pendulum across the strings back and forth constantly, or the other similar gizmo tone rite, this at least allows for the top to vibrate while you are away, doing something else, whatever, boom, keeps the guitar top vibrating. So it has to be opening up, breaking it in faster than you can on your own. I mean you can feel it, it does vibrate each string, the whole top, sides, body, it’s pretty cool to watch.
The other neat thing is, you can select specific notes or a single string to vibrate and pinpoint the frequency to target that part of the tops tone range, and maybe enhance the bass strings for instance. If that works as imagined, then a guitar that is great except lacking in bass, well maybe you can run this with just the low e string or even a drop D tone for days, I dunno if that would wake up that part of the guitar, be an interesting test.
Ok, I am going to have to set it up in my spare bath downstairs. Even then, I am thinking I will hear it at midnight when everything else is quiet. If so, I guess I can’t run it constantly unless she’s not home lol. Whether the tones will reach the top floor I’ll have to see. Could become like white noise after awhile, and blend in with my tinnitus.
Also, since the guitar has to sit outside its case, I will keep the room humidity between 45-55. Easy peezy, and away it goes.
Day 1.
Since getting the ‘68 D40, as well as playing my ‘82 D46 recently(which reminded me why I fell in love with Guilds in the first place), I came to realize I’m addicted to broken in tones. So that spurred my decision in all honesty. So I’ve figured I’d use it on my brand new Adi topped D50T. I mean why not, if it works as advertised, I won’t have to wait until I’m 80 for that one to fully break in. Trouble is it sounds so good now, it might be hard to tell if anything happened after running this unit on it for hours
But if it enhances an already outstanding guitar, money well spent. Then I can run it on all the others, make the vintage ones sound even better too Now, I am definitely not being paid by them and not to mention I only just got it, so I don’t even know if it’ll work, or what impact it will have. However, the mad scientist in me says there’s no doubt it will work, so it’s on! Pun intended, lol. We shall see.
The other aspect is, it is LOUD, and I’m sure my wife won’t want to tolerate it. Heck I don’t know if I want to tolerate it. In fact as I type this, and listening to it drone on, I know I don’t want to listen to that, I’ll have to figure out placement. My walls are pretty thin, and the constant drone seeps through them.
Yes it has volume control, but low volumes won’t vibrate things as much and then I feel what’s the point? Short of a mechanical arm that swings a pick like a pendulum across the strings back and forth constantly, or the other similar gizmo tone rite, this at least allows for the top to vibrate while you are away, doing something else, whatever, boom, keeps the guitar top vibrating. So it has to be opening up, breaking it in faster than you can on your own. I mean you can feel it, it does vibrate each string, the whole top, sides, body, it’s pretty cool to watch.
The other neat thing is, you can select specific notes or a single string to vibrate and pinpoint the frequency to target that part of the tops tone range, and maybe enhance the bass strings for instance. If that works as imagined, then a guitar that is great except lacking in bass, well maybe you can run this with just the low e string or even a drop D tone for days, I dunno if that would wake up that part of the guitar, be an interesting test.
Ok, I am going to have to set it up in my spare bath downstairs. Even then, I am thinking I will hear it at midnight when everything else is quiet. If so, I guess I can’t run it constantly unless she’s not home lol. Whether the tones will reach the top floor I’ll have to see. Could become like white noise after awhile, and blend in with my tinnitus.
Also, since the guitar has to sit outside its case, I will keep the room humidity between 45-55. Easy peezy, and away it goes.
Day 1.
I actually used to call it "the sonic runt of the litter". Even my F65ce only a couple of years old with maybe a hundred hours was equally loud with far longer "fade", the time until a full 6-string 12th-fret harmonic chord took to fade to silence. something like 15 seconds vs 9 IIRC, and the '25 was real close to the F65ce, and louder than the '40.
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