Evertune anybody?

[stiv]

I’ve been in tour with The Damned again last weekend (well, not with them but one of the band I produce got the supporting spot on the European tour so I went on the road with them) and I noticed that Captain Sensible had this strange thing on his bridge/TOM position of his SGs. I’ve asked his guitar tech and he told me about this Evertune that basically is a mechanical thing to keep the guitar in tune.
I don’t think I’ll ever use one (to install it he had to carve a slab into the body and put a plate above it, a bit like a Strat) but I was curious to know if some of you guys have ever owned/used one.
Just out of curiosity… the guitar player in my band have big tuning issues in her Melody Maker that we’ve not been able to fix even with locking tuners, so I though it may worth trying (the Gibby is a new one and hardly worth something)…

 

[Mr Swisher]

No, they look a bit odd on some guitars. A friend of mine uses one in his rock/metal band and he plays one guitar all night, and never touches his tuners.

I think they really do work.

 

[HypotenusLuvTriangle]

Evertune uses springs to balance the string tension like on a double locking tremolo but doesn't require a locking nut. There 3 zones. Zone 1 and 3 have have backstops on them. When you are in zone 2, the bridge is active and ANYTHING you do to the string will not change its pitch including string bending.. So how do you bend the pitch? You set the system up right before Zone 2 becomes Zone 3. When you bend in zone 2 it reaches the limit of the spring balance and the saddles hit the Zone 3 backstop and allow you to bend the pitch.
This gives a basic run down.

 

[Henry]

I believe Eman built a guitar or two with them for a former member here.

 

[stiv]

No, they look a bit odd on some guitars. A friend of mine uses one in his rock/metal band and he plays one guitar all night, and never touches his tuners.

I think they really do work.

Yeah. Seeing that deep slab the had to do on Sensible's SGs, I was feeling the pain. It's a big hole through the body.
I wouldn't do that on a 1000 quids guitar, nevermind the tuning stability

 

[Ricochet]

I love the idea but there’s no way I’m cutting up a guitar to install one. There was an old GT-member (Roman-something?) who was quite enamoured with it.

 

[HypotenusLuvTriangle]

Robo-tuners are a better idea, and less visually oppressive.

 

[speedicut]

There was an old GT-member (Roman-something?) who was quite enamoured with it.

Dead Roman?
I wonder what happened to that member?