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Post subject: Re: Micro-tilt
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 2:00 pm
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Archtop Bill wrote:
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Sustain is solely attributable to the quality of your pickups, your amplifier, any pedals employed, the condition of your strings, and...; how rapidly your strings lose energy due to the forces of magnetism, air density and humidity, gravity, motion of the guitar, and the amount and/or rate that string energy bleeds off, sinks into, and is absorbed by the wooden components of a solid body electric guitar; namely, the "neck" and "body".

I would further add to the list of things which may affect guitar "sustain," that "scale length" should certainly have an affect on natural guitar "sustain".
However, any variation on "how rapidly strings lose energy due to the forces of magnetism, air density and humidity, gravity......, and the amount and/or rate that string energy bleeds off, sinks into, and is absorbed by the wooden components of a solid body electric guitar," is generally beyond the ability of the human ear to recognize any difference or variation of guitar "sustain" in amplified sound.


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Post subject: Re: Micro-tilt
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2016 2:32 pm
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arth1 wrote:

Again, I love micro-tilt. It allows me to keep a low and only slightly increasing action all the way up the fretboard without sacrificing sustain or string/body clearance.
The metal-to-metal connection gives a much harder connection between neck and body than a shim does, for better sustain. And it's a lot easier to get the exact adjustment you want.

Back in the 80's I had a Peavey that had a neck adjustment very similar to the micro tilt (metal screw to metal plate). At the time I was into the filed fret, low action thing. I found the micro tilt type adjustment helped to bring into agreement the lowered nut and bridge. It worked for me.


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Post subject: Re: Micro-tilt
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2016 6:15 am
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I have one guitar with micro-tilt--a 1980 G&L F-100. I have never attempted to set this guitar up myself, and my preferred guitar tech noted the feature when I dropped it off to be set up.

I asked him if that was good or bad; he said, "It is neither. It just 'is'."

It should not hinder a good tech/luthier, and it might be useful to one who has become skilled in its use.

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Post subject: Re: Micro-tilt
Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 6:01 pm
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Screamin Armadillo wrote:
I have one guitar with micro-tilt--a 1980 G&L F-100. I have never attempted to set this guitar up myself, and my preferred guitar tech noted the feature when I dropped it off to be set up.

I asked him if that was good or bad; he said, "It is neither. It just 'is'."

He said that because it's basically useless.......


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