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    2020 Gretsch Streamliner Collection

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    I have a g2622t that I bought a few years back. I've made the following mods:-

    grover locking tuners, chrome G knobs, bigsby tremolo, treble bleed mod on lower horn vol pot, strap locks, graphtech resomax bridge, graphtech nut, seymour duncan psyclone hot pickups (filtertron style) with 2 connection pin quick change clips

    To be honest it was great before any changes but Im a perpetual tinkerer 

    Built in Tuners on Electric Guitars

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    What about the Sound Waves the String produces? Couldn't a Tuner work more simply somehow?

     

    Lots of the older tuners have that. I have a Korg CA1 somewhere and it has a mic so you can tune an acoustic as well as plug in for an electric. The problem with using a mic is that background noise can interfere with the accuracy.

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    Built in Tuners on Electric Guitars

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    I don't pretend to know - but I've read in a few places that the idea of cutting a rectangle out of the side of a guitar to put in a tuner and/or controls for the onboard electronics may start getting phased out.

    I for one - would not want a hole cut in the side of any higher end guitar I owned.

     

    Martin definitely are. I remember Diana doing an interview with Andertons and she mentioned they're starting to go to the small buttons without a control plate so you just drill through the body instead.Their series with the inbuilt microphone images are like this for example

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    Built in Tuners on Electric Guitars

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    I've had a little think and have come up with the follow based on you talking about onboard tuners rather than clip on's

    • More variety/ functions on external tuners. Electric players like having the option of mute/ buffers etc on the tuner
    • Some people dont like the ascetic of the built in tuners on an acoustic (myself included). Many would rather have it outboard
    • Having the tuner outboard allows it to be shared by my guitars. Electric players will generally switch out guitars more than acoustic
    • Less batteries to worry about as a pedalboard tuner would share the power brick the other pedals are running on
    • Pedals have only become more popular with acoustic players in recent years which is quite the opposite for electric players.

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