Sawdust sniffles and antihistamine dreams. From speaking with them, I am much more confident about it. I'm going to install this on a telecaster. Maybe your basses' acoustic tone had something to do with the fact that the unit you had was for acoustic guitar.maybe not. Thanks David, that helps! I talked to the folks at Graph-Tech, after that I pretty much decided I'd go with that system. Something any hack luthier can appreciate. More than once Richard answered 11PM Sunday night emails within minutes.

Both Richard McClish and Morgan were thoroughly versed in their respective designs and implementations. It's the kind of job you can't possibly get paid for until you have several under your belt which will never happen unless you happen to live with dozens of experimentally minded guitarists that have day jobs in rare medical fields.Ĭustomer service was excellent in both cases. I think that first instal probably took a good 8-12 hours possibly more. If you trim too far, you've potentially blown a $55 saddle so it pays to follow the direction explicitly and start with the tallest saddles first.

This meant a lot of tensioning the strings and untensioning them to get an accurate picture of what needed to happen next. I should point out that the RMC saddles come extra tall and the legs need to be trimmed very precisely to get workable string heights. The non-midi tone from the guitar was excellent with the RMC so if I was looking for good tone then RMC probably wins hands down but if price is the consideration then the Graphtech comes in at about 1/3-1/4 the price. The last RMC midi installation was a few years back on a 7 string classical guitar and that also seemed to track reasonably well though I can't say at all if one was better than the other. As I've come to expect, blending magnetic and piezo outputs is never very satisfying since they are inevitably slightly out of phase. I wasn't too thrilled with the straight piezo signal but I don't think there was any form of eq for it on the hexaphonic board. I don't know much about midi but I tested it out on a Roland VG-99 or some such trickery and it seemed to track very well. I did have to fabricate an aluminum jack plate for it which took way too long and I had some frustrations when i was integrating the piezo saddles with the magnetic pickups and 3rd party preamp at the other end. It works well and was quite small as there is a single, small pc board that's connected directly to the 13 pin jack. I just finished a 4 string bass with the graphtech hexaphonic system that was developed recently for oem acoustic guitar. There's this one from And this one from Graph-Tech I have never worked with either of their systems and I would like to hear from anyone who has- tell me how they work, how they track, and if you ran into any difficulties.

I'm looking into setting up an electric guitar with the 13-pin MIDI output using the piezo saddles made by RMC or Graph-Tech.

Piezo saddles for electric guitar