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Topic: Return Compensator question |
Jon Light
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 29 Nov 2018 4:10 am |
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I'm getting a new guitar (U-12) and I'll go for the optional return compensator feature which I've never had on a guitar. However I already have three lowers on my 8th string E so I guess that is not doable. I am not strong on the actual physics of the compensator. I think I get the idea but probably not really if I've got to ask this: is there a work-around to take advantage of this on my 8th string (where I probably could use it more than on the 4th string where I have plenty of holes available). I don't suppose I can use a raise finger? It has to be a lower, right?
What other raise + lower strings do these get used on? Universal string 12? Am I maybe paying for something I'd just as soon save my money on (not a question of the effectiveness of the compensator--just a matter of not taking enough advantage of it to be worth it)? If you use them and I told you that you couldn't have it on string 8, would you say "oh, then I don't know if I'd even bother"? |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 29 Nov 2018 5:21 am
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My D-10 Franklin has them on all strings that both raise and lower except the 9th string (F) on C6th. For whatever reason the 9th string doesn't need one.
The drop return compensators was the reason I bought the Franklin (it was the only brand that had them at the time). I was tired fighting it on my D-10 PP Emmons. |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 29 Nov 2018 5:37 am
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Good answer, Jack. Thanks. Actually, now that I think about it, I definitely will opt for this. My 8th string setup has a redundancy that, if I like the compensator enough, in general, I might reconsider in order to free up space for the comp rod.
Good. That's settled. |
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Jerry Kippola
From:
UP Michigan, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2018 4:07 pm
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| I put them on St 4-5-6. But here in the north and the winter cold, they can really mess things up as the o ring is stiffer. |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 1 Dec 2018 3:14 am
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Cold weather didn't affect my compensators or the O rings. I used to live in Kansas City, Mo and in the winter it was common to have below zero temperature (and -40 or -50 wind chill).
The guitar may get cold transporting from home to a job, but I always allowed the guitar to warm up before tuning. |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 1 Dec 2018 4:24 am
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Interesting thought. I'd guess that Bill Rudolph has a handle on cold climate so I'll stash that in the back of my head but I'm not going to fret about that.
Odd that I've never been bothered by the 6th string. I lower it all the time and never paid the kind of mind to it that I've paid to the return compensation issue on the E's (but, as per the other current discussion of cabinet drop compensators, I do latch onto that unrelated issue.) |
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