Buzz Feiten Tuning Nut: Why Isn't This On EVERY Guitar?
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- čas přidán 18. 12. 2022
- Buzz Feiten Tuning Nut: Why Isn't This On EVERY Guitar?
Mike McAdam from GenX Guitar asks the tough questions. If you are unfamiliar with the Buzz Feiten tuning nut, get ready for your guitar life to change!
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This came standard on my Washburn Parallaxe guitars and I love it.
Another great video! Learned something new today! Love you and your content! ❤🎸
Great vid! I'm going to have buy me one now!
I have the BFTS on 4 of my guitars and it has vastly improved the intonation. Not perfect but much more pleasing to the ear than standard intonation does. Even with a guitar that already has correct nut placement, the tuning and intonation offsets make it sing.
Some Washburn sold here in Brazil come with this factory system. My Idol WI64DL (made in Korea) and my Parallax PXS20 (made in Indonesia) have it. And the Gibson, Fender, PRS, and other big ones don't have it for two reasons: 1 - The companies don't want to pay the hoyalts. 2 - The vast majority of guitarists don't bother with normal tuning problems, or don't even have the ears to notice the difference, so they don't complain.
Hey man. Great vid. At what stage in your warmoth build did you install the buzz feiten nut? When the build was done? Before the frets were put in? I also plan to add the system to a warmoth build which i would also like to have plek’d.
Do they make one of thies nuts for custom shop les Paul's ?
I have the Feiten tuning system on 2 guitars and it is great!
I had heard of Buzz many years ago, the 90's maybe. I'm interested now, however I do use a capo on a few tunes and that would be an issue.
Like Ghalladryel below, I got a Washburn which included the Buzz Feiten system standard. This was 15 years ago, at least. Now I'm trying to find videos to help me remember how to maintain and/or adjust it. This tuning system is my partial, poor-man's solution for addressing these intonation short-comings without having to buy one of those specialized "true temperament" guitars with the squiggly frets for $4000 (Strandberg) to $10,000 or more.
Well what the hell is it ! How does it work ? Info ?
I think if heard of Buzz Feiten tuning, is that possible?
Here's why. Companies/builders have been putting the nut closer to the first fret for a long time because they figured out it helped with intonation. PRS actually has the patent on it. The BF system is only a patent on the tuning and intonation offsets, since they couldn't patent the nut placement. Intonation and tuning is such a vast continuum of compromise the world will not blow up if you run the offsets on any guitar. You guitar may already have the proper nut placement. 100% will if its a PRS.
I absolutely love the bfts. Anyone who can’t hear the difference I say is deaf. However, there are some big drawbacks: you need a special tuner (hard to find these days) you need a licensed installer (equally hard to find). Plus, the company seems practically abandoned. Their site hadn’t been updated in like 10 years. On the next guitar I’m having made (a Warmoth) I’m going to have an Earvana nut installed, which supposedly achieves the same results but without the need for a special tuner or setup. We’ll see what happens. As for why it never caught on in the first place, there are many factors, but the biggest is that most players can’t hear the difference or don’t care. Which I think is their loss.
A fixed note instrument such as a guitar or piano cannot be tuned to play perfectly in tune in all keys. This is why J.S. Bach championed the equal temperament system with 'The Well Tempered Clavier'. To allow for transposition to any key, each key must be slightly out of tune.
Here's the sterile answer. There is zero benefit for a mass manufacturer to add it. They've done the math and not enough people pay for it.
So many lies in this video. There is no such thing as a "Buzz Feiten tuning nut." What the tech does is move the nut. To do this, he shaves off a bit of your fretboard, which is a permanent mod to your guitar. And according to the laws of physics, you can't have "perfect intonation on the entire neck." You can have better intonation, but it will never be perfect.