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Post by skydog958 on Feb 1, 2007 20:52:19 GMT -7
I'm interested to compare the Callaham trem block with the Detemple titanium trem block. It'd be a costly experiment though.
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Post by chipstar75 on Feb 7, 2007 14:43:38 GMT -7
I sent Bill Callaham a link to this thread, and he contacted me to say he read it. He really is a great guy and deserves our support.
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Post by mward on Feb 8, 2007 18:39:16 GMT -7
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Post by chipstar75 on Feb 9, 2007 9:39:21 GMT -7
i told ya so ! i told ya so !
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Post by bluzsteel on Feb 9, 2007 12:27:35 GMT -7
I use his bridge and saddles on my Tele
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Post by dave on Feb 9, 2007 18:38:49 GMT -7
He's sent stuff to me direct to the UK. Arrived in a week. The tremelo block upgrade to my MIM strat was awesome and was a greater change to the sound than the result of upgrading the pickups to Fralins (and that was a big change) The improved tone and sustain definitely WASN'T THE NEW STRINGS!!! I'm a big sceptic of cryo treatment though - it just defies logical science, but you have to keep an open mind when people who know what they are talking about (musically) say that hear a difference.
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Post by billyguitar on Feb 10, 2007 7:01:27 GMT -7
I don't think science can describe and explain eveything yet. If cryo treatment sounds better then something happens, even if it can't be described. I'm into the TV program Ghost Hunters where the TV crew follows the TAPS team (The Atlantic Paranormal Society) on their investigations. In watching this program and learning about the members I don't think they fake their evidence. Science can not explain this stuff but there it is. As a side note, there is a lot of bunk out there like Most Haunted and Dead Famous so don't lump Ghost Hunters in with these fakers.
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Post by dave on Feb 11, 2007 10:28:56 GMT -7
No science can't explain everything yet (thank goodness - I'd be out of a job).. but heat treatment and tempering of materials is very well understood. Cryo treatment (ie dunking in liquid nitrogen) is a convenient, cheap and pseudo-high tech sounding process that creates its own market with no scientific basis whatsoever. There are companies out there that will cryo-treat anything (cd players, amps, fridges, cats) with preposterous claims of improvement to every aspect of performance. You just cant change the properties of materials by cooling them 200*C and have them stay that way when you warm them up again. There is just a case for tubes where cooling will trap any residual gases onto the getter, maybe.... but bring it back to room temperature and all this has to reverse. I tried drawing Myles into this one but got no comment! Sorry, as a scientist, it is one of my peeves - bogus science knowingly designed to confuse/impress/amaze but when highly regarded luthiers and tube techs (our very own Derek and Watford valves) say something you have to listen. The way forward for us open minded musicians (I include myself here when gear and TONE is as stake!!!) is a blind test. Line up a bunch of treated and untreated pickups and get a panel to try them out. Has anyone come across anything like this? I use liquid nitrogen in my lab all the time and could try cryotreating the Lentz I suppose. Yeah, why not. I'll give a dunking tomorrow. I'll let you know what happens....
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Post by skydog958 on Feb 11, 2007 11:26:26 GMT -7
All I know is lower temperature=lower resistance. I don't know if that holds true after treatment or how that would affect a guitar signal.
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