What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:08 pm
http://www.groovetubes.com/FATHEAD_P2130.cfm
Hmmmm...
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Re: What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:12 pm
Re: What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:18 pm
Looks like an eighties idea of adding mass to the headstock, to add "sustain and ballance".
It's like the big clip-on Capo-Thing you see on Acoustic Guitar Headstocks, marketed to do the same thing for Acoustic Guitars as well as electrics I guess.
I say eighties because it's a big "Brass" Plate. Very Eighties!
Garret
It's like the big clip-on Capo-Thing you see on Acoustic Guitar Headstocks, marketed to do the same thing for Acoustic Guitars as well as electrics I guess.
I say eighties because it's a big "Brass" Plate. Very Eighties!
Garret
Re: What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:46 pm
Interesting product.
But I kinda like my Ricks the way they are.
But I kinda like my Ricks the way they are.
Re: What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:50 pm
I thought less headstock mass = more sustain?
Re: What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:55 pm
Yes, but more mass on the headstock via an after market addition means more sustain for the maker, economic sustain that is...
Re: What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:03 pm
I remember those things from the 80s. Supposed to add sustain and reduce dead spots. Never tried one....
Re: What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:08 pm
Right, that was the claim. Never tried one either as I never felt the need for it.gearhed289 wrote:Supposed to add sustain and reduce dead spots. Never tried one....
Re: What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:11 pm
jeepers if I get any more sustain my notes will go on forever.......... 
Re: What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:21 pm
What would we do? We'd have to turn the volume knob down when we strike a note to get it to stop ringing!winston wrote:jeepers if I get any more sustain my notes will go on forever..........
Re: What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:24 pm
OMG! Could you imagine if you put one of these things on a bass that already had a brass nut and a Hipshot bridge? You wouldn't even have to strike the strings. The notes would already be ringing!
Re: What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:08 pm
But guys...it is an ORIGINAL Fathead. Doesn't everyone need one? 
Re: What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:12 pm
My Ricks laying anywhere in the room with the amp on and unmuted will excite the strings (due to the hum susceptibility of single coils) and bounce the furniture around the room if allowed (aloud?!) to continue.rickaddict wrote:OMG! Could you imagine if you put one of these things on a bass that already had a brass nut and a Hipshot bridge? You wouldn't even have to strike the strings. The notes would already be ringing!
Gimmick.
Re: What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:26 pm
I've had people call me one of those...dog wrote:But guys...it is an ORIGINAL Fathead. Doesn't everyone need one?
Re: What is this for? What does it do?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:04 pm
I guess it's for people who want more neck dive on their bass...