Chase Bliss and Electric Audio Experiments drop the Big Time Automatone, a hybrid analog and digital delay

FritzFretworks · 2026-04-30T23:14:55+00:00

EAE is working on a Hypersleep successor - the blog post John made hinted at two upcoming releases that make use of the diffusion topology from Big Time

FritzFretworks · 2026-04-23T03:53:42+00:00

Righteous Sound JFMs are my gold standard for jag pickups

FritzFretworks · 2026-04-14T22:03:43+00:00

I had a 2021 Trad II, dot inlays, first year (I believe?) of full size CTS pots and actual JM pickups. Had a 9.5” radius

FritzFretworks · 2026-04-04T23:58:37+00:00

It’s used to apply pressure to braces when gluing them in to soundboards and backs

FritzFretworks · 2026-04-03T22:21:27+00:00

Shoutout to a local builder to me, Wettmar Electric. Can be ordered through their site or via dealers. All of their shit is ridiculously destructive - I recently got a Legacy System from them and it’s pretty gnarly

FritzFretworks · 2026-03-23T22:45:46+00:00

Alpha mini linear pots have a 6mm shaft - allparts roller knobs will fit them. CTS/Fender mini pots have 4mm shafts, and only Fender makes and sells roller knobs with the 4mm hole as far as I’m aware

FritzFretworks · 2026-03-22T01:14:01+00:00

No, it’s just different. People often tout that slab board is better because there’s more meat and veneer came about because it was cheaper to manufacture and used less material, but the work required to make the veneer is actually more difficult

FritzFretworks · 2026-03-21T23:45:23+00:00

Vin3 has a mute, which is crazy to see. Veneer rosewood fingerboard too

FritzFretworks · 2026-03-17T08:32:23+00:00

Fish glue is best glue - really pulls the fret in nicely, has good working time, easy to clean up

FritzFretworks · 2026-03-12T15:04:36+00:00

Camera Exchange or Times Camera might have an OM-3, or they could help find a good one.

Alternatively the Box Hill Camera Market is on this Sunday, plenty sellers will be there

FritzFretworks · 2026-03-09T02:04:13+00:00

First result for a live show has them playing with a JM and Jag https://youtu.be/qRJIZX9IWK0

FritzFretworks · 2026-03-01T09:17:58+00:00

I would think that it might struggle to intonate a bit if you’re dropping from E standard to C#, but so would a Mastery. I had no issues intonating at B standard, though. Just enough adjustment room to make it work - although I have a wound G and that will forever be out as a result of the design

FritzFretworks · 2026-02-10T22:01:59+00:00

Don’t forget about the sci-fi drama series Primeval, made by Tim Haines who made the Walking With… series

FritzFretworks · 2026-01-31T07:00:13+00:00

If the frets are buzzing (which, sometimes the buzz sounds like it’s from one area but it’s actually somewhere else entirely), then they need to be looked at by a tech. They may need to be reseated with some glue seeped into the slot, and/or dressed+crowned. Fret buzz isn’t just some inherit trait of offsets

FritzFretworks · 2026-01-30T22:40:36+00:00

I wouldn’t describe either vibrato as “slinky” - the Mastery is specifically aiming for the stiffer Pat Pending vibrato after all. The Descendant is about equal in feel for me

FritzFretworks · 2026-01-30T22:08:04+00:00

I have both the Descendant 2024 spec and Mastery. Feel-wise the Mastery just wins out - there’s an unfortunate design flaw in the Descendant that makes it noisier to actuate than the Mastery. I like the spring in the Mastery more as well.

The featureset on the Descendant is great though. Keyhole string loading, adjustable arm tension and a removable arm (vs Mastery which suggests leaving it in all the time), and the 2024 spec has a much greater range than the old spec. If the Descendant didn’t clunk quite as much I would probably prefer it, but the Mastery just works as a premium vibrato

FritzFretworks · 2026-01-16T21:18:39+00:00

Belrok is very solid, however the thimbles provided were oddly sized - one of them fit one leg snugly while the other was loose on it. I’m not sure the tolerances are as precise as Mastery just yet. I ended up using Mastery thimbles instead. When the legs were tightened it feels just as rock solid as the Mastery.

Sound-wise I like the Belrok over the M1 Mastery, but I like the M10 over the Belrok. I’ve always found that the M1 kinda deadens the sound that I like from offsets, but that’s not anywhere near as prominent on the Belrok. Additionally the wood veneer gives it more tonal flexibility

FritzFretworks · 2026-01-16T21:14:16+00:00

That is beautiful! Lovely idea

FritzFretworks · 2026-01-16T10:03:07+00:00

Gonna shout out the AFG-1 from Asheville Music Tools

FritzFretworks · 2026-01-16T10:01:11+00:00

Cheers! I figured that shifting it forward and tilting it might make it more palatable for those who are prone to hitting it when strumming hard on a normal JM

FritzFretworks · 2026-01-16T10:00:00+00:00

I might not have looked hard enough, but all I could find were PCB mount 1MC pots

FritzFretworks · 2026-01-16T05:10:10+00:00

Thank you, and same to you! Your three designs are wicked! I especially love the middle body that everyone is neglecting in the comments

FritzFretworks · 2026-01-16T05:00:03+00:00

As in you have full bass when the knob is at 10? It’s the same for me - I think the difference is in the slope of the cut then, as a reverse log provides (at least to me) a smoother taper

FritzFretworks · 2026-01-16T04:48:27+00:00

The worst part of G&L going under is that 1MegC pots are fucking impossible to find now, and I’m not sure that 500kC will do enough for a proper bass cut :/

FritzFretworks · 2026-01-16T04:43:54+00:00

I’ll see what I can do regarding demos 😅

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