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Post by RandomHero on Feb 24, 2006 18:17:15 GMT -5
Everyone grab your axe, hold it so that you can look at all six strings with your monitor as a backdrop. IE, if your fretwire were to magically lengthen, it would stab you in the eye and stab your monitor screen as well. Now strum the thing open and watch the strings!
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Post by dunkelfalke on Feb 24, 2006 18:25:58 GMT -5
well... yeah, and what now?
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Post by UnklMickey on Feb 24, 2006 18:32:15 GMT -5
my guess is if you have an lcd monitor ... nothing.
with a crt monitor, you will probably see an interesting effect.
can't verify this, i'm still at work. lots of monitors of various flavors, but no guitars.
unk
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Post by dunkelfalke on Feb 24, 2006 18:34:40 GMT -5
ah, i understand. with a crt monitor we should see the refreshing?
should be even better with a tv set because of interlacing, but since i have got neither...
btw what are you doing at work at half past midnight? ;D
(only joking)
/edit
oh wait. does it have something to do with strobe tuners?
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Post by UnklMickey on Feb 24, 2006 18:45:57 GMT -5
i'll tell you more off-line, so we don't spoil the surprise.
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Post by wolf on Feb 26, 2006 3:19:08 GMT -5
I discovered this effect long ago. In my day, It could be viewed with an ancient Earth artifact known as a television. Granted, computer monitor images are more stable than television images that are constantly changing but the effect is there nonetheless.
I always found it interesting playing notes up a string until you could get the "waves" almost standing still.
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Post by RandomHero on Feb 26, 2006 3:24:03 GMT -5
Aye. My 7 is tuned to low A, and my monitor's refresh rate is 80 HZ... so a couple of frets up and a slight bend and I can get it to sit still.
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Post by dunkelfalke on Feb 26, 2006 12:48:57 GMT -5
that's a really low refresh rate. as i still used crt i refused to use less than 120 hz
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Post by Mini-Strat_Maine on Feb 26, 2006 16:11:41 GMT -5
My wife's not here to make any "you have way too much time on your hands" comments, so I tried it. It didn't really do much. Tried with and without the bifocals; nah. Tried it with my 12-string and thought I felt a little blip in the space-time continuum, so I stopped.
Maybe it's different with singlecoils?
;D
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Post by vroom on Feb 26, 2006 22:50:33 GMT -5
Cool stuff! Finally a reason to be glad I have this old CRT on the desk.
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Post by pollyshero on Feb 26, 2006 23:55:55 GMT -5
Since MSM's wife ain't around, I'll say it.
Y'all have WAY too much time on your hands...
That said: Hey - that's COOL!
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Post by Mini-Strat_Maine on Feb 27, 2006 10:44:30 GMT -5
Since MSM's wife ain't around, I'll say it. Y'all have WAY too much time on your hands... She came back from her errands, and the cat and dog weren't under the bed, so she thought I hadn't been doing any Weird Guitar Tricks. Apparently she didn't notice that blip in the space-time continuum, either. ;D Is it possible that we're all easily amused?  |
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Post by ChrisK on Feb 27, 2006 20:32:44 GMT -5
C'mon guys, yer even scaring the geeks!
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Post by jray on Mar 3, 2006 20:55:10 GMT -5
hi
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Post by sumgai on Mar 8, 2006 4:04:40 GMT -5
C'mon guys, yer even scaring the geeks! Note to ChrisK: No geeks were harmed in the making of this thread. ;D sumgai |
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Post by ChrisK on Mar 9, 2006 0:20:45 GMT -5
Well, they shoulda been!
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Post by blackout on Mar 13, 2006 3:46:32 GMT -5
cool beans, speaking of tv tricks point your remote at your pickups and push a button when pluged in. (lots of other things will do similer efects aswell)
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