Guitars and photography

ORIGINAL: Jessie Sammler

I was kind of embarassed when I saw him play a few years ago. I hadn't seen a picture of him in a really, really long time, and I was walking into the venue (a small jazz bar where he was playing with Vital Information), and I noticed some guy with rugged features, walking out for a smoke. We passed within inches, and I asked myself silently, "Who's that old guy who looks like Joe Pesci?" Yeah, it was Frank. He played great, and he talked to one of my guitarists friends at least three different times between sets. Nice guy.

Speaking of Ibanez, my 7-string is a hard-tail Japanese RG7621 with Seymour Duncan Jazz and JB humbuckers, 10-56 strings, a medium-high action, and a Buzz Feiten modification done by Dan Erlewine. Not your typical RG, but one of my best-sounding guitars. Ibanez can be whatever you want it to be.

ORIGINAL: Jessie Sammler

"Buzz" is Howard Feiten's nickname. No one claims that it has anything to do with string buzz. For the money I spent, I got Dan Erlewine's shop to do a full setup and make a bone nut by hand. Somehow, having some random guy in Korea slap a plastic nut on your guitar as it moves down the assembly line isn't the same thing.

ORIGINAL: KainThornn

All this time I had thought the name was some claim to what it does "Buzz Fightin" *blush* :P I had been put off by the early adverts that gave little clue to how it works. After I had looked into it I felt it was very identical to the Earvana system. Aside from the cost and simplicity of the Earvana system, I like that it requires no permanent mods to the guitar or resetting the intonation. AND they're working on a direct drop in for Floyd type nuts!

ORIGINAL: KainThornn

ORIGINAL: pistolpete

The Ibanez guitars that the well known guitarists use are heavily modified by the manufacturer so they can get the guitarists endorsements. That way, they can charge an extra $1000 for their signature models, that sound pretty much the same as any other model.
I've met and worked with a lot of really famous musicians, and they are just like everyone else, some are really nice and some are real snots. It all depends on the individual.

And NO other manufacturer does that? Do ya think the ESPs Kirk Hammett takes on stage are right off the shelf sig models? Do ya think Eric Clapton's Fender is precisely the same as the ones sitting in Guitar Center? If I swap a store bought Gibson Zakk Wylde Les Paul and switch it with the identical one he uses on stage he won't have a clue? Why haven't your musician friends given you tips on good recording software?

ORIGINAL: pistolpete


I've met and worked with a lot of really famous musicians, and they are just like everyone else, some are really nice and some are real snots. It all depends on the individual.

ORIGINAL: Jessie Sammler

ORIGINAL: KainThornn

All this time I had thought the name was some claim to what it does "Buzz Fightin" *blush* :P I had been put off by the early adverts that gave little clue to how it works. After I had looked into it I felt it was very identical to the Earvana system. Aside from the cost and simplicity of the Earvana system, I like that it requires no permanent mods to the guitar or resetting the intonation. AND they're working on a direct drop in for Floyd type nuts!

It's pretty simple. It doesn't require permanent modification to the guitar. It does require resetting the intonation, which is in fact the key to how it works. This page from their website sums it up pretty well:

How Buzz Fieten works..

And yes, you can Feitenize a guitar with a Floyd.