I've NEVER Played ANYTHING Like This Before! 

Definitely a wide body! A little too wide for me...😲

I absolutely love the sound! I can't even describe the tones I'm hearing but they are full, sharp and lots of depth.

Heavy bridges and awesome sustain are the enemy of resonance. They directly defeat the purpose of the resonator, by immobilizing the bridge, making it unlikely to significantly affect the electric sound. Good sustain only happens because string vibration energy is reflected off of an almost immobile bridge and nut or fret. (If the bridge can't move much, little energy is transferred through it to the body, and most of the vibration energy is reflect off of it, right back into the string.) Resonance is the enemy of sustain. Any frequencies that are easily transmitted into the neck wood or the body wood quickly disappear from the electric sound. That's how you get dead spots on the neck. If your guitar actually resonates much at a particlar frequency, and you play a note with a fundamental close to that frequency, the energy at that frequency will be quickly absorbed into the wood, and lost from the electric sound. The note won't sustain as long (because the fundamental is usually the part that lasts longest), and the sound will be thinner. And if your guitar has two resonances an octave apart, it will be worse, because it will swallow the first two partials of that note and sound worse. By and large, a more resonant body will make your low frequencies disappear faster from the electric sound. (Low frequencies are easier to transmit into the wood than high ones, which tend to bounce right off bridge and nuts and even frets. It takes less mass and rigidity to reflect high frequencies back into the string, for the same reason bass frequencies tend to go through walls more than midrange and high frequencies.) That disappearance of bass frequencies may make the sound brighter, because it's losing bass. If that's the effect you want, it's probably better just to have a light body made of cheap, light wood, not a hollow body with particular weird resonances. That will decrease your low frequency sustain, typically in a more even way. But of course, people selling $3,000 guitars don't want you to actually understand what resonance is, and why you probably don't want it, much less that even if you do want it, a cheap light wood body probably sounds better.

Sustain like Nigel's guitar. You can go and get a bite and, waaaaahhh, you'd still be hearing that one.

@@lukegoffkat I know you can't describe the tones, but would you perhaps describe them as "full, sharp and lots of depth"?

Your right, not my cup of tea either but I love the way Darrell brings these new ideas to the channel.Very cool 😎

I thought I’d see Andre here lol

A magnetic pickup only responds to changes in the magnetic field which occurs when the metal strings are vibrating over the pickups, I don’t see how changing the volume of that back cavity changes anything it isn’t an element that influences the pickups up front.

​@@bluwngyes exactly, if they had a piezo mic then the tone could change with the back adjustment, but I'm a bit confused what this does on standard magnetic pickups.

@@panmo2110 they are either dishonest and try to market a gimmick or ignorant and wasting energy and money in a technology that isn’t a thing.

Yeah, even if it's a cool idea in concept I'm not about it. Also what happens when the screw for the back going to the bridge strips out from constantly adjusting it or the carbon fiber wears out and cracks from that same constand adjusting.

I was wondering the same thing

I think just long as your belly is not made up of metal or steel, the effect is negligible… I don’t know

Yeah. I was wondering the same thing. I think the whole thing is kinda gimmicky. I didnt hear much of a difference. And the resonance can be changed anyways by closing or opening the vents. But you're right. Its going to have a big effect on it with your belly smashed up against it.

Get rid of the cushioning!

@@jasoncdebussy even a skinny player would still muffle the resonance.

You shouldn’t magnet pickups only respond to changes in the magnetic field and the only thing doing that are the vibrating metal springs. The back cavity has zero influence on the pickups also the body is essentially a solid body and the back cavity does nothing to the top of the guitar.

@@bluwng That’s not completely true. How exactly a string vibrates gives it its tonal characteristics As an example, the tone of a string is different if you pick next to the bridge compared to picking next to the fingerboard. This is because doing so causes a difference in how the string wiggles. Different bodies can have same effect. Some of the string’s energy is transferred to the body making it vibrate. The vibrations in the body will cancel some overtone frequencies in the string and amplify others changing how it wiggles and thus changing what the pickups hear. But let’s be clear about this: the effect is subtle and I’m not sure that the small change in the cavity size on these guitars can really do much. I couldn’t hear anything significant. That said, the assertion that bodies have zero effect on tone is simply not true.

​@@FossilFishy unfortunately this is not true... It has been proven multiple times that in electric guitars, the only thing that matters is the strings and the pickup. Look up jim lil's videos

@@FossilFishy physics goes a long way. Your first statement on vibration isn’t anything different from what I said and doesn’t apply as far as what energy goes to the body it is not applicable and negligible. We must base things on what we think but actual physical fact. The string vibration that influences the pickup is Transverse what goes into the body is longitudinal and has no influence on the strings transverse movement.

@@bluwng Fossil Fishy is right that neck and body vibrations (mostly due to the flexibility of the neck) can affect the electric sound, a little bit, and that's why the solid body electric guitar was invented, to minimize that effect. The effect is generally negative, in that any vibrations that get into the body (or neck) are lost from the string, never to return, so resonant frequencies fade faster than other frequencies. (Most guitarists seem to think that resonances make the guitar louder right off the bat, and it does acoustically, but not electrically... in the electric sound you only hear certain mostly low frequencies fading faster than they ought to.) That said, I don't think the resonators on these guitars do much. The main resonances that might matter a little to the electric sound are about flexing of the neck and body, and it looks like these guitars are effectively solid bodies, with enough rigidity and mass that the cavity in the back is probably irrelevant.

They have a model called the Elmore that does exactly what you describe, and it sounds better than you can imagine.

Yeah. An electric guitar sound is essentially a metal string vibrating across a magnetic pickup. The guitar materials matter somewhere between not at all and almost not at all. If you want to highlight your guitar's materials, resonance, or acoustics, you need a mic, acoustic, or piezo type pickup. So few manufacturers seem to understand this.

@@GenesisMuseum , Jasper has a model called the Elmore, that may be very close to what you are describing. There are reviews available on youtube from other content creators if you are interested.

I think an unamplified sound clip would be a better analysis. The fist thing I listen for with electric guitars is how they sound WITHOUT amplification.

@@youropionmattersnot Probably right. Which is why an acoustic device on an electric-only guitar is misplaced.

Yeah the difference between the two when strummed was about the same as the difference when you pick half an inch closer to the bridge

The whole "resonator" idea is a bit pointless as we do not hear that much of it, same way the "vents"are pretty pointless....I mean how much air is moved when tightened? AND it vents through the re-string holes too....Seems plenty of ventilation for that tiny bit of air....

The vents would give it more of an acoustic sound.

No

Yep

That's what I was thinking, a good quality Piezo to work with the resonator. That would be amazing, but I'm guessing one of us here will try it out just because we can!

Yes, the trem design is on my bench. That will be out later this year. And for the acoustic guitar people, the 1841 model is for you.

What? The "innovation" made literally no sound difference... talking about guitar innovation? We have multiscale, true temperaments frets... you know, things that actually change the sound...

The single P90 is the Deja model. The Vudoo is 2 humbuckers.

Have you seen the Riversong acoustics? That's the kind of thing I though this was going to be. It's basically an acoustic guitar with a through neck and a floating top. The top doesn't have to be strong enough to resist the string tension in the usual way, so it can be lighter.

Yes...the Somnium is ugly, too. At least these sound good.

Do agree with you!

Tone Straps... there is a Bass in actually in the last proto-type stages... about 45 day out now

The bass is ready for sale