Completely Made Up Yet (Not) True (Non-)Facts About Gear

Aidanspaghetti

Aged gibsons are worth the money......

PolarityMan

The Axe-Fx II was the first computer to beat a grand master at chess.

impmann

Line6 are bringing out a new pedal in 2016 called the "Zeros n Ones", where they have modelled the exact effect of the digitising process and this can be neatly slotted into the effects send and return loop of your boutique valve amp to make it sound more "digital".

Obviously this is fully gooped inside to dissuade the cloning community and in fact they have digitally modelled the goop used by Pete Cornish for purity of the tone.

LooseMoose

All those 'big names' who advertise Vintage brand guitars ACTUALLY play them (and are big names).

therose789

Behringer stomp boxes are durable. 

PolarityMan

The metalzone is actually a very usable pedal that has some great tones.

Alnico

Someone will release an EQ pedal that goes last in the signal chain and call it 'Global Warming'.

BintyTwanger77

Mr Black was raised by wolves.

SquireJapan

Jimi Hendrix first conceived what we now know as the Floyd Rose back in the late 60s.

Floyd Mayweather (Sr.) bought up some of Jimi's estate, lending his name to the string bending apparatus.

Fun fact - as we all know, it was good old Eddie Van Halen who popularised the device. What you might not know is that Eddie was the one who filipped it around to make it bend _down_ ... Jimi's original design only allowed bending up.

That ladies and gentleman is why we know it as a "Floyd Rose", not a "Floyd Fall", as one might expect.

impmann

It takes two years to harvest the fairy dust installed in each Klon

Teetonetal

Placing little wooden blocks under you patch cables aligns the electrons and increases sound quality.

olafgarten

impmann;903225" said:

It takes two years to harvest the fairy dust installed in each Klon

It takes 4 to harvest the fairy dust installed in each Dumble.

olafgarten

It took 10 years of R&D for Gibson to develop G-Force 9 of those were spent deciding where to place the buttons.

SquireJapan

Steve Vai's older brother.

We all know guitar virtuoso Mr Steve Vai, but you might not know his older "blue collar" brother Kevin. As Steve's idol growing up, it was Kevin's interest in all things guitar that first got Steve hooked.

Fun fact: A bricklayer by trade (with the odd bit of carpentry and plumbing here and there), Kevin found it increasingly difficult to place his calloused monster sized fingers in the right place on his Ibanez Rocket Roll. Thanks to his practical mind, Kevin was able to widen the neck on his guitar allowing him to increase the string spacing - making it much easier for him to place his fingers.

Steve famously stole his elder brother's wide neck guitar, recut the nut and bridge, and managed to fit an extra bottom B string. That gave us what we now know know as the first Ibanez 7 string.

So there you go - 7 string guitars were originally intended as "wide neck guitars for bricklayers and plumbers"

JayGee

Joe Bonamassa is extremely choosy over what he associates his name with and will only endorse a product after he has personally tested it over an extended period of time and actually used it creatively either on stage with a paying audience or in the studio on at least one track which gets a commercial release.

preston61

George Lucas had his lawyers at the ready to sue Gibson when he thought that their 2015 guitars were going to tuned by "The Force"

BintyTwanger77

Much is known about the successes of scientists at CERN with their years of research and work on the Large Hadron Collider & the Higgs Boson, but little is know of CERN's still-ongoing research which started years before Hadron...

 

Trying to work a Red Panda Particle.

impmann

Joe Bonermassive has a new signature Barbeque arriving at NAMM - the 'Bonagrill' comes with Honduran Mahogany wood chips for that authentic JoBo smokey flavour that he insists on backstage before and after shows.
There is an optional extra list that includes a Versace apron, tinted safety glasses and (long tenon) tongs that all bear JB's signature and certificate of authenticity.
Numbers are limited to a production run of just two million units to ensure exclusivity.

PolarityMan

Tortex is made from real tortoises

Marktigere1

The Edge DID NOT get his iconic dotted delay sound from David Gilmour's delays on 'The Wall'.