JENZ "GET YOUR BASS BACK"
The most innovative design improvement to the Electric Bass in 50 years
Developed by music industry veteran guitar designer and custom builder, James Donahue, patent-pending JENZ machine heads are direct, drop-in replacements for the familiar open-back, elephant-ear-style bass tuning gears that have been standard equipment on one-piece-neck electric basses since their introduction. Specifically, JENZ tuning gears incorporate threaded posts that channel strings to anchor at the lowest point on the machine head post. This improves overall headstock stability and eliminates headstock bowing – two shortcomings that have plagued electric bass design since its inception – and brings significant benefits. First, string installation is significantly improved. Strings automatically wind neatly and snugly around the tuning post without any wrapping error, so a string can’t bind against itself and become prone to sticking or slippage. Second, the common predicament that many bassists confront – the need for the truss rod to be maximally tightened to compensate for headstock bowing due to its inherent weakness from being unreinforced – is no longer encountered because the headstock remains straight and stable. Third, the JENZ machine heads work to minimize headstock modal vibration that causes pitch warble, modal dead spots, and sustain loss. Finally, JENZ gears also eliminate the need for string retainers that exacerbate undesirable headstock modal vibration. These improvements to bass tuning gear design not only treat many ailments common to one-piece necks, but benefits are also evident in several key areas: easier string installation and tuning, better pitch accuracy and stability, fewer dead spot issues, and increased sustain.
Developed by music industry veteran guitar designer and custom builder, James Donahue, patent-pending JENZ machine heads are direct, drop-in replacements for the familiar open-back, elephant-ear-style bass tuning gears that have been standard equipment on one-piece-neck electric basses since their introduction. Specifically, JENZ tuning gears incorporate threaded posts that channel strings to anchor at the lowest point on the machine head post. This improves overall headstock stability and eliminates headstock bowing – two shortcomings that have plagued electric bass design since its inception – and brings significant benefits. First, string installation is significantly improved. Strings automatically wind neatly and snugly around the tuning post without any wrapping error, so a string can’t bind against itself and become prone to sticking or slippage. Second, the common predicament that many bassists confront – the need for the truss rod to be maximally tightened to compensate for headstock bowing due to its inherent weakness from being unreinforced – is no longer encountered because the headstock remains straight and stable. Third, the JENZ machine heads work to minimize headstock modal vibration that causes pitch warble, modal dead spots, and sustain loss. Finally, JENZ gears also eliminate the need for string retainers that exacerbate undesirable headstock modal vibration. These improvements to bass tuning gear design not only treat many ailments common to one-piece necks, but benefits are also evident in several key areas: easier string installation and tuning, better pitch accuracy and stability, fewer dead spot issues, and increased sustain.
How it works
These machine heads are guaranteed to improve your basses tone and tuning stability or you can return them and we will return your money. Yes they are that good. To keep the cost down I found a way to use all the existing molding and the only part that we need to produce by machining is the string post.
Seeing is beleiving
http://youtu.be/FiSqss8EuQQ
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Seeing is beleiving
http://youtu.be/FiSqss8EuQQ
http://youtu.be/HIdpkPsCQTQ
