ToneWeaver "Nitro" with Screaming-Ghost "Acoustiphonic Sound"

SELECTABLE SOUND SYSTEMS

The Megatar Nitro features two selectable sound systems for bass, and two selectable sound systems for melody.

On the left side of the body in the photograph above, you can see two chrome toggle switches.

One selects melody sound, the other selects bass sound.

RICH BARTOLINI MAGNETIC OR SCREAMING-GHOST ACOUSTIPHONIC PIEZO SOUND

For either melody or bass, your first sound choice is the warm and rich tone of authentic active-circuit Bartolini magnetic pickups. This is the warm, rich sound that has made the Bartolini name world-famous.

But that’s not all, because for melody or for bass, you get a complete additional sound palette … the lush, crisp, and full-frequency sound of GraphTech Ghost Acoustiphonic piezo pickups. The Piezo pickups are embedded in these custom string saddles of Graph Tech’s patented ‘StringSaver’ material –

GraphTech Ghost Acoustiphonic piezo string saddles fabricated from the patented "StringSaver" material

You can *just* see one of the wires at the left side of the first string saddle. The piezo wire is threaded through a hole or slot in the individual bridge plate. Below the bridge plates we have cut a trench, with tunnels through the wood to route the twelve piezo wires into the large pickups cavity beneath the black pickguard.

Also beneath the black pickguard, in addition to the dual Bartolini active-circuit preamps and noise-filtering circuitry, we have installed two GraphTech Ghost Acoustiphonic preamps. These contain additional circuitry which allows you to select the magnetic-pickup sound, or the acoustiphonic sound.

BLENDING YOUR SOUND

In the middle position of your selector switches, you can have both mag and piezo sound, and then the tone/volume knobs act like a mini-mixer right on the instrument.

Here’s a closeup of the tone/volume knobs and dual selector switches –

Megatar Nitro quad tone/volume control knobs and selector switches

The nested tone/volume knobs on the far side control melody and bass for the active-circuit rich Bartolini sound.

The black push/pull tone/volume knobs on the near side control melody and bass for the full-frequency Screaming-Ghost ‘Acoustiphonic’ sound.

‘QUICK-SWITCH’ SOUND SELECTORS

One of the chrome ‘Quick Switches’ selects either mag or piezo for melody, and the other chrome Quick Switch selects either mag or piezo sound for bass. (When you set either Quick Switch in the middle position, then you can precisely blend any mixture of the two sound systems. The tone/volume controls have become a convenient mini-mixer right on the instrument!)

Mobius Megatar quad-output "Nitro" -- The Gigging Pro Instrument

The quad-output Nitro is provided with two mono oxygen-free ‘ClearCables’ made of Japanese Canara Cable with heavy-duty German Neutrik connectors. The cable transmits every bit of the rich active-Bartolini sound and the brilliantly crisp Acoustiphonic sound to your amp, for the ultimate in a voice that’s sweet, and rich, and down, and dirty, and everything in between.

GARGANTUAN SOUND PALETTE

Hear searing solos. Hear crisp choral tones like you’ve never heard them before. Play an acoustic-sounding Nashville sound or a metallic bassline from outer space. It’s all here. It’s all yours.

And for you sound-fanatics out there, the dual outjacks pictured above are actually ‘SmartJacks,’ because if you plug in our mono Clear cables you have bass and melody as usual. However …

SMART ROUTING BUILT-IN

If you choose to plug stereo cables into the outjacks, then the smart-routing circuitry will present you with four separate outputs for the most flexible routing in the world:  Melody Bartolini, Melody Acoustiphonic, Bass Bartolini, and Bass Acoustiphonic.

True quad-output, and outstanding, easy, intuitive control. In your hands.

If you wish to see even more detail of the features pictured above, click on any of the photographs to see a huge photograph with a magnified view. (Caution: dsl connection recommended for humongous detail photos.)

SELECT PARALLEL OR FANNED-FRETS

The fanned-fret ToneWeaver is shown in these photographs, but if you have a tuning that thrives better on standard parallel frets, we can build your Megatar Nitro with parallel frets as on our popular MaxTapper.

HEAR AUDIO SAMPLES

We do not yet have proper recordings of songs using this new instrument. However, the nice folks at Graph Tech were kind enough to supply us with Ghost recordings to demonstrate the startling Acoustiphonic sound –

The instrument in these guitar recordings is a strat; however, the Megatar Acoustiphonic melody sounds very similar. The recordings of a bass are made with the same riff played on normal mag pickups, and then using the Ghost Acoustiphonic system, so you can compare, and discover for yourself the amazing wide palette of tonal colors that will be available to you … only with the Mobius Megatar Nitro.

UPDATE, STARDATE 2009, JAN 30

Faraway sensors report imminent arrival, running at lightspeed, the Nitro Explosion due to arrive Earthside February 1, 2009. And a question that you might ask yourself  –

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No? Then click here: Nitro Explosion, coming February 1, 2009

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