Two-Handed Tapping – Announcing the SustainoTapper!

November 2008 — We have a new instrument model, something quite unique!

The Mobius SustainoTapper builds into your choice of Mobius Megatar two-handed tapping instrument the fabulous Sustainiac infinite sustain system.

WHAT IS THE SUSTAINIAC INFINITE SUSTAIN SYSTEM?

Intense, predictable, infinite feedback sustain for guitars. You can morph sustained notes into cool-sounding harmonics during solos, and then back to fundamental vibration mode with the built in Harmonic Mode Control. Ooooh.

Indespensible for the recording studio, a sustainer is the only effect that operates directly on the strings of the instrument.

Maybe you’ve seen the little EBow sustainer gadget. The Sustainiac is kind of like an EBow on Steroids. The EBow is fun, except that it’s darned difficult to use an EBow on the strings while you’re making music with two-handed tapping. To do it, you’d have to have three hands. But with the Sustainiac infinite sustain system, the sustainer is built into the Megatar. Just flip the switch and melody notes sustain … forever.

That’s right. A Megatar that will sustain … forever.

TWO KINDS OF SUSTAIN …

The sustainer’s on/off switch is hidden inside the volume control. It’s a push-pull switch in the volume control, so you can just reach down, give it a tug, and you’re in mongo-sustain mode right now!

And in the tone control, there’s another push-pull switch that selects between normal (‘fundamental’) sustain, and a ‘harmonics’ sustain. I like the smooth sound of the fundamental sustain, but the shocking sound of the harmonics sustain may be just the ticket for some folks. As always, you can choose.

For a ton of technical information about the Sustainiac system, visit the Maniac Music website, here –

http://www.sustainiac.com/

Here’s a photograph of the SustainoTapper –

And here is a body close-up showing the Sustainer Driver Unit in greater detail ..

HERE’S HOW IT WORKS …

The Sustainer Driver Unit — near the fretboard; it looks like a strat pickup — takes the signal from the melody-side Dragon pickup, and pulses a magnetic vibration at that exact same frequency into the melody string(s). This exact-frequency magnetic pulsation keeps the string vibrating, on that same note, for, well, … forever.

Imagine holding your melody notes for as long as you could ever want!

RESTRICTIONS AND METHOD

** Although we cannot presently install the Sustainiac Driver Unit on our Eclipse model — we don’t presently have templates for the installtion — we can make your SustainoTapper based upon a TrueTapper Dragon, a TrueTapper Storm, the MaxTapper, or the ToneWeaver.

** In each installation, we must mount the working pickups in the bridge position, because they must be as far from the Sustainiac Driver Unit as possible. To minimize crosstalk or bleed-through of the melody signal into the bass side, the bass pickup must be the furthest.

** Please remember that when your pickups are in the bridge position, they’ll have a sharper sound than when in the normal neck position. The bridge placement is a requirement of the driver installation.

** As best we can determine, it is not possible to install the Sustainiac driver on both the melody and the bass sides. Well, we could probably mount them on both sides, but God help you if you try to use them at the same time. The feedback and interference would be … oh, let’s don’t even think about it.

** The Sustainiac Driver Unit needs power, so we’ll install a flip-out battery box on the rear of your Megatar’s body. The flip-out battery box is a Quick-Change Artist –

The Mobius SustainoTapper is available via Factory Order now, with fairly normal delivery times. (That is to say, we’ll build it to your spec and ship it out … fast!)

So, anytime you start thinking about the size of the Universe, and thinking about … Infinity … and what it would be like to go on forever … consider the Mobius SustainoTapper.

Sustain is your friend.