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[@allendean9807]

I know what Morello is getting for Christmas…..

[@jeffarab4947]

Hahahahahaha

[@mikepoirier2492]

And Satch...

[@pripyat.sadboi8092]

Herman Li

[@MaximoAmaya]

Jack White and Matt Bellamy

[@johnhareiel5118]

I thought this was Morello

[@douga8296]

Any equipment demo where "Sleepwalk" is played...automatically awesome.

[@Tommaso_II]

Is sleepwalk the song at the beginning? If it is, who is it by because I love it.

[@douga8296]

@@Tommaso_II Sleepwalk is the tune around 7:30. It's by Santo and Johnny.

[@johnhareiel5118]

Watch Labamba. It's all through that movie

[@Tommaso_II]

@@douga8296 eh to be honest it's boring compared to the first lick.

[@alexandert696]

Imagine if guitars came stock equipped with this effect in the future!

[@greysuit17]

Eh

[@bPcrazydave]

I tried to imagine, I’m just not seeing it. Seems to me it would be much simpler and cheaper to just get a guitar with a trem, and plug straight into your amp.

[@judgegroovyman]

I bet some will someday.

[@georgemeller4074]

If not for the clunky external connections, I'd imagine that it would be pretty awesome. But, I guess that's the actual appeal of wireless tech. I can't help but feel like the Fishman Triple Play is too strong of a competitor to this, though.

[@ShawnJonesHellion]

​@@bPcrazydave terms suck an pop an detune strings

[@RobertFisher1969]

Very cool. I wish they sold just the bar as a regular expression device. Not only so that I could just plug it into my smaller footprint EHX Pitchfork, but it could be fun to be able to control all kinds of different parameters with a bar.

[@pd4165]

An extra 1/4 jack on the back of the floor unit (+ a bit of software) would do it! There's upside in this! (I've thought of quite a few potential developments in about two minutes - I'm not giving them away for free!)

[@RobertFisher1969]

@@pd4165 That’d be better than not having it, but I really want the option to not have an extra box on the floor. Maybe that’s no possible, but it seems doable.

[@peterwalker7862]

@@RobertFisher1969 Hi Robert, sorry about the box on the floor... but there's a serious DSP and a lot of circuitry required to get low-latency pitch-shift with >100dB dynamic range. The good news: There's a MIDI output on the back of the VJP controller. This outputs 14bit high resolution pitch data that can drive most MIDI-capable effects units - not just for pitch but also for filters, delays etc. Cheers..... Peter

[@RobertFisher1969]

@@peterwalker7862 Of course I understand the floor unit is needed for the pitch shifting. No complaints about that. (And it does seem very good at that, too.) So, you’re saying the controller’s MIDI output can be used without the floor unit? That is good news! If it also had a control voltage out that could be used directly with pedals that don’t support MIDI but have an expression jack, that would be even better, though.

[@gregclagett4312]

There’s still about 50 sounds & adjustments that a Floyd Rose can do that NONE of the digital trems can’t. But I dig the lack of tuning issues especially when using a Strat. And using one on a Les Paul is fun. I’m a studio lead guitarist and I often tour with with 1/3rd of the bands I play for in the studio. I’ve been blessed to have been able to make a living playing professionally for 35 years since I was 17. I have a Jeff Pro and an older Roland digital tremolo, but neither is studio friendly. I have used the JP live on my Les Paul for two songs when I first demoed the one sent to me. My main guitar is an Ibanez Premium w/a Floyd Rose and I use a ESP LTD with a Les Paul type Bridge. My two digital trems stay at home in my home studio gathering dust.

[@gregclagett4312]

Your demonstration was great. And you were spot on pointing out that if you’re used to a floating trem system, it does take some getting used to the “feel” of the Jeff Pro especially when you’re used to the tension of a Rose to judge or feel how many steps you’re looking to achieve, or to know exactly how to hit the bar to get that “growl”. After knowing how to adjust the floating trems to suit me and using them for much of my professional career, I don’t think I’ll ever change to a digital tremolo system. But I really enjoyed your demo video and I love your Jake ‘E’ Lee Charvel. I had one that the headstock broke pulling off the low E & A machineheads. Never could get it fixed, and even after putting a new neck on it, it was never the same.

[@johnmallios551]

@@gregclagett4312you may not answer this but it’s ok. I’m a Floyd rose guy and I’m thinking about modifying a bunch of my guitars with Floyd roses (a Flying V that’s string through, a fender Strat that has a rail tail in it now, and an esp eclipse with a stop tail piece.) Do you think I should just modify those bridges with Floyd roses or just get one of these that I could literally just attach any time?

[@ZackSeifMusic]

This definitely seems like a step in the right direction for pitch manipulation guitar effects! Sounds pretty solid.

[@nj1255]

This would be perfect for multi-scale instruments and also to combine with a Evertune bridge!

[@Gellert]

Evertune sells Fender Teles and hardtail Strats on their site. I was thinking the same thing.

[@ShadowLancer128]

@@Gellert I can't believe I'm finding out about this thing a year later this is f**king AWESOME!!!!!

[@BrettKingman]

That was a brilliant demo, R.J. I know there's a lot to cover and convey with this one because I have one here too. You did it so well and so musically. Cheers.

[@RJRonquillo]

Thanks Brett!

[@Wilco1972]

The number of times in this video where RJ did extreme bends and I just felt that a string was gonna snap... lol

[@TWTexasA1]

It really doesn’t matter what device he’s demonstrating I just watch RJ’s video to see him play..he can play so many styles and there all incredible…👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@christophersuzara4483]

This is the most revolutionary in vibrato tech since EVH’s And Steinberger’s! Wow!!!

[@googaboogaloo]

I love that Jake e Lee signature charvel. My parts guitar is based off of it but I only have a neck and bridge pickup and I have my bridge humbucker wired with split coil.

[@christianboddum8783]

Keeping the original setup and tone of the guitar intact, no intonation and tuning issues, no heavy mechanical stress equals less wear out, are very strong points. The power chord, meh for live use. very interesting product for sure!!

[@madguitrst]

Thanks for this - you've done by FAR the best demo I've seen. Others simply tried to compare the Virtual Jeff to a regular whammy bar, while you not only did that, but MUCH more importantly the creative ways it can be used, which really makes it something inspirational Thanks again...liked and subscribed!

[@TristanL585]

It cost $500 though

[@bassboy8910]

great video, great player and I learned a lot from this demo. For comments that said it lacked doing certain things- I can only remind players that no pedal or product does EVERYTHING. But this one is amazing!

[@aaronthompson1280]

Very cool but think I'd rather have it in an expression pedal than trem arm although I get the limitations of that. Having to mount and only being able to use it on one guitar would be a deal breaker for me.

[@funfreq9282]

Or make it so you can use either one for those of us that have a good expression pedal already! It's hard to tell what type of cable is being used on the bar attachment. If it's a mini TRS then it will be real easy to just use an 1/8th to 1/4 adaptor.

[@RJRonquillo]

Something I failed to mention is that the controller slides into a plastic bracket which is mounted via double sided tape. The unit came with 2 brackets so I can use the controller with 2 guitars. I'm assuming there's a way to order more brackets so you could probably use it on all your guitars.

[@funfreq9282]

@@RJRonquillo What about the cable that plugs into the controller, what type of connector is used?

[@RJRonquillo]

@@funfreq9282 It's like an 1/8in headphone jack, but I'm not sure if it's something different internally.

[@frankb5728]

@@funfreq9282 It's probably the same wiring as an expression pedal, a potentiometer, in a different form factor. I'm surprised I've never seen this around, I've seen wearable rings that work as expression pedals but never an actual whammy bar.

[@DavidOnTheRoadGuitars]

I love how he explains everything that all the other demo people don't cover. Amazing videos

[@DavidOnTheRoadGuitars]

I'm here two years later and finally bought one, excited to see how it works. Still, this is one of the most informative videos I've seen on the product.

[@fomofx]

Thanks RJ! We’re so excited to see VJ PRO in action on your channel. 🔥

[@davebishopcomedy]

Great innovation

[@stevelucero9047]

If this thing had settings that could isolate the effect to individual strings... like a B-Bender it would be amazing....

[@russellzauner]

*chuckles in Peavey AT-200* *laughs in Anteres DSP* But this solution is elegant and stylish - pretty cool. Good job on the builders. Also, I already placed an order for the MRG Studio baritone that you demo'd the other day and I cannot wait for it to get here. That thing is burly af and I can already feel it in my ears. It's literally the first new guitar I've ever bought. I have a *lot* of instruments but I, again literally, never buy new if I can give an old hero a home... it was *your* demo that finally had me cave in and get something not only new but crafted in a factory I have never touched *any* instrument from. You run great demos. Thanks for producing and publishing useful content for enthusiastic humans.

[@KevinFontana]

Was is weird having the pitch change without the corresponding change in string tension? Or hearing the string noise being a different pitch? Did it take much adjustment to get used to the 'feel' of it? Looks like it could really open up some interesting sounds and licks. Pedal steel replacement ;-)

[@RJRonquillo]

The feel took a little getting used to, and each interval setting is going to "feel" different.

[@Raydoesitintime]

Just have both😉

[@ajdumapias8319]

Imagine this with a sustainiac pick up haha that is something i really want to try someday

[@hrosemd]

Couple it with a guitar with an Evertune. That would be a cool idea.

[@johnw5734]

I like it. Half my guitars are wammyless and this gives my an option.

[@jeffarab4947]

This is pretty sic I like it too

[@chrisfrostmusic3423]

REALLY decent demo. I started watching this asking myself if I need one, now I want one

[@BigHairyGuitars]

Frikkin rad!!! I just want to live inside these bends 10:39

[@eloann]

Interesting concept, plus that sound better than most pitch shift effects I've head.

[@JoeR203]

So it's like a pitch wheel on a keyboard/synth. Now I won't have to buy a Les Paul with a tremolo. 😀 Steve Vai would probably add this to his arsenal of effects.

[@johnhareiel5118]

Great, more albums full of cat dying noises.

[@cancelbubble6535]

Brilliant piece of gear and demo. Only concern I would have would be mounting it on a nitro finish.

[@gearmaestro]

I really like the B-bender type of effect that you did at 10:40. That has a lot of possibilities, but I would probably buy this unit just for the virtual capo feature. Especially for the reason that you can capo down. No regular capo can do that.

[@simonpsychosis2812]

Oh, don't mind me- that's just the sound of my JAW HITTING THE FLOOR. Wow.

[@AlexVonCrank]

And that, KZbinrs, is how a demo is done!!

[@jreagle58]

I dunno if it's a game changer but it's sure as heck an amazing piece of gear. In addition to the trem features, a gigging musician doesn't have to tote baritones or other guitars tuned down or have to fiddle with tuning down (or up) in the middle of a set. Now here's another idea, for slide guitarists You can change your open tuning with ease.

[@pnut3844able]

True true

[@Mr.Goldbar]

will definitely buy it for my hardtail guitars

[@gngrblls2thwall]

Honestly, the main appeal to me is that you can use it in the middle of a song and your guitar won’t be out of tune for the remainder of the song.

[@RobTackettCovers]

I made a comment a while back in regard to guitar modelers like the Variax as well as Roland guitar modeling tech, and said these guitars should all be hardtail guitars with a virtual whammy on them that works just like a Floyd or a good whammy....glad to see someone had the same or similar thoughts and had the technical knowledge to make it happen!

[@MrNihilist74]

Awesome idea. I would like the same idea for a wah-wah effect too. Use the digital tremolo bar to control a wah-wah effect. 499$ I would just buy another guitar with Floyd rose for less than that.

[@brad-guitar-miller813]

very cool effect. I can see lots of 5150 in the future!

[@LiebsterFeind]

Brilliant idea! I love my whammy guitar but dread the tuning issues and changing. One correctinon at 1:40. I looked closely at the picture and that man does indeed have a head, unlike Ichabod Crane.

[@DamienDalton]

Man you could have so much fun with this. Very innovative!

[@edwardjons8684]

this thing is a gamechanger… very impressed. they are gonna sell a tonne of these. I’m in. Hope they djip to thr uk.

[@f.d.english5080]

I made a simple one of these with a pot and spring and bar. I stuck it where a whammy bar would be. It works wah wah tone effects. Fun to

[@noluckclub]

i just got an ad for this...and over the last year I've picked up a Steinberger, a Schecter Diamond Damien-7 with Floyd Rose, and a Gretsch Streamliner for a Bigsby...didn't realize this was a thing lol. I have seen that Bigsby pedal though...anyone know how that is? But most importantly, is there tab or a tutorial on that Sleepwalk cover? That was wonderful

[@johngraham5722]

Great job 👍 been using Floyd roses for 25-30 years I guess whatever the hell they came out. Great product for now I don't know how much are they

[@jarexxsuvexx8212]

Since none of the major musical product merchant here in the USA carry this product i am incline to believe the product may have some major flaws that they feel it's not worth the risk stocking. additionally i tried to access the manufacturers website and safari browser wouldn't grant access due to too many redirects(this is usually indicative of a website load with all kind of privacy related tracking and data collecting tools).

[@DommoDommo]

This is actually really sick, can you flutter on it?

[@designzem]

Would love to hear you play some EVH songs to hear what it sounds like with dive bombs. Actually it would be cool to hear you demo it playing Summer Nights like Eddie did with the Steinberger trans trim.

[@honkytonkinson9787]

That’s really cool. Can you isolate strings with it, like drop D only, or make your guitar sort of a B bender? Can it be an octave pedal?

[@markkeneson6806]

Yes, or mimic pedal steel effects, where multiple strings are changing in pitch simultaneously, but not necessarily in the same direction or to the same number of steps.

[@honkytonkinson9787]

@@markkeneson6806 that’s really a cool effect!

[@markkeneson6806]

@@honkytonkinson9787 I should not have said yes in my above post, as I see now that it appears that I was answering your question. I meant Yes, I want to know if it can do that too. Sorry for the confusion.

[@honkytonkinson9787]

@@markkeneson6806 ah, well maybe someone else will fill us in. I’ve been wanting to get a digitech whammy again, but this might be better if it’s about the same price. (I had an original wh-1 in the 90s and sold it because I couldn’t figure out how to use it)

[@markkeneson6806]

@@honkytonkinson9787 I think it might require a hexaphonic pickup(either the Roland style or piezoelectric saddles) to be able to affect Individual strings differently like we would like.

[@Legionary512]

Thanks for using good adjectives and describing the physical layout. I'm blind so this helps a ton. Earned my sub :)

[@BuddyBlues]

11:41 sounded glorious! Excellent demo as always dude

[@createlovehappy]

Cool Stevie wonder lick

[@ze-ce.cra_]

Like keyboard pitch bend wheel only in shape of a whammy bar, also sounds like the program being used is digitech whammy

[@MajRatbag]

I would like to see the guitar signal go into the whammy bar unit and from there out to the stomp box so there is only one cable from the guitar. The wireless setup kind of accomplishes that but will require endless batteries or recharging. Sounds great though.

[@denselman]

Genius idea

[@williamholcomb8645]

sleepwalk sounded awesome with this 8:02

[@blam3329]

I just ordered mine today. It would be really cool if there was a discrete "lock" switch on the guitar-side unit that allowed it to be used like a Steinberger without needing to stomp a floor box.

[@EDEN-LIMINAL]

Sleepwalk for the win. Sounds awesome, great presentation.

[@jjemsnd7]

Thanks for that, definitely one of those in my future. I really like the dual mode example that was a really cool sound. Not a big whammy bar user I just use it to shimmer some cords It looks like it'll do that too. Again thanks great demo

[@estabanb55]

Who ever made this is awesome, now your strings won't go out of tune 😊

[@cachavez7]

For $500 I would rather just buy a new guitar with a whammy.

[@FriesinNF]

Buy it, make a no. 1 hit and you earn 500 per hour! 😜🤡

[@johnhareiel5118]

Now you know they only give hits to the Justin Biebers and Billie Ellish' these days

[@doogdoogdoogdoogdoogdoog]

Good luck bending up an octave 👍

[@cachavez7]

David Gilmour and many other guitarists did just fine without the need to. @@doogdoogdoogdoogdoogdoog

[@doogdoogdoogdoogdoogdoog]

@@cachavez7 lol what even is this argument?

[@GhettoFrosty]

This is the most significant guitar accessory since the Floyd Rose, wait till Steve Vai gets one lol

[@licks4daysgslinger545]

This device is hard to get but a very useful tool in the toolbox. Cool.

[@TheMasonator777]

Nice guitar.

[@ScottyBrockway]

Lovin the Jake E Lee!

[@jfo3000]

Jake is badass! As is his guitar!

[@klaussturh3445]

Roland G-5 VG Stratocaster/V-Guitar-System about 10 years ago, with several open tunings on board, has not been a huge success cause main customer base play home at relative low volumes: even the natural dry sound of a solidbody is loud enough to interfere with the virtual trem signal. This results in additional costs to seal off with good head phones or an in-ear-monitoring-system. To 'trem' my telecaster a simple expression pedal into 'BOSS Pedal Bend' is completely sufficient!

[@277southtombob]

This would be great on a stop or string through that you just didn’t want to modify. It seems like the tracking on these type of effects have really improved. I’ve had different foot operated ones over the years and it used to be pretty bad and would jump.

[@ResponseAudio]

That's amazing! Great demonstration of how it works! THANKS! And, I even giggled a little at "headless guitar guru, Ned Steinberger".

[@picksalot1]

Cool. I'd like to hear some Jeff Beck inspired playing to see how well it does.

[@Norman-Bates]

I want one so bad...Maybe next Christmas when they're more available out of the USA

[@AzSamad]

Wow, I haven’t had a strong desire for a piece of gear for such a long time and this appears. Crazy sounds!

[@francescacarcassi116]

It would be perfect if you could apply it to single stringsnso you can mimic drop d etc

[@micah_noel]

I think the capo feature is something I could find useful. I would want to try it on one of my custom fiddles but I’m afraid that the acoustic sound, while not nearly as loud as a standard acoustic violin, would be too loud to be able to use it without having in-ear monitors cranked up loud. Even an electric guitar puts out enough volume to require louder monitoring than I would normally use to be able to hear the processed pitch shifting over the sound of the strings.

[@kevinmcguinness1113]

Nice demo, thanks. Cool device. Very similar functionality to a Digitech Whammy DT plus a bit more. Polyphonic tracking sounds very good. Would love to see it small enough to squeeze into a routed cavity on a guitar 😁. $500 is pricey (plus shipping, plus 20% import duty into the UK), but I would consider putting it on my next project guitar, which could potentially allow me to lose the ~$300 cost of a high-end trem system. Do you know does FOMO have a reseller in the UK ?

[@brucerawsthorne8936]

Although you still can’t help thinking about the strings when watching 🙄. This will really help my looping mission

[@Terry3Gs]

Awesome demo & interesting product !!

[@csgband]

Excellent video, I’m sold. I just ordered one. Thanks

[@USMarine75]

Someone started to play Summer Nights 😆

[@RobertDorschel]

Your vid here sold me on this pedal.

[@lewisbirkett4428]

It's ridiculously expensive for what it is. You could buy a floating trem or floyd as welll as a digitech whammy dt for the same cost or less and have the same functionality

[@SSSnake420]

8:55 This sounds like a song off of Breakfast In America by Supertramp

[@vangimot]

It will be a nice combination with evertune bride too!

[@ericajohnson7535]

cool concept. But nothing replaces a real wham, how it introduces feedack and other noises without which it's just a digitech wham.

[@jakemixd]

Great video as always RJ. How’s the latency compare to digitech’s Drop?

[@RJRonquillo]

Just as good, if not better.

[@sivertSt02]

Now im considering putting a trem on my guitar

[@highdesert420]

This is fucking genius and revolutionary and I'm wondering why I'm just now finding out about it, maybe the price point a bit high and some competition would make it more affordable, but damn this is so bad ass this has got to be the greatest guitar related invention since the Floyd Rose or I don't know wow

[@kamaboko1]

An amazing invention. Brad Gillis just had his hair blown back.

[@chrisnairn3658]

AWSOME! Thanks for the video.

[@michaeladamcaira9174]

Thats an outstanding piece of equipment R.J thanks

[@leightnite3056]

Pretty slick!

[@Nieves1313]

Holy hell!!! Awesome!!!

[@thespectralights2072]

So do you have to remain seated for the performance so you don’t break that little cable plugged in?

[@nathanwalsh3028]

Dimebag: Ha!!! Grabs his Dean ML. Hold my bear son I'll show you how it's done!!!

[@r0hko]

i literally only want this to play some of his digitech whammy riffs lol

[@veerchasm1]

Wow, it seems like it tracks well, better than a Whammy

[@hyrulesurfer1]

Does Vai have one yet? Can't wait to hear what he does with it..

[@anthonybernero9720]

I'm going to put this on one of my basses.

[@o.w.dobbins6927]

Great demo!! Very intuitive on your part….. got to get one of these!

[@stackedfat]

Brilliant invention.

[@jamproject9]

Killer demo

[@BopKitBill]

Mike Fuller makes great effects at Fulltone.

[@davidhauzel9040]

Need that for my dreadnought acoustic guitar