Fender Fatfinger Guitar, Nickel

Squireのストラトで2弦の11フレット、3弦の13フレットあたりにあったデッドポイントが消えて、他のフレットと同じ伸び方になった。ネック鳴りが抑えられるので、ピックアップが拾う音も若干大きくなる。明らかに効果ありだし、Fenderブランドなので買って損は無い。ただ、ヘッドに100gくらいのウエイトを付ければ同じ効果が出るので百均でも自作出来る。Fenderのブランド価値だけで¥4000はちょいと高い気がするので星⭐️4個。ギターに付けてて格好良いけどね。演奏するギターごとに付け替えて使うのは面倒なので、複数個買うと既に数万円レベル。。¥2000くらいだったら星⭐️5個だった。

I have two Fender Player Series basses. One Precision and one Jazz. Both had "dead spots" on the G string. Apparently, this is a common problem. I read on TalkBass that some of my fellow bassists had some success with the Fender FatFinger and so I decided to give it a shot.As it turns out, these little clamps do help by adding mass to the headstock. Now, I do not claim to understand WHY this is, but (in my case anyway) it helped to solve the problems. I get more sustain playing notes on the G string.I was fortunate enough to be able to buy one used from the Amazon Warehouse and paid 50% of retail so I am extra happy about this purchase. I think they are definitely worth a shot if you are experiencing the same lack of sustain on your bass or guitar.

I've had a few guitars with the same problem: a dead-spot on the G string at the 12th fret, where the note dies away more quickly than at other spots. On electric guitars this is very common. I have used the fatfinger a few times. Once or twice it has fixed the problem completely, other times it has moved the dead-spot to another fret, and once it did nothing. I find that its effect is very dependent on exactly where you place it on the head, so if you are lucky you can move the dead-spot around so it occurs between two adjacent notes. This decreases the sustain a little around that spot, but that to me has been more usable than the original problem. Call it snake-oil if you want, but I have found it to work in the way I described.What I haven't seen it do is noticeably change the tone or increase the general sustain of an instrument, but that isn't what I have bought it for. If you have the problem I described, give it a go. It has worked for me, sometimes.

I had a bit of dead spot on my Squier P bass at the 5th fret of the G string. I tend to use that note a lot in the songs I play and it was really kind of annoying with a thuddy sound when ever I hit it with not much sustain. This was an issue even after spending hours doing a really good set up with trus rod, string height, intonation etc. Raising the string didn't help any and at one time I thought that perhaps I may have a raised fret but not so, there was never any fret buzzing going on. Changing strings didn't help matters either and I was beginning to think I was just going to have to live with it. I decided to do a search on a popular bass forum to see if it was common issue and was shocked to find lots of people reporting it with their Fender basses. They said it was possibly some kind of a frequency vibration in the headstock absorbing and deadening the note. I have been playing bass for over 40 years and have never heard of such a thing. I then read about the Fender Fatfinger and some people seemed to feel it was worthless while others felt it had real value. Just like all things where people disagree I had to decide for myself so bought one. Some people are just not very hearing gifted so that could explain a good part of the varying opinions. After trying it out today I have to say there is definite improvement at that fret, the thuddiness is nearly gone. It's not perfect but any improvement is a good thing and how much do we spend on our amps, strings, pickups, tone pots, chords, bridges, tuning keys etc. just to get a small but noticable improvement in our sound? I feel the Fender fatfinger is a quality item, sensibly priced, does what it states and even looks cool on my headstock. The only question I have is why doesn't Fender who obviously is aware of the issue just fix the problem with a new design in the headstock rather than selling this item? Lastly, Amazon would sell more of these if it were properly labeled as for bass also. On the card inside the Fender box it does state it can be used for bass, but not on the Amazon site. I like it so much I'm planning on getting another one and experimenting with placement of double fatfingers on the Squier or putting one of them on my Ibanez bass .

商品ページの写真では固定部分が茶色のフェルトになっているが、実際には白いスポンジのようなものだった。別に困らないけど、ちゃんと写真も変えておけよ。