Peavey AT-200...Anyone have one or play one?

[rvs0002]

Just heard about this yesterday (it's been out since late last year) and it looks very intriguing. Doing some research it's either a "I love it" or "I hate it" thing, but looks like it would be sweet for a recording guitar for someone who has to tune between every take (especially at only $499 new). Found one used pretty cheap, but scared to take the plunge without playing one and no one arounde here has one.

Anyone have any experience?

http://www.peavey.com/products/at200/index.cfm/item/118115/at200.html#altTune

 

[Manicompression]

I actually went to guitar center a couple months back to check it out, thinking the same thing. If this is only 500 it could be worth its weight for recording.

The technology is AWESOME. It tracks perfectly, unlike those roland vg strats with the onboard tuning / 12 string thing, no real discernable latency. It sounded pretty cool with palm mutes and pinches, I was playing it through one of those peavey valve king combos.
But
The actual guitar is so terrible that I couldnt honestly consider the purchase, Its great technology and its not an insane price for what it does. I mean, It felt like the squier stratocasters of the early 90s, just plain junky with pokey frets and un-inspiring all around. It looks like they are going to release the technology as a floor unit and its also in some parker guitars, so Im holding out hope that it will materialize in a manner thats more up my alley.

 

[rvs0002]

I was thinking the floor unit might be the way to go as well so I could use it with my LP. Pretty freaking tempting though as I found a used one for under $300.

 

[Manicompression]

Eh, Id play it first man. I think even for 250, attached to the guitar its attached to I would still pass. Im not the biggest guitar snob I know, and I was not feeling it.

 

[Fbarre]

for a bit more you could get a guitar with evertune which keeps the strings in tune perfectly in a mechanical way. check it out it's a solution without any need of electronics or software at all.

 

[rvs0002]

That looks cool too, but the peavey not only addresses the tuning issue but also intonation all the way up the neck which is huge. Going to guitar center tomorrow (80 miles away... pain) to try one out.

 

[Fbarre]

That looks cool too, but the peavey not only addresses the tuning issue but also intonation all the way up the neck which is huge. Going to guitar center tomorrow (80 miles away... pain) to try one out.

evertune also improves the intonation which makes it almost perfect. see around 12:10



the advantage of the peavey is that you can change tunings on the fly which is most likely not possible with the evertune. it all depends on what you intend to use it for, they both work different for different things.

 

[FIXXXER]

for a bit more you could get a guitar with evertune which keeps the strings in tune perfectly in a mechanical way.

the AT-200 not only keeps the open strings in tune it also delivers absolute
perfect intonation, at least if you can believe the advertising etc.

unfortunately evertune can't do that, that video is just good playing

i was thinking to buy one of these, gut it out and place the elctronic components rtc. into a good instrument.

all in all it would be expensive
but if it really works that well, it would be awesome!!!

EDIT: found out there are kits available...http://www.autotuneforguitar.com/products/products.php?category=Luthier_Custom_Kits_2

parker is supposed to have auto tune guitars also, i bet they are much better in quality and of course much more expensive.

i'm just nut sure how this will sound at the end. if i see right you have to use the special pickup included in the kit. i doubt that this will work with standard guitar pickups.

 

[Manicompression]

i'm just nut sure how this will sound at the end. if i see right you have to use the special pickup included in the kit. i doubt that this will work with standard guitar pickups.

Its true the Auto Tune feature overrides the actual onboard pickups when you engage the system. I will say the actual sound of these pickups real and emulated didnt put me off, particularly playing high gain. I thought they sounded like a normal vaugely hot paf bucker ala an epiphone les paul standard. I think the degree of customization is what makes a solution like the Evertune more appealing and also more expensive. Did you see they are selling model packs for different pickups, bass, 12 string though? I think it could be cool for dicking around or recording and the possibility for future pickup models based off of user requests exists. I think it would end up being a tradeoff like everything else, would you rather have a perfectly in tune guitar or one that has the exact tonal balance you prefer?

 

[Fbarre]

How would melodyne with dna differ from using peavey auto tune in a studio setting? You could just tune the di track and then reamp the perfectly tuned track, or am I missing something?

 

[nezvers]

How would melodyne with dna differ from using peavey auto tune in a studio setting? You could just tune the di track and then reamp the perfectly tuned track, or am I missing something?

I haven't used melodyne dna, but I think it tunes harmonics and not each string note (because overlaying harmonics).
But peavey auto-tune will tune each separate string.

For me this auto-tune is kinda iffy, because of sting tone that gets affected, like, djenty quack on low tuning. For that I would prefer evertune.