1. What is a Fretlight guitar?
The Fretlight® Guitar is a real, six-string, great quality electric guitar, that utilizes a truly revolutionary patented technology that allows you, the player, to learn guitar and see what you need to play right under your fingers. Notes, scales, chords, progressions, lessons, songs, riffs, you name it. Are you still going back and forth from a book, diagram, or chart top the neck of your guitar. You need the information under your fingers! Think about it, where are the letters and numbers for the keyboard you've got in front of you - on a piece of paper to the side of it? - NO! They're right on the keys, under your fingers, where it makes the most sense.
2. Does it really speed up the learning process?
Learning guitar is about repetition. Beginners and intermediates use the Fretlight to practice scales and chords. Having the patterns lit up underneath your fingers helps a player memorize the patterns more easily and quickly. Why would a professional need one? They light up an advanced scale or chord fingering and away they go. They don't need to know how to play, they need to know where to play. Once the pro visualizes the patterns, they're off and running and their creativity does the rest!
3. There's a MIDI connector coming out of the guitar, does it use MIDI?
Actually, it just looks like a MIDI connector. MIDI uses 5-pin DIN cables and connectors. We use an 8-pin DIN connector. There will certainly be software programs that allow the use of MIDI files but you can't simply plug a 5-pin MIDI cable into the Fretlight and feed it MIDI data. We used the 8-pin DIN because it looks somewhat standard and it holds the cable into the guitar nicely, oh, yeah, and we needed more than 5 pins for our system!
4. What is included with each Fretlight Guitar?
Every Fretlight guitar comes bundled with Guitar Power software ( a CD-ROM) and a Fretlight-to-USB cable.
5. Do I get a CD-ROM for the Software?
Upon initial order of a guitar, you will get a CD-ROM with the Guitar Power Application and trial versions of all our other software. However, when you purchase additional software from us, it's all downloadable and therefore requires no additional shipping charges.
6. I hear the Patent Pending Polymer fretboard is awesome, what's the scoop?
You have heard correctly! The new polymer Fretlight fretboard is incredibly in many different ways. The one piece polymer fretboard is mixed to a special translucent tinting so that it hides the LED's when they're not on, but turn the LED's on and MAGIC, they show right there, clearly indicating where to put your fingers. But that's not all. Because of the inert nature of polymers, every Fretlight guitar neck is incredibly stable and not prone to as many seasonal variations and associated problems such as wandering or creeping frets.
The patented Advanced Polymer Fretboard gives the guitar some great side benefits besides hiding the lights:
1. Polymers in general have great sustain when tone is put through them and this neck does to sustain what active pickups have done to the magnetic pickup industry. Plain and simple it sounds great.
2. Being an inert material, the Polymer Fretboard won't swell and contract with the weather like a wood fretboard so you won't see fret migration problems or neck extraneous neck movement. It's straight as an arrow. There is still a truss rod in the neck, but simply set it and forget it!
3. Want different size frets? No problem, the polymer hold frets and allows repeated fret removal and installation without any degradation.
7. What's the warranty on a Fretlight guitar?
There’s a (90) ninety-day limited warranty on all guitars, as well as a 30-day money back guarantee less shipping and handling of course.
8. Do music dealers carry the Fretlight guitar yet, so I can actually see it and play it?
YES! Call 021 556 8988 for more information.
