Learning the strings just got easy with the Fret Zeppelin LED Guitar Display. Effortlessly attaching to your guitar, this device lights up to show you where to place your fingers. Whether you’re a total newbie or you know your way around the axe, this device will improve your ability. The full spectrum LED system also has different levels so it can help you improve each step of the way. This will help you learn and memorize your chords with ease. In addition, Fret Zeppelin can teach you to complete quicker transitions so you can play even faster. The Fret Zeppelin system remains compact to not get in the way. In fact, it’s less than half the height of your frets. It works with virtually any guitar, acoustic or electric. Finally, it pairs with an app so you can tune your guitar, visualize the chords, learn tabs, and even freestyle.
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1) We're swapping that clip from the picture out for an actual capo (real guitar capo), so if you imagine how strong capo clamps are, you'll understand that the box will NOT be going anywhere.
2) The capo clip to the box is going to be removable! That means you can take a piece of double-sided tape and mount the box anywhere you like. This could be flush under your head stock (if it fits- varies by guitar brand), the body, or you could simply put the capo through a loop on your guitar strap and hold it there. Keep in mind- we've done extensive testing and we purposely moved away from a body mount because of the number of times the box was caught on clothing. It's rare, but it really can get caught easier there, so we moved it away where it was guaranteed to say free from catching on things. A very important improvement we've made: the cable connecting the Fret Zealot LEDs to the box is going to be a type of audio cable which is commercially available in many lengths, so you can get a custom length extension and customize your Fret Zealot mount any way you like! People have a wide variety of desired mounting locations, so we're making sure we have something that will work for any of them.
1) We experimented with many mounting designs and decided that we needed a universal mount/clip so it will work on all guitar head stocks (Ibanez for example is a very small head stock). We also found that we wanted the box mounted in different locations depending on different playing scenarios (sitting, standing, performing, etc.), which the clip allows.
2) It will be strong. There's no reason for it not to be- it's clipping on wood or another strong material!
3) There is actually a connector on both the LED side of Fret Zeppelin and the box side. This lets you safely disconnect things before you, say, start jumping around :-). This also allows us to replace your clip and send you a new control box if it ever does break! We're big into future-proofing. Let us know if you have any other questions or concerns!
May I know how do we charge the battery? By using micro usb/usb C/something else?
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1) Our actual first code commit was September 24th, 2011. That’s right- almost 6 years ago! We only starting the “timer” from August 2012 (as shown in the campaign) because that’s when the idea matured to its current state and December of 2012 coding was started on the final intended microcontrollers instead of just development boards.
2) Fret Zeppelin is patent pending. We’ve covered our bases from a legal standpoint. Keep in mind that actual patent awards take years, but the process in under way.
3) Fret Zeppelin was actually fully designed before our other product releases, but as stated in our campaign, the prices of the full-spectrum LEDs we wanted to use were too high and we needed to wait. Our other products helped us bide our time and release Fret Zeppelin when it was right for the market. Our other products also taught us incredibly valuable lessons about manufacturing, which we’re of course applying to Fret Zeppelin’s production.
4) Their product is of course fundamentally different than ours. Aside from wrapping around the entire guitar neck, it has single-color LEDs and a non-rechargeable coin cell battery. This is totally fine and should be good for making an introductory product at a very low price. Our product is meant to be the full package that you’ll never grow out of or want to remove �. In conclusion, there’s room in the market for both their introductory product and our all-inclusive product. We have no ill will towards them and are not worried one bit. Once you get your Fret Zeppelin, you’ll see why!
•Interactive Skype session with Fishman Tripleplay MIDI (digital midi = broadcastable) and LED fretboard such as yourself. If both people have these devices then there's no reason they can't send information over a decent enough internet connection.
•Audio analysis as you play that also used in conjunction with a MIDI pickup will allow you to populate other guitars with appropriate scales. Imagine you have an electric lead and a bass to either side and you strum the 4 or 5 chords you play in the song to program it, their guitars light up with appropriate scales and they can choose by hand or use a wireless foot pedal to scroll through every scale that can possibly work for that song.
•Check out GT Control and Fishman Tripleplay on YouTube for Fretlight, that's no longer in use because they went wireless and it got outdated so only wired Fretlights work with it.
•You're on the right track with Rocksmith audio analysis though, their AI Band members in Rocksmith 2014 were a fantastic idea and well implemented. Getting an app together that combines FZ with Rocksmith is a good move but audio recording possibly with external microphone or iRig functionality to allow looping is something you should consider. Imagine your audio recording gets analysed as you strum and then you leave that rhythm loop going and the FZ immediately highlights scales for you to play that will work for the backing track you just built... or just works with backing tracks in general akin to Jamblaster. By all means jump on these if you can and want to, I've been in the MIDI and LED fretboard game for a decade and seen none of these things happen. =)