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Double Bass ToneRite

Steve Freides

Steve Freides

Former Mannes College Theory Faculty
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Dec 11, 2007
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I am not thinking about buying one, but am posting the link just 'cause I'm curious to know if anyone here has used it and wants to offer a report.

ToneRite web site said:
The ToneRite® works by relieving the inherent tensions in wooden acoustic instruments. A new or even moderately played instrument has a tendency to have a lot of individual components that resonate independently. By transferring certain energies to an instrument, the ToneRite® will help the instrument to resonate as a whole. As a result, your instrument becomes incredibly responsive, problem notes improve, less bow pressure is required, the sound comes more quickly with less effort, and the overall quality of tone increases.
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You can also park your bass next to your stereo speakers at home or such and it will have a similar affect on the instrument- pumping sound through it all day and waking it up. I use my acme cabinets in the shop for the stereo system when not giging and there is a definite difference in the instruments when that is bumping all day, just like what your bass sounds like after a gig vs. before.
 
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The concept is valid and it certainly works! There's nothing like playing four to six hours a day to make your instrument sound really full but that's not always possible.

In the old days you'd have your youngest apprentice spent a couple of hours bowing the crap out of a new or freshly restored instrument, now we can use other means.

I've made vibrators for both guitar and bass and they are very effective at 'waking up' instruments. I've recently made a CD of downloaded subwoofer test tones that I'm using to wake up my guitar before picking sessions. The amount of air being pushed and pulled through the soundhole at 100Hz is astonishing.

And everybody asks what I've done to make my guitar sound so good. :thumbsup::cool:
 
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The ToneRite® is nearly silent. Many of our users are surprised at how quiet the ToneRite® is. You can easily sit a few feet from your instrument and not hear the ToneRite® at all. Sound and heat, signs of inefficiencies in the system, should be avoided. Naturally, the ToneRite® is significantly more effective than sound producing systems.

I dunno. First of all, if it is really moving the top of the instrument, it would need WATTS to do this. No power usage is described in the literature. If you had an apprentice bowing the basses all day, and a way to measure the energy involved, I'll bet it would be many orders of magnitude greater than what the Tonerite uses. Secondly, they actually brag bout how quiet their device is. If it makes no noise, then how exactly is it having an effect on your top? I'm sorry, and I expect major blowback from my harsh words, but I really don't see any other accurate description of this device besides snake oil.
 
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robobass said:
The ToneRite® is nearly silent. Many of our users are surprised at how quiet the ToneRite® is. You can easily sit a few feet from your instrument and not hear the ToneRite® at all. Sound and heat, signs of inefficiencies in the system, should be avoided. Naturally, the ToneRite® is significantly more effective than sound producing systems.

I dunno. First of all, if it is really moving the top of the instrument, it would need WATTS to do this. No power usage is described in the literature. If you had an apprentice bowing the basses all day, and a way to measure the energy involved, I'll bet it would be many orders of magnitude greater than what the Tonerite uses. Secondly, they actually brag bout how quiet their device is. If it makes no noise, then how exactly is it having an effect on your top? I'm sorry, and I expect major blowback from my harsh words, but I really don't see any other accurate description of this device besides snake oil.
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Oh, I agree on the Tonerite - it doesn't move the top enough to make a difference. That's why I made my own instrument vibrators.
 
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The ToneRite® works by relieving the inherent tensions in wooden acoustic instruments. A new or even moderately played instrument has a tendency to have a lot of individual components that resonate independently. By transferring certain energies to an instrument, the ToneRite® will help the instrument to resonate as a whole.

W.T.F.F.????????

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