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I spoke with Michael Brooks a L-O-N-G time ago. He was
deliberately unclear about the Infinite Sustain thing, because 1) there was some
issue of patent/exclusivity not yet resolved and 2) it's a friggin' dangerous
rig, apparently runnung 120 volts right into your guitar. Kinda like running
around with a toaster on your belly. I believe in terms of tone and response,
the Sustainiac will do the same thing without making you feel like you're
waiting on a phone call from the governor to play the second set.
My experience with both the Fathead and some homemade
variations was this: it adds a TASTE more sustain, but barely tames the
sometimes wild resonant frequencies that some (usually bigger) headstocks can
gobble up. I remember working on a Fender 5-string bass with n oversized head
that made the high D (G string, 7th fret) disappear like a Houdini trick. The
only amount of mass/stiffness that would counteract it was a C-clamp - about
five pounds! If you had an axe that you simply couldn't live without that had
this kind of problem, you might consider some graphite rods in the headstock for
stiffness sans weight.
BTW, Aspen and Associates, makers of the fathead, is Aspen
Pittman of Groove Tubes fame. A good man with golden ears who will talk YOUR
ears right off your head.
Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
coyotelk@optonline.net "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
hallway where pimps and thieves run free and good men die like dogs. There's
also a negative side."
--- Hunter S. Thompson |