ped Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 I know some of you are familiar with Japanese 'Atlansia' basses, but when 'Wezz tone' signed up and to Basschat recently and flashed his Atlansia bass under my nose I thought about them again and went to check out the site. What follows is a great big long list of patents and innovations from Atlansia. here are a couple to wet your appetites: A jack that tells you when voltage drops A thumb rest Pickups with some sort of zanyness going on Trem bridge with tuners (tuners also patented, special design that does not twist the string or something) D-tuner system Some of it I can't work out but quite interesting and some food for thought for those companies who aspire to be a little different! Look here [url="http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ja%7Cen&u=http://www.atlansia.jp/PAT.1.html"]http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&am...a.jp/PAT.1.html[/url] Cheers ped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phsycoandy Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Excellent, Cheers Ped......loving the thumb rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 From what I can tell with the pick-ups, they're designed to be rotated to change the angle of the pole-pieces in relation to the string. I guess the fancy extra bits are to make that easier? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 [quote name='BigRedX' post='217978' date='Jun 12 2008, 10:19 PM']From what I can tell with the pick-ups, they're designed to be rotated to change the angle of the pole-pieces in relation to the string. I guess the fancy extra bits are to make that easier?[/quote] UK's Gordon Smith made basses with rotatable individual pickups so the 2 polepieces could be parallel or at right angles with the string. someone in Bassist or Guitarist's "my bass is" had a couple. IIRC the bass model name was "Gypsy". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ped Posted June 12, 2008 Author Share Posted June 12, 2008 I think you are right BigRed. Notice in that picture there is a control knob in an F-hole too. My oh my did that sound like a nob gag! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 My favourite is the chambered body Concord model with the sound holes in the side of the body pointing up at the player. At the top of [url="http://www.atlansia.jp/PAT.5.html"]this page[/url]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basszilla Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 That thumb rest looks really practical. I'm liking that! That would really open up the tone options on say a p/j set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wezz tone Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 hey ped, thanks for this, really intresting seeing what those guys are up to in japan! The pickups rotate to change the volume of each individual string and when on full output produces a slight chorus effect...... Im going to add some more info on mine in the gear porn section........ cheers Wezz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3V17C Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 i like the fact that the round pickups look like little smiley faces!! ...or is that just me....? .....hmmmmm peace c Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOD2 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 That thumb rest would be really useful for a "floating thumb" technique - it would just feel the same as resting your thumb on one of the strings - and you can have your hand anywhere along the length of the body. Also, with the pickups - I wonder if these are 4 separate pickups ? If so there would be the potential to set the volume on each individually to get a perfect balance between the strings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Cooke Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 damn... I knew I should have applied for a patent on the thumb rest I knocked up from some old bits of coat hanger... The reason no-one else has bothered patenting such a thumb rest is because it's so damn fugly (pardon my french) and stupidly obvious to one versed in the art... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOD2 Posted June 13, 2008 Share Posted June 13, 2008 [quote name='Paul Cooke' post='218357' date='Jun 13 2008, 02:46 PM']damn... I knew I should have applied for a patent on the thumb rest I knocked up from some old bits of coat hanger... The reason no-one else has bothered patenting such a thumb rest is because it's so damn fugly (pardon my french) and stupidly obvious to one versed in the art...[/quote] I didn't say it looked good....I just said it would be useful ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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