False beat eliminator

[RicB]

That, friend Jason... is exactly why I wrote the article on the subject 
matter the way I did.  Cold hard facts as best I could muster them, and 
let the reader draw his/her own conclusions.

I've always taken a (careful) middle road on the subject matter.  Of 
course one needs to assure the string is in good contact with the 
bridge.  But one does not need to do this in a manner that is 
counter-productive to the object of said contact to begin with. Hence, 
why tools like the false beat eliminator are IMHO bad.

Gregor... I would advise you give it a read.  June or July a couple 
years back now I suppose. Then draw your own conclusions.

Cheers
RicB


    ANy mention of tapping or pounding strings down onto the bridge or
    near the
    bridge pins is bound to generate one of three reactions: (1)
    silence; (2)
    "read the archives"; or (3) a new upheaval of arguments about why
    that's a
    bad thing (or not so bad) [bad because it mushes the clean termination
    point; not so bad because the observer claims it to be so] and the
    nanotechnology of the termination point, the tension/pressure
    dynamics on
    the string, the bridge, the effect of adding mass here or there, yadda
    yadda, and whether it is in fact even possible for the string to
    ride up the
    bridge pins despite observers' claims that it happens. Until further
    undisputable research is published, it is in my opinion worth
    staying clean
    away from this as if it were a nest of vipers.

    Jason