electro acoustic tuner

[leerummey]

hi all i have a tanglewood evolution exotic
this is its spec :-



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TWF SPL E

SHAPE Folk
TOP Solid Sitka Spruce
BACK Laminated Spalted Maple
SIDES Laminated Spalted Maple
NECK (MATERIAL) Maple
NECK (BUILD) One Piece
FINGERBOARD Rosewood
BRIDGE Rosewood
BINDING Maple
SADDLE Bone, Compensating
NUT (WIDTH) Bone (43mm)
SCALE LENGTH 650mm
BRIDGE PINS Black ABS
MACHINE HEADS Chrome Kluson style

FINISH Natural Gloss
EQ Fishman ISYS
STRINGS D'Addario EXP 11
the reason for this thread is that it has a built in fishman tuner but the tuner has two buttons on it , one labelled contour and one labelled phase and i was wondering if anyone could tell me what these are for and how and when to use them ?
cheers guys

[leerummey]

not that its spec has any relevance lol i just thought you might like to see it

[Happy Jack]

The buttons you are referring to are for use with the pick up pre-amp and don't have anything to do with the tuner

Not all ISYS systems were fitted with tuners - from memory (when I was buying an electro a few years back) there was an Isys which was just a preamp with volume, contour and phase - one with a tuner and one with added bass, treble controls. I am pretty sure they are discontinued now. They were fitted to some Tanglewood and Cort guitars

The contour knob is a tone control that from memory is a pushes in / out to cancel out any tone and just gives you the guitar sound dry and out to allow you to change the tone by turning the conyour knob

The phase button is just a push button which prevents feedback at high volumes and increases bass at low volumes

If there is a tuner fitted it should have seperate button marked "tuner" which bypasses the preamp and will activate the tuner window

[leerummey]

thanks my northern buddy