Possibly the only “other” guitar you’ll ever need™
The Fret-King® Super-matic™ self-tuning guitar, is the first
ever guitar to feature the truly outstanding and innovative Wilkinson
ATD HT440™ self-tuning hard tail guitar bridge.
Built with all the hallmark Fret-King style and attributes, the Super-Matic
is a very cool looking beast, cut from matched, two piece centre jointed
American Alder, using heritage styling cues to create a subtly nuanced
classic double cut body, with cosmetics redolent of the shared history
with which we are all so familiar.
The 25 1/5" scale length, 24 fret, Hard Rock Maple neck, with it’s
classic 'Shallow C' profile, matched to a premium, close grain Indian
Rosewood fingerboard with a 10” radius, finished off with an immaculate
fret job, using single cut, hand crowned medium jumbo nickel silver
frets assures precision, comfort and provides a playing experience which
can only be described as luxurious.
The Super-matic features a Hum-Single-Hum pickup configuration, with
Wilkinson WHHBZ33 offset pole piece 'Zebra' humbuckers, wound to a very
authentic recipe and a Wilkinson WHSM 'vintage voiced' single coil middle
pickup.
The combination of carefully voiced and balanced pickups, and the signature
Wilkinson 'Vari-coil control', (which allows either of the humbuckers
to be progressively wound down to single coil), creates an instrument
with an exceptionally versatile palette of sounds capable of literally
any musical style.
The Wilkinson ATD™ self-tuning bridge, which has been under development
by Trev and his team at ‘Auto Tuning Developments’ over
many years, is a super low profile, real time electro-mechanical device
utilising ultra hi-tech micro gearboxes, designed to retrofit unobtrusively
in to a standard Strat® vibrato bridge rout, (or similar), with
a micro hex pickup, controls small enough not to notice, and an intuitive
one touch button controlling all the functions and features of this
truly incredible device.
Invisibly incorporating the microprocessor control circuitry, the ATD
bridge allows the player, with just one touch of the function button
to automatically tune the Super-Matic to standard E-tuning.
Tuning status is confirmed in the hi-visibility display, designed to
be viewed whilst playing, and overall tuning is assured with the built
in chromatic tuner.
Press the function button again, strum, and let the ATD™ change
the guitars tuning from standard E to open G, or change to DADGAD, then
to open D – all in the space of just a few seconds, or recalibrate
to five additional 'user created' tuning presets in just a few seconds
more.
Available in either Black or Original Classic Burst, complete with rectangular
hardshell case, the ATD loaded Fret-King® Super-matic™ sets
a whole new benchmark and opens up a host of new musical possibilities
to expand any player’s performance horizons, and creativity.
Come and check it
out at Summer NAMM, booth number 1436.
UK Retail Recommended Price £1,299.00 inc. bag.
The Fret-King® Super-matic ships autumn 2010.
ATD OEM enquiries to Trev Wilkinson at Auto Tuning Developments Ltd. mail@trevwilkinson.com
USA Fret-King Distribution:
Musical Distributors Group, 9 Mars Court – Unit C3,
Boonton, NJ 07005, USA
Tel 1-866-632-8346, Fax 973-335-7779 sales@musicaldistributors.com
