Description
The Hosco Visor nut is developed with the same technology as their S.O.S. (Sound Offset Spacers). Each string location is calculated by the MTS theory.
MTS theory succeeded in improving the pitch as correctly as possible with Japanese technology. Inventor, Minehara researched all kinds of problems between string tension and pitch gap. He tested various kinds of standard guitar strings in the world and checked these tensions in his lab. Finally, he derived one formula to calculate the corrected (offset) value from string material, guitar scale and string height. The offset value means the adjustment length from the original scale length. Adjustment length is not only distance between the nut and 12th fret but also the 12th fret to saddle for each string.
Features
- Width: 43mm
- Height: 5mm
- Slot: 3.2mm
- Pre-slotted
- CNC processed
- Can be used with 7.25″, 9.5″, 10″, and 12″ fretboard radius
adminco –
Here we have a permanent nut alternative to the Hosco MTS Sound Offset Spacer for Strat-type electric guitars. This works just as well and has the advantage that the slots can be filed as low as desired, though obviously not lower than the crown height of the first fret. The saddles will all have to be moved forward a bit to get the twelfth-fret octaves back in tune, but this is easy to do. On my MIM Strat I found that the low E-string sat lower at he back of the nut because of the near 2.5 mm shelf for that string. This meant filing a small slot in the wood behind the nut as the string was touching the wood and resonating/buzzing. This was easy to do and a small price to pay for the delight in now having a guitar which plays perfectly in tune up and down the neck. This product has the correct offsets for all the strings unlike the Earvana nut which has the offsets for the bottom three strings the wrong way round. It’s pretty obvious that the low E-string sounds sharper on frets 1, 2 and 3 with a straight nut than the A- or the D-string, so it is given the largest offset on this nut. Hosco have told me that if this product is successful for them, they will bring out a Gibson version. In my opinion this is a breakthrough product.