Direct Coupling

By Ed Roman

You Really Can Hear The Difference!!!

This is standard on any Ed Roman LSR, Quicksilver or Pearlcaster
If you want to install it on your existing guitar.
Order "Ultratone DCK-1"  Direct Couple Kit  $19.95
Specify 1"    1"1/4   or  1" 1/2
These kits come complete with hardened steel bots and brass inserts

Direct Coupling will add tremendous sustain to your guitar, It will also give you up to 25% more audible overtones.  You can really hear the difference!    See Neck Mounting Myths. The pictures above show a small part of the process. Ed Roman is always trying to come up with new & better ideas to stay several steps ahead of the corporate mega-companies,, 

I have done at least 20 Blindfold tests and even non guitarists can hear the difference.

Direct Coupling defined would be the process by which direct contact is made between all the parts on a guitar that could either add or subtract from the tonality and/or sustain.

It has been said, that if a guitar is directly coupled, it will most likely be neck through body construction, a solid mounted Tone/Pros Bridge & solid mounted pickups.

I will state for the record. You can also achieve direct coupling with a bolt in style neck like a PRS or Quicksilver. To do so you must adhere to several strict rules.

1. No paint, finish lacquer or glue can be present anywhere in the neck-pocket.

2. The neck pocket has to be extremely tight and 100% stable.

Another way to achieve Direct Coupling would be to use a deep set mortise & tenon like a Centurion or a Jaros The rules to apply here are as follows;

1. The pickups need to be hard mounted to the actual neck wood.

2. There must be no glue on the top of the deep set neck, and it must be a tight fit, there has to be a way for the bottom of the top plate to come into direct contact with the deep set neck.

3. The tenon must extend at least to where the bridge is located. There must be direct contact with the studs in the bridge through the top and into the deep set neck itself.

Direct Coupled Pickups

The pickup is physically pressed into the wood of the neck
There is nothing between the pickup & the neck not even paint.

The heel of the neck is press fit tightly in the neck cavity
 So tightly you can actually pick up the guitar by the neck.

There is no paint or filler anywhere in the neck cavity.
Solid wood to wood mount.

This Abstract Guitar is only partially direct coupled.
The neck is in super tight and the pickup is bolted directly to the body
But The Floyd Rose Speedloader Tremolo is floating.

An old ladyfriend of mine sent me this little poem
I thought I would share it with you

A fart it is a pleasant thing, It gives the belly ease, It warms the
bed in winter, And suffocates the fleas.

A fart can be quiet, A fart can be loud, Some leave a powerful,
Poisonous cloud.

A fart can be short, Or a fart can be long, Some farts have been known
To sound like a song......

A fart can create A most curious medley, A fart can be harmless, Or
silent , and deadly.

A fart might not smell, While others are vile, A fart may pass
quickly, Or linger a while......

A fart can occur In a number of places, And leave everyone there, With
strange looks on their faces.

From wide-open prairie, To small elevators, A fart will find all of Us
sooner or later.

But farts are all bad, Is simply not true- We must never forget.......
Sweet old farts like you!

Kinda brings a tear to your eye right?
"First the thorn, then the flower"

N.