what does the Selectravibe do?

If you’ve ever played a guitar with a vibrato (tremolo, whammy bar, wiggle-stick, and other nicknames) you’re already familiar with what they do. Depress the arm, and all the strings relax in tension and drop in pitch.

While setting up my Jazzmaster, I was looking at the vibrato unit, daydreaming about making it work like a B-bender. (I am still thinking about that).

I got to thinking that it might be cool to be able to isolate which strings are affected by the vibrato, while others keep their tension and pitch. Voila. The thing was born. It just needed a name…

Having been “corrected” by arrogant Music Store employees in my youth too many times, anything with “trem” was immediately out. Vibrato, baby. That’s what all the in-the-know cats called it. So… a vibrato, that’s selective. Bam! Selectra-Vibe. Ugh, the hyphen. Gotta lose that. Selectravibe. That’s it! A stitch-up of select, electric, and vibrato.

Selectravibe installs with existing fasteners. Requires no permanent modification. No moving pieces. Dreamed up in AZ and brought to life in a machine shop in CA. Made from Stainless steel, half computer-controlled process and half done by hand. Pursued with the confidence that You are more creative than I am. I build bats, I don’t hit home runs, ya dig? I can’t wait to hear what other guitar players might be able to do with this.

To install it, remove your strings and loosen the tension spring screw. Remove the three screws that hold the pivot plate in place. Set the Selectravibe in place, and carefully re-align the pivot plates, and gently start one of the screws, being careful not to cross-thread it. Once you’ve got one, the other two are easy. The Selectravibe allows for some side-to-side adjustment.

When you go to re-string the guitar, decide which strings you want to isolate from the vibrato action. Insert those into the Selectravibe only, effectively hard-tailing them. The other strings you run through the vibrato plate and pass them through the Selectravibe. All set! All you need is a Phillips head screw driver and a little manual dexterity.

Each selectravibe unit is $15, buyer pays shipping. I ship via $10 USPS small-box. Multiple selectravibe's can be shipped together, no problem.

“Sing on, Brother. Play on, drummer."

To order, please email:

craig@selectravibe.com