KEY FEATURES
• Adjusts to specific fretboard
• Easily used on multiple guitars
• Sleek Design
• G7th locking mechanism
What is the fretboard radius of your guitar? Is it
10” or 12”? How about 16”? Possibly, like me,
you may not even know. Wouldn’t it be great
to have a guitar capo that actually fit according
to your guitars fret board radius? For all these
years, guitar players have been stuck with
“close enough” which means that in order to
properly hold down the heavier guitar strings,
the capo tension would often be too tight for
the lighter strings. Having unbalanced tension
with a capo will create serious tuning issues.
I was surprised to see a new release at the
NAMM show: G7th has developed a new capo
design with what they are calling ART (Adaptive
Radius Technology). The new Performance
3 capo with ART is truly the next generation ensures the perfect fit against your fretboard. of guitar capos and one of the biggest As you begin applying pressure, the center advancements in decades. The technology of the capo will touch the highest part of the In the video, I tried the capo on four guitars: a
behind ART consists of a new active string pad fretboard first, between the 3 and 4 strings. Gibson J150, a McPherson Touring, a Fender
with sliding cams underneath that mechanically As pressure continues to be applied, the cams Stratocaster, and a Fender Telecaster. The
adapt to match your guitar geometry perfectly. will begin to slide outward to level the string pad Performance 3 capo performed perfectly on
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the capo will lock in place and hold its tension.
against the curvature of the fret board. Once in all four guitars. There was no fret buzz and the
What’s the fretboard difference? Often acoustic place, the capo will have even pressure across guitars stayed in tune. I’m really pleased with the
guitars have fret board radius’ of 10”, 12”, 14”, all six strings. When I saw the mechanics of the Performance 3. It’s just the slightest bit wider
or even 16”. Electric guitars most often have cams in the see-through capo, my first thought than the Performance 2, I’m sure because of
fret board radius somewhere between 9” and was to compare it to how some large home the ART components inside. If you’re looking
14”. Classical guitars will have most often a flat appliances are leveled - you tilt the appliance for something sleek that will work on every
fret board. To explain, the lower measurement forward and as you lower the back, the back guitar you own, check this one out.
for the radius (10”), the more curved the fret legs adjust to the level of the floor. This makes board is. The more curved the fret board, the sense to me!
more comfortable it may be to your hand when
playing, but the more difficult it has been to use This Performance 3 capo will be useful equally
a capo. on electric guitars as it is on acoustic and
classical guitars. The capo still has the same
So how does this ART really work? At the award winning G7th tension control that is on NAMM show, G7th had a giant model of the their Performance 2 capos. It is an easy on, new capo that allowed us to see the inside ART easy off trigger design that is simple to operate mechanism (pictured). Behind the string pad, with one hand and stays sleek and low profile there are sliding cams that automatically adjust against the guitar neck. With a simple squeeze Retail $54.95
as the capo pressure is applied. This is what between the front and back to apply pressure, www.G7th.com
March 2019
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