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That Dredd guitar is making the comic book nerd in me faint.
Couldn't agree more.
Oh, God.....
What have you done!
I have to have that now.
The whole "stays in tune no matter what" thing is almost shocking to me, I've never experienced this before.
I haven't changed strings yet which apparently is a bit of an ordeal, but I'll work it out. I've already had the floyd in pieces twice and reinstalling it has been fine (though I still can't figure out how to get it fully flush resting on the guitar!).
So yeah, big thumbs up from me
Sometimes when I’m playing without one I will reach for it and it’s not there, and I’ll feel a bit gutted.
Goldo Back Box
https://i.imgur.com/FA85z7D.jpg
It's taken an already great tremolo system (Low Pro 7) into a realm of frankly piss-taking proportions.
When you pull up on the arm you are solely reliant on string tension to pull you back to zero point, the springs are out of the equation here until you approach zero point and they tension back up again.
The strings themselves aren't always enough to do this 100% so you find you're slightly sharp and need to go down on the tremolo arm and back up again to "Find" the ZP.
These Backboxes push back against the block and as you come back down from an up-bend, they physically reset the block to precisely the same position it started in so you have springs working both ways.
It's an investment and these will now be fitted to every tremolo guitar I have, they're that good.
I'm going to demo what I can get away with on the UV 7 string at the next few upcoming Jam sessions.
The UV plays so well due to lots of work carried out be @FelineGuitars recently but the backboxes really do finish off the tremolo vs tuning thing perfectly.
@clarkefan
I work on expressive use of the tremolo all the time.
I've worked out some great exercises if you're interested?
PM me if you are.......same for anyone really.
If it's really popular then I'll try to do something more accessible and public.
For many years I've been quite anti trem systems of whatever type - I even prefer hardtail Strats - but recently I've started to appreciate the vintage Strat tremolo, just for a little bit of shimmer. I think it feels better than all the two-point fulcrum style units.
Having said all that, I love the look of the Floyd Rose - the shape of it and the way all those neatly engineered parts fit together. It's certainly a cool design.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Yes you can block the damn things up but they are fiddly things and having to chop strings up to fit them, needing Allen keys etc has always felt like a sledgehammer and walnut situation. Plus they are butt-fuck ugly looking things imho.
Id make exceptions for particular guitars - mainly old US built Hamers but by and large it’s the biggest guitar turn off for me.
Noted.
But that's still at least twice as long as a conventional Strat trem.
The difference is that thirty or forty seconds isn't much longer than the normal gap between songs, so it doesn't obviously interrupt the gig. Two minutes definitely does.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Still a fiddle, faff and fuss no matter what anyone says!
Having the right Allen keys, and cutters - unless you prepare the strings in advance - is *essential* if you're going to gig with a Floyd. It can be done, but it's above the level of hassle I want to cause myself at a gig, even though the time it takes is actually not *that* bad.
There are one or two nasty traps too, the worst is trying to get a very short broken string end out of the bridge clamp if it's snapped right at the top of the block and won't shake out by itself. Needle-nose pliers, good light and a steady hand required...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
but for regular playing i see all trems as a potential tuning liability i don't need.
once set up properly (pita) floyds are generally a bit better than regular strat type bridges, and definitely far better than bigsbys.
but through body fixed bridge can't be beat for tone or stability. and for weirdo noises i have a very decent pedal board. so my policy is that i keep my interface (guitar) stable and trustworthy, and dedicate my chaos and flexibility to my.processor (pedalboard and amp).