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Originally posted by solspirit View Post
Those things are cool but a total different theory is applied here.
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I get it Alex, and I've known it for years... It's one of the reasons I don't care for Floyd's. Nothing wrong with them, they're freaking awesome.. just not my style.
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Originally posted by JB_From_Hell View PostThat’s cool, kind of reminds me of the U-bar the guys from Korn used on their Edge trems. It was a bar that sat directly over the bridge, so they could hit it without messing up the tuning.
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How many springs are you using? If you load it up it should be stiffer, I use 5 on my Strat. When I get this floating Floyd setup I’m going to try at least 4 to begin with.
Originally posted by JB_From_Hell View PostThat’s cool, kind of reminds me of the U-bar the guys from Korn used on their Edge trems. It was a bar that sat directly over the bridge, so they could hit it without messing up the tuning.
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That’s cool, kind of reminds me of the U-bar the guys from Korn used on their Edge trems. It was a bar that sat directly over the bridge, so they could hit it without messing up the tuning.
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Mimic the Jazzmaster tremolo
So at the end of January I made a conscious decision to play only ONE guitar for several weeks rather than switching often between instruments. Get to know it, be one with the instrument, make it sound/act like other instruments that I dig, yadda yadda. I've found a cool trick and wanted to share my discovery. A video would be great, but you'll have to use your imagination.
The guitar I'm playing has a floating Floyd Rose tremolo. The thing I wanted to mimic was the Jazzmaster's tremolo. The JM's tremolo has a long bar and limited range which makes it great for soft, subtle, textural warbles. The Floyd Rose is the exact opposite - short bar, tons of range. They're both floaters.
The trick I've discovered in getting the Floyd Rose to mimic the feel of the Jazzmaster tremolo is to have the bar facing directly down - so, perpendicular to the strings. At this angle, there is a ton of resistance and not a lot of range. The closer you put the bar to be parallel with the strings, the less resistance and more range there is. So, you simply tweak the position until you find one that allows you to get a similar range to what the Jazzmaster has. Viola! Soft, subtle, textural, shimmery warbles.
On the Floyd, the bar ends up being beautifully out-of-the-way, and the bar stays where I put it. It's picky, but certainly doable - having a bar that stays put seems key to the success of this technique. I would imagine this technique would work on any floating tremolo bridge, but I don't have any to test. Just wanted to share, hope anyone else finds this helpful and fun.Tags: None
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