NOTE I AM A NOVICE GUITAR PLAYER AND AM JUST SEEKING INFORMATION FROM MORE SEASONED PLAYERS SO I CAN UNDERSTAND THE BENEFITS OF A FLOYD ROSE. ARE THERE ANY? THANK YOU.
BASED ON MY NOVICE LEVEL HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS: Coming from a newbie- I know some of you guys swear by them but I don’t get why. With Wilkinsons out there and regular and vintage Fender trems, why do you guys like them? Is a Floyd Rose really necessary? Please educate me. Other than being able to “flutter” I don’t get why people use them when they can't just use a regular tremolo.
I have a few friends who are amazing metal guitar players and one of them plays a Fat Strat with a regular Fender tremolo and the other plays a Fender Eric Johnson signature Strat equipped with a vintage Fender tremolo. Both of these guitars don’t have Floyds and those two friends of mine shriek and dive bomb and do crazy whammy bar effects just like the best of them. Their guitars stay in tune or they retune them a tad maybe at a break- like we break once every hour and a half or so. It’s no big deal-
It’s too bad that I have a fear of guitars equipped with a Floyd because every time I’m in any one of the used music stores in town they always have these really awesome beauty 80s Japanese guitars for sale for a song but the only problem is they all have Floyd Rose tremolo systems. I just saw an 80s made in Japan Ibanez RG550 that I was droolling over for $200 bucks or a Fernandez “The Function” for $140 bucks or an old Jackson or Charvel. Awesomely built guitars, but in my mind, my excitement was quickly dampened once I saw the - Floyd, which is a pain to set up and change strings on.
So I’m asking as a Newbie- what are the benefits if any of a Floyd? I love metal and dive bombs and stuff but after watching my best guitar player friends it seems all the whammybar wanking you’d ever need to do can be achieved by a regular trem or a Wilkinson. Why bother with a Floyd? To me they just seem like a pain in the ass.
Maybe from a newbie point of view it's hard to see the benefits I dunno. Any comments?
BASED ON MY NOVICE LEVEL HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS: Coming from a newbie- I know some of you guys swear by them but I don’t get why. With Wilkinsons out there and regular and vintage Fender trems, why do you guys like them? Is a Floyd Rose really necessary? Please educate me. Other than being able to “flutter” I don’t get why people use them when they can't just use a regular tremolo.
I have a few friends who are amazing metal guitar players and one of them plays a Fat Strat with a regular Fender tremolo and the other plays a Fender Eric Johnson signature Strat equipped with a vintage Fender tremolo. Both of these guitars don’t have Floyds and those two friends of mine shriek and dive bomb and do crazy whammy bar effects just like the best of them. Their guitars stay in tune or they retune them a tad maybe at a break- like we break once every hour and a half or so. It’s no big deal-
It’s too bad that I have a fear of guitars equipped with a Floyd because every time I’m in any one of the used music stores in town they always have these really awesome beauty 80s Japanese guitars for sale for a song but the only problem is they all have Floyd Rose tremolo systems. I just saw an 80s made in Japan Ibanez RG550 that I was droolling over for $200 bucks or a Fernandez “The Function” for $140 bucks or an old Jackson or Charvel. Awesomely built guitars, but in my mind, my excitement was quickly dampened once I saw the - Floyd, which is a pain to set up and change strings on.
So I’m asking as a Newbie- what are the benefits if any of a Floyd? I love metal and dive bombs and stuff but after watching my best guitar player friends it seems all the whammybar wanking you’d ever need to do can be achieved by a regular trem or a Wilkinson. Why bother with a Floyd? To me they just seem like a pain in the ass.
Maybe from a newbie point of view it's hard to see the benefits I dunno. Any comments?
