Floyd Rose vs Fender vs Bigsby
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Hot _Grits
Buttery Toneologist
Re: Floyd Rose vs Fender vs Bigsby
they're all three very different beasts. For tone and feel, I prefer an original fender-style bridge with a well cut nut and locking tuners. Bigsbys are cool, but have a totally different sound. Floyds are great for radical stuff, and you get used to the hassle, but they do mess with the tone of your guitar. I'm interested in trying the new speedloader, though.
they're all three very different beasts. For tone and feel, I prefer an original fender-style bridge with a well cut nut and locking tuners. Bigsbys are cool, but have a totally different sound. Floyds are great for radical stuff, and you get used to the hassle, but they do mess with the tone of your guitar. I'm interested in trying the new speedloader, though.
SpeedDemon
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Re: Floyd Rose vs Fender vs Bigsby
Hot_Grits, i have tried the new speedloader on a limited edition BC rich warlock with an ebony fretboard(very very nice guitar playing wise, but i hate the body) i didnt have any problems with staying in tune (stays in tune great) but i imagine tuning would be a bitch, and you have to buy special strings for made for the speedloader.
Hot_Grits, i have tried the new speedloader on a limited edition BC rich warlock with an ebony fretboard(very very nice guitar playing wise, but i hate the body) i didnt have any problems with staying in tune (stays in tune great) but i imagine tuning would be a bitch, and you have to buy special strings for made for the speedloader.
Re: Floyd Rose vs Fender vs Bigsby
You do get used to the hassle, but its still a bitch.
However to the tone statement, I strongly disagree.
It is a different tone, I dont care about statements like 'loss of sustain' and ****e like that, I like the tone of my trem-guitar.
If someone were to mess with my wolfie and put a normal trem in it, claiming it gives it more sustain and better tone. I'd castrate them.
Hot _Grits said:
You do get used to the hassle, but its still a bitch.
However to the tone statement, I strongly disagree.
It is a different tone, I dont care about statements like 'loss of sustain' and ****e like that, I like the tone of my trem-guitar.
If someone were to mess with my wolfie and put a normal trem in it, claiming it gives it more sustain and better tone. I'd castrate them.
Quencho092
New member
Re: Floyd Rose vs Fender vs Bigsby
if you play at high gain, you have endless sustain anyway, especially with your mark IV, so sport that Floyd with pride!
if you play at high gain, you have endless sustain anyway, especially with your mark IV, so sport that Floyd with pride!
MikeRocker
What's Your Forum Nameologist?
Re: Floyd Rose vs Fender vs Bigsby
I prefer either a Bigsby or a Fender, but I like the Fender vibrato set up non-floating, backed down against the body. With either of those options, you can do things like double-stop bends without detuning the non-bent string, and, at least on the Fender, the rest of the guitar stays in tune if you break a string. Bigsbys are great for adding a beautiful quiver to sustained chords, and rockabilly Brian Setzer-style playing. Plus they look so darn cool! Unless you are going to do heavy-duty Van Halen/Vai type of stuff, do not put yourself through the headache of a Floyd. I don't own a Floyd guitar, but if I did, it'd be down only, no floating.
I prefer either a Bigsby or a Fender, but I like the Fender vibrato set up non-floating, backed down against the body. With either of those options, you can do things like double-stop bends without detuning the non-bent string, and, at least on the Fender, the rest of the guitar stays in tune if you break a string. Bigsbys are great for adding a beautiful quiver to sustained chords, and rockabilly Brian Setzer-style playing. Plus they look so darn cool! Unless you are going to do heavy-duty Van Halen/Vai type of stuff, do not put yourself through the headache of a Floyd. I don't own a Floyd guitar, but if I did, it'd be down only, no floating.
strat_master
New member
Re: Floyd Rose vs Fender vs Bigsby
i chose fender but im not much a trem person to start with
i chose fender but im not much a trem person to start with
TwilightOdyssey
Darkness on the edge of Tone
Re: Floyd Rose vs Fender vs Bigsby
Floyd Rose all the way ...
Floyd Rose all the way ...
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HeadBanginologist
Re: Floyd Rose vs Fender vs Bigsby
floyd rose 100% mother****ers!!!!!!!!!!
you get the noise factor, whihc is great and the tuning stability is awesome!!
floyd rose 100% mother****ers!!!!!!!!!!
you get the noise factor, whihc is great and the tuning stability is awesome!!
JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
Re: Floyd Rose vs Fender vs Bigsby
Floyd, baby! For me, the others are unusable. The restringing thing with Floyds is only a pain in the ass if you change string guages/tunings. Not to mention, mine stay in tune better than any fixed bridge guitar does.
Floyd, baby! For me, the others are unusable. The restringing thing with Floyds is only a pain in the ass if you change string guages/tunings. Not to mention, mine stay in tune better than any fixed bridge guitar does.
Re: Floyd Rose vs Fender vs Bigsby
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Just a quick note: I just restrung my wolfie, It only took 20 minutes to take the old strings off. Clean the entire guitar and polish, then restring and stretch in the new strings.
and that was while watching TV at the same time...
Quencho092 said:
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Just a quick note: I just restrung my wolfie, It only took 20 minutes to take the old strings off. Clean the entire guitar and polish, then restring and stretch in the new strings.
and that was while watching TV at the same time...
Re: Floyd Rose vs Fender vs Bigsby
Changing strings on a floyd rose is easy, tuning is whats the bitch, i fixed alot of issues i was having with the bridge d tuning other strings while i bend a note by adjusting the claw tension a little lighter and drawing the bridge down in the guitar at a little big of an angle, solved alot of my hate for my floyd rose and it plays awsome now.
Changing strings on a floyd rose is easy, tuning is whats the bitch, i fixed alot of issues i was having with the bridge d tuning other strings while i bend a note by adjusting the claw tension a little lighter and drawing the bridge down in the guitar at a little big of an angle, solved alot of my hate for my floyd rose and it plays awsome now.
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seafoamer
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Re: Floyd Rose vs Fender vs Bigsby
I play floyds and almost NEVER play with gain. I find floyds to be great for shimmery stuff, surf sounds, twangy sounds etc. Don't know why more non metal gtrist don't use em & I don't give a FV<K either.
I play floyds and almost NEVER play with gain. I find floyds to be great for shimmery stuff, surf sounds, twangy sounds etc. Don't know why more non metal gtrist don't use em & I don't give a FV<K either.
Vasshu the humanoid typhoon
Unseen
Re: Floyd Rose vs Fender vs Bigsby
Well I use both a Fender trem and two OFR's....I like them both but have a preference for the old standart trem, it just has that sweet sound nothing else really has.
Allthough I am serious Floyd addidct and have been so for a very very long time
Well I use both a Fender trem and two OFR's....I like them both but have a preference for the old standart trem, it just has that sweet sound nothing else really has.
Allthough I am serious Floyd addidct and have been so for a very very long time
