Good Strat w/floyd

[Boleslaw Gers 666]

Re: Good Strat w/floyd

Do floyds get good sustain? My tremolo that my strat comes with really deadens the sound and gets out of tune. I was thinking about going with a Floyd.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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Do floyds get good sustain? My tremolo that my strat comes with really deadens the sound and gets out of tune. I was thinking about going with a Floyd.

A bad trem will kill the sustain regardless of who makes it.
Original Floyds don't, in any way, negatively affect sustain. If you screw the pivot scews directly to the body of your guitar, you will increase it even further!

 

[nuntius]

Re: Good Strat w/floyd

Aww, c'mon! Live a little!

Actually, if you look a little closer... and maybe magnify those words a few times, you see this:

Aww, c'mon! Liveina littlecardboard box, and sell your house and car so you can afford that guitar!



What you could do, is get any guitar you like routed out for an OFR ... but that would cost quite a bit

The problem with looking in the price category you're looking in atm is getting a good floyd. If you're talking new, I'm betting almost all of them will have liscenced copies of them... I'm scracthing my head now trying to think of a strat looking guitar with a floyd and it's hard. I thought about the Carvin Bolt , but the only trem option listed is a Wilkinson :/

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Good Strat w/floyd

Fender has Strats with Floyds, but their POS guitars with POS licensed Floyd bridges.

 

[MDS]

Re: Good Strat w/floyd

Hahah...

I thought about the Bolt...I wish they'd do the Floyd route on the Bolt Kit. I think the best option I've got so far is an used Japanese strat. They made those with Floyds for awhile.

 

[kherman]

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Does it have to be a Floyd?
Carvin offers the Bolt with a wilkinson trem.

Very nice trems. And Carvin uses graphite nuts and sperzel tuners for better tuning stability.

 

[kherman]

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oops, didn't see the post before mine.

 

[MDS]

Re: Good Strat w/floyd

Yeah, I want the floyd. I had floyds for years and sold those guitars. Now I'm getting some work doing rock'n shred type stuff for tv/radio and need my crazy shred stuff back, but I want a guitar I can still take to a gig without getting dirty looks.

I have a strat with a modern trem on it that works fine for normal wang bar stuff, but it can't deal with the dive bombs, flutters, lizard down the throat action.

Mike

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Good Strat w/floyd

How about this one?
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2355

 

[MDS]

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Wow. That burned my eyes!

Right idea, though I'd like a mellow paint job and a neck pickup! It toally has that EVH vibe, though, which is super cool!

 

[B2D]

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Fender has Strats with Floyds, but their POS guitars with POS licensed Floyd bridges.

I beg your pardon?!?!

Maybe you'd like to rephrase that...

 

[wixomwhat]

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Fender has Strats with Floyds, but their POS guitars with POS licensed Floyd bridges.

Add ESP to the list of POS guitars

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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I beg your pardon?!?!
Maybe you'd like to rephrase that...

Hehe ... okay:
With rare exception, most every Strat with a Floyd is a POS strat with a POS licensed trem ...

How's that?!

 

[MDS]

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I beg your pardon?!?!

Maybe you'd like to rephrase that...

Now we're talkin'! What model is that?

 

[That90'sGuy]

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It might seem weird, but I play for a living and I often run into situations where I get judged before I even play a note, so looks count.

You're always going to get people that are going to initially not take you seriously because you play an Ibanez. Ibanez makes some good stuff, but if you want to make a better initial impression, you might want to look into something different.

If you play professionally, you owe it to yourself to get a really nice axe. It doesn't get much better than Suhr, trust me on that If you need a lot of different tunings, hold onto the other guitars, but if you want a quality guitar that's going to be consistant night after night (and need it to support yourself), you really are a prime candidate for _atleast_ a G&L (I think something like a Grosh or Suhr would be ideal).

 

[Willis]

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It toally has that EVH vibe, though, which is super cool!

More like George Lynch...


I'm guessing you don't like Charvels either, because of the pointy headstock...

 

[Quencho092]

Re: Good Strat w/floyd

man that is one pimpin strat! what model B2D?????

 

[MDS]

Re: Good Strat w/floyd

You're always going to get people that are going to initially not take you seriously because you play an Ibanez. Ibanez makes some good stuff, but if you want to make a better initial impression, you might want to look into something different.

If you play professionally, you owe it to yourself to get a really nice axe. It doesn't get much better than Suhr, trust me on that If you need a lot of different tunings, hold onto the other guitars, but if you want a quality guitar that's going to be consistant night after night (and need it to support yourself), you really are a prime candidate for _atleast_ a G&L (I think something like a Grosh or Suhr would be ideal).

I appreciate what you have to say, and I'm certainly an advocate of superior gear, but it is a tad more complicated than that. I play a lot of different styles in a lot of situations. I do studio work, casuals, musicals, high profile performances, etc. I play jazz, blues, folk, rock, classical, etc. etc. My career requires a lot of different guitars and limits my ability to put all my cash into one super-nice axe.

I've played some awesome Strat clones(Suhr, Tyler, Anderson, etc), and they're great, but I definitely think there is a point of diminishing returns on these types of guitars. My Amercian Standard, for example, has been set up by a world class tech and is an AWESOME axe. It plays and sounds fantastic. I don't feel the need for anything more fancy than this for stuff that requires a strat. I feel the same way about my AM-50 and my AF-120 to some extent(I've upgraded mine pretty seriously). I think acoustic guitars give back more for their investment, and I have put more money into those. I've also invested a lot in amps, pedals, etc...

I guess my point is, though I love premium instruments, they aren't prequesites for professional work. My issue with Ibanezes in this scenario is more about the stigma of their shred axes. I have no problems bringing a jazz box or semi-hollow Ibanez to a gig. If I was playing in a metal band all day, I wouldn't give it a second thought, but I need my guitars to be able to span a couple of different gigs, thus my interest in a more traditionally styled axe.

Mike

 

[MDS]

Re: Good Strat w/floyd

More like George Lynch...


I'm guessing you don't like Charvels either, because of the pointy headstock...

Oh, I LIKE 'em, they just don't quite fit my needs. I LIKE just about any guitar. I think thats how I ended up with the life I have, for better or worse.

Mike

 

[That90'sGuy]

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I appreciate what you have to say, and I'm certainly an advocate of superior gear, but it is a tad more complicated than that. I play a lot of different styles in a lot of situations. I do studio work, casuals, musicals, high profile performances, etc. I play jazz, blues, folk, rock, classical, etc. etc. My career requires a lot of different guitars and limits my ability to put all my cash into one super-nice axe.

Mike

If you like shredder type axes, think about an H-S-S configuration with a blend pot and coil tap for the bridge. One of my old guitar store friends does the same thing you're doing and with the right strat pickups, you'd be surprised how well you can replicate other tones.

I use the blend pot on my Grosh to thicken up single coils and with some sight volume/tone adjustments, I can get a hollowbody jazz guitar type of sound. With a coil split HB, you can get country chicken pickin' stuff, the full on HB will do all your distortion needs, and a variety of tones ranging from strat to les paul can be reached.

You're a very smart man Mike because you invested a good amount of money into good effects and amps. Good amps are always going to make a not-as-good guitar sound better. If you look around at different Fenders and try out a ton of them, I'm sure you'll find one that will resonate much better than the rest of the stock and close to a higher end strat (like Tyler, Lentz, Grosh, Suhr etc.)

Good luck