Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

....Mostly it is....rubbish....if a guitar sounds good, it sounds good, no amount of blipbloptanium or wonderdust will change much.
Some stuff will make it more useable and it will feel nicer too, but it will only make it sound different...unless you park a tanker as a bridge on it...then it will probally just sound like a huge oilcan!

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

....Mostly it is....rubbish....if a guitar sounds good, it sounds good, no amount of blipbloptanium or wonderdust will change much.
Some stuff will make it more useable and it will feel nicer too, but it will only make it sound different...unless you park a tanker as a bridge on it...then it will probally just sound like a huge oilcan!

Yeah that makes sense.

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

I had no idea anyone was using hardened steel for guitar parts. I guess it was inevitable though.

Maybe somebody will offer hardware in burnt chrome- that might be pretty cool. I kinda dig BareKnuckle's burnt chrome pickup covers.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

I have seen those somewhere

 

[Jacew]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

....Mostly it is....rubbish....if a guitar sounds good, it sounds good, no amount of blipbloptanium or wonderdust will change much.
Some stuff will make it more useable and it will feel nicer too, but it will only make it sound different...unless you park a tanker as a bridge on it...then it will probally just sound like a huge oilcan!

There's definitely no point to pay for any special material. But mass is pretty important for good sustain.

It might not be same if you play humbuckers and/or high gain, but with singlecoil strat and floating bridge I want every bit of sustain I can squeeze out of hardware. Especially for notch positions.

And steel block does make a big difference there.

 

[Chistopher]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

All I have to say is that my adjustable steel Badass bridge sounds a whole lot better than the poorly intonated zinc POS that was on my LP Jr. when I bought it. It also looks cooler.

 

[mxaniac]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

Perhaps we should move on to heavy gauge Monster battery cables to improve your car audio experience now.

 

[Silence Kid]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

I thought Badass were zinc?

 

[Chistopher]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

I thought Badass were zinc?

I was referring to the style of the bridge and used the brand name to avoid confusion. The brand I used was Pigtail, who seems to have stopped selling steel wraparounds and now uses aluminum.

 

[Gtrjunior]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

^^^Now when you stub your toe there's this weird ring-tone that last for three days.

But it produces an “E” note so you can tune up to the vibration....
Win, Win

 

[Jacew]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

But it produces an “E” note so you can tune up to the vibration....
Win, Win

Titanium produces E note? If true that's pretty interesting tidbit of information.

I now really want to hear how Adieus shovel plays as a musical instrument

 

[Gtrjunior]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

Titanium produces E note? If true that's pretty interesting tidbit of information.

I now really want to hear how Adieus shovel plays as a musical instrument

I think we need a controlled experiment!!

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

There's definitely no point to pay for any special material. But mass is pretty important for good sustain.

It might not be same if you play humbuckers and/or high gain, but with singlecoil strat and floating bridge I want every bit of sustain I can squeeze out of hardware. Especially for notch positions.

And steel block does make a big difference there.

Yeah it sounds different....sustain??
Set up your guitar well and it will behave well.
Unless you have those POS Chinese bridges or other alike let's save a penny with this soft useless "metal"...it will just change alittle soundwise, it will not automaticly sprout more "tone" or what ever! The wood dictates that....and a good setup....and maybe experiment with some different strings if you are overly serious....

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

Callaham Bridge saddles and trem block turned my decent strat into a tone machine.

I can't play anything else in 25.5 scale length that isn't in the 1500ish range that comes close to the feel and vibe.

Then you need more dayum practise yer fickle truck

 

[kramersteen]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

All the components of a guitar have the potential to change the tone overall. If the change is better or worse can only be decided by the owner. Guitars are a very personal thing what works for one won't work for another there for rendering this debate VOID!

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

Yes.

The key word being "different". NOT "better".

Sustain, bustain, mushtain. Gimme a break all of you who think that...first of all, changing a component actually changes sustain significantly enough to even hear. And secondly, that minor increases in sustain is even a good thing.

Bah, humbug. Humbug I say.

 

[Silence Kid]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

I have a Fender Jaguar, and I never thought it didn't have enough sustain. I've never thought any guitar lacked enough sustain to do what I needed it to do.

That said- I've played two guitars that had amazing, notably better sustain than anything else I've ever played; and it was a good thing. You wouldn't notice as much by just playing a note; you would notice most if you bent a note high up on the fretboard and "hung on" to it, it would just refuse to die out. Those two guitars are my G&L F100 , and an EB Music Man JP something or other I should have bought on the spot.

Again it's a nice trick, but not essential to me and secondary to other aspects of a guitar.

 

[Adieu]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

^^^Now when you stub your toe there's this weird ring-tone that last for three days.

Daaaamn guys now that finally explains the ringing headache lol

Its the titanium plate I got put in my head 15 years ago. D'oh....forgot all about that. Although I guess that in itself is a "ringing endorsement" eh?

 

[Adieu]

Re: Has changing a guitar bridge ever truly made the axe sound better?

There's definitely no point to pay for any special material. But mass is pretty important for good sustain.

It might not be same if you play humbuckers and/or high gain, but with singlecoil strat and floating bridge I want every bit of sustain I can squeeze out of hardware. Especially for notch positions.

And steel block does make a big difference there.

Well titanium wont give you amywhere near the mass of brass... hmm i wonder if there are any lead or lead-alloyed trem blocks