I've had a couple guitars fitted with anything from a Wilkinson VS50, to Hipshot contour tremolos to the Fender USA 2 point and the Super V double locking, as well as both the Hipshot tremsetter and Super V maglock.
I've always struggled with keeping floating trems in tune and have spent a stupid amount on upgrades and other bridges. The Super V double locking is great, but a pain in the rear to restring and maintain. I also hate how the fine tuners are placed/positioned.
I've only held onto my Carvin C66 with a hipshot tremolo and tremsetter for the last 2 years and went back to my tech and said lets try this once more.
I told him I wanted the G string to hit 1.5 steps, the B 1 step and E .5 step when the bar is pulled all the way up. I also told him to touch up the nut if anything, at all, stuck,
It's working perfectly fine for the whammy use I do. Bending strings, coming back into tune, pressing down on the bar and coming into chords with proper pitch... tuning stability is just fine.
Lessons learned the hard way...
I've always struggled with keeping floating trems in tune and have spent a stupid amount on upgrades and other bridges. The Super V double locking is great, but a pain in the rear to restring and maintain. I also hate how the fine tuners are placed/positioned.
I've only held onto my Carvin C66 with a hipshot tremolo and tremsetter for the last 2 years and went back to my tech and said lets try this once more.
I told him I wanted the G string to hit 1.5 steps, the B 1 step and E .5 step when the bar is pulled all the way up. I also told him to touch up the nut if anything, at all, stuck,
It's working perfectly fine for the whammy use I do. Bending strings, coming back into tune, pressing down on the bar and coming into chords with proper pitch... tuning stability is just fine.
Lessons learned the hard way...
