Tremelo or no Tremelo?

[TattooedCarrot]

Re: Tremelo or no Tremelo?

Don't use it, don't want it. Not just issues of staying in tune, but you can't change tunings on the fly because the change in string tension affects the trem, your action, and intonation. If you use one (especially a Floyd), your stuck with the tuning you set it up with.

 

[dystrust]

Re: Tremelo or no Tremelo?

I guess I'd have to say Tremolo. I have 4 electrics two hardtails, a vintage trem, and a Kahler. Sometimes I'll be playing one of the hardtails and I'll forget that it doesn't have a trem and reach for the bar. Of the two tremolo guitars I have, I prefer the Kahler by far. I've had Floyds and I find that the Kahler solves pretty much all of the problems mentioned above.

 

[chcjunior]

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I love to listen to someone using a tremelo....but I just don't use it very often. Considering it gets in my way and the fact I use it for a dive bomb every six months or so, I've started sticking to hard tails.

 

[JfromHouston]

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I honestly have no use for a trem. I have a trem on my Jackson and it is just a pain in the ass. I havent changed the strings on that guitar for probably 5 years because it is such a headache. I need to sell it....

 

[Hoss]

Re: Tremelo or no Tremelo?

my i1 has a good trem on it...although i seldomly use it...cuz i'm a hack...

but my statohoss will have a hardtail...just to keep it simple...

 

[\m/(00)\m/]

Re: Tremelo or no Tremelo?

i like trems.

i have 3 guitars, a les paul, a charvel with vintage trem, a charvel with floyd. i dont like the vintage trem but i love the floyd, especially after it's setup perfectly! if ever get a strat with a non floyd rose trem i'd have one of those 2 point trems.

 

[some_dude]

Re: Tremelo or no Tremelo?

Tremolo/tremelo is an incorrect term BTW. Many manufacturers used the term back in the day, and it stuck.

Vibrato : fluctuation in pitch.
So, vibrato bar would be the correct term.

Tremolo is a musical term. On the guitar it refers to a certain picking technique, where you alternate pick a note repeatedly at a very fast speed.
Tremolo is also an electronic effect, which was propably intended to mimic this.

Hope somebody learned something new today

Already knew that, but nobody calls it a vibrato bar, so I'll stick to tremolo, or trem.


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I have two guitars with trems, and one without.

One has a Floyd. Three springs and I leave it floating.

One has a Fender vintage style. After having a Floyd for so long I didn't like it very much, so I blocked it.

The last one's got a TOM and Stoptail.

 

[nuntius]

Re: Tremelo or no Tremelo?

im a hardtail guy, and i set all my trems flush.

i'd like a strat trem though just to have light vibrato on chords (im not really into floydy stuff anymore)

 

[Mr Wolf]

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I like things simple, i like fixed bridges. They do what i want and theyre so little hassle. A friend of mine has an RG and hearing about intonating and tuning his floyd, i wont bother with one! All though after playing a korean wolfgang i fell in love with the neck and i am tempted by a floyd that is not routed to be pulled back on. The way it seems, that way it cuts out alot of hassle involved with a normal floyd, and theres the detuna which adds to the flexibility.

 

[Curly]

Re: Tremelo or no Tremelo?

Tremolo/tremelo is an incorrect term BTW. Many manufacturers used the term back in the day, and it stuck.

Vibrato : fluctuation in pitch.
So, vibrato bar would be the correct term.

Tremolo is a musical term. On the guitar it refers to a certain picking technique, where you alternate pick a note repeatedly at a very fast speed.
Tremolo is also an electronic effect, which was propably intended to mimic this.

Hope somebody learned something new today

actually, as vibrato refers to variation in pitch; tremolo refers to variation in amplitude

the picking technique you refer to is probably staccato

 

[echofinger]

Re: Tremelo or no Tremelo?

I walked in your footsteps Texas.

Had one in for a week, did enough dive bombs for a lifetime.

Still can't get that strangling the girlfriend's cat noise snapping the bar back though...

HARDTAIL OR DIE.

 

[metal101]

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No trem, Unless your i dive master i cant see the use for a trem at least for what i play

 

[korovamilkdud]

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I had a cheap Ibeenhad RG at one point with the fake Floyd Rose...I still have nightmares.:scared:

 

[kill your scene]

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I love Strats, but I prefer hardtails. I've never had a use for trems.

Double locking trems, especially, are nightmares. A Floyd Rose is literally enough to make me dislike a guitar before playing it, no matter what else is has going for it. Seeing a Rose on a nice guitar is kind of like a baseball-sized wart on a supermodel or pair of trucker mudflaps on a Jaguar. It's that bad for me.

Sorry if I sound like a bigot, but I've given double-locking trems a shot and they've always caused more trouble than they're worth.

 

[That90'sGuy]

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After owning strictly hardtail guitars, I want a versatile trem guitar. The trem adds so many elements and tricks to the guitar. In the past, getting one would require lots of issues, but nowadays there are much easier and better made ones (aka the Parker trem, the Wilkinson etc.)

 

[Mincer]

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OK, yes it is a vibrato. And they can be used for more than divebombs. I never do that, and I don't like vintage strat bridges, or floyd roses. I use a wilkenson, and an ernie ball...both work well. I just add some suble vibrato sometimes, never 80's squeals. It is fun to bend into notes, like Holdsworth. Listen to clarinet players how they slide into notes, even horn players. Thats the kind of stuff I like.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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I want a guitar that is a bass, with brewtal überhardcore mega busting destroyerbuckers, that are so tight that no bottom comes through.
And I want a Concretetail.
:blackeye:.......but I am worried....can you recommend one?

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Tremelo or no Tremelo?

I like Floyds and Kahler PROs, but I have and use hardtails or flat lying vintage trems as well. I´m not an überwanker like Rid:fing25:, but I do use them relatively often for subtle effects.

Oh, and even when I don´t use the Floyds, they just stay in tune better

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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Hehe sorry...had a sarcastic moment up there:laugh2:
I love hardtails everybit amuch as trems, and I love drop tunings with bigstrings as well, just chunking out big bad rhythmstuff.
I just never record it, because that would require a band or some drumbeat that had the right feel for it.
:alcoholic

 

[Young Angus]

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I prefer bigson style hardtails but i think a whammy equipped guitar is essential to an arsenal.