Ugh, Floating Trem

[dave74]

I love watching Rick Rozz work the bar on that Ultimate Revenge 2.

 

[devastone]

Or is it worthwhile, long-term, to leave it as is and give myself the chance to develop a style on it? I love so much about this instrument and selling it is not in the playbook.

I tried the Tremol-no and it's not worth it.

This is what you want - https://reverb.com/item/26985931-tre...4e9u9xg_BrhiFY

You will gain stability, but lose the ability to flutter. You also can't switch tunings on the fly unless you tighten so much it's basically a hard stop.

I'll look around and see if I have something at the house and catch up with you next week.

 

[alex1fly]

I tried the Tremol-no and it's not worth it.

This is what you want - https://reverb.com/item/26985931-tre...4e9u9xg_BrhiFY

You will gain stability, but lose the ability to flutter. You also can't switch tunings on the fly unless you tighten so much it's basically a hard stop.

I'll look around and see if I have something at the house and catch up with you next week.

Thanks for linking the part. Good to know about this kind of thing!

I went through this debate myself recently. My decision was to set the floyd to down only, and I chose to use a floyd rose trem stop. This is a simple bracket in the rear cavity with a bolt pushing against the block. Nice, simple and reversible (save for two screw holes for the bracket).

For me, the loss of ability to pull up on the floyd, and the loss of the feel of a floating trem was lesser than gaining simpler tuning, not worrying about being heavy handed and string bends behaving more like on a fixed bridge. Also, down only was good enough for Eddie!

In the band, most of the playing is inevitably rhythm, and whilst I of course do leads, having a floating floyd is less important against the benefits. That said I fully appreciate if I work on things and adopt new habits I can of course learn to work with a floating floyd - in which case I'll remove the bolt/adjust springs and off I go. I am happy with how things currently are though. Floating does allow some nice stuff so I won't rule it out in future.

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I may do this as well. Nice thing is that it's reversible, just two screw holes in the cavity.

 

[devastone]

The WD Tremolo Stabilizer works well too, it is a pain to set up, but once it's set it works. You lose flutter, but it's stable.

I have one of those, a Rockinger Black Box, and a Tone Vise like I linked to. The Black Box and the Tone Vise (or whatever it's called now) work the same. Let me know if you want to try one.

 

[Tone Vise]

I've come up with the ultimate tremolo stabilizing device. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfmXoI9F3H4