Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

[rinse_master]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

I like floyds, I just don't like the setting up/tuning issues, and as I don't use it, it is blocked (for now at least)

 

[SABOTAGE]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

Fess up, Foo. It's time. Spill it!

I dont like the loss of sustain and low end from the floating trems. I have did a A/B sound test on a 8 track one version with it floating and one withoutr, the track with the bridge resting on a piece of wood so you can only dive in pitch was a stronger,more sustaining tone overall and had a lot more low end girth
I also use a D-tuna so i have to have mine set to dive only to use this device
:laugh2:

 

[inter]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

When your jumpin/moving around!!!

Not so bad for lead passages, but chords can get a sudden 'waver'.

 

[NecroPolo]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

My beef with floating bridges? They look crap on a Les Paul! :nana:

The major flaw for me is the existence of the whammy bar itself. I'm quite a dynamic player. Back in 1993 when I bought a trem axe, when playing in my room it wasn't a problem but onstage when I almost broke my lil'finger after the 10th time stroked the whammy bar I just got angry, removed and threw it into the crowd. The other thing I did not like is the thing that after a string breaks all the strings go out of tune. I ended up screwing the trem block directly to the bodywood so it's fixed now. :dance:

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

When your jumpin/moving around!!!

Not so bad for lead passages, but chords can get a sudden 'waver'.

This is usually a string guage issue more than a trem issue. But a Floating trem WILL compound it, that´s true

 

[guitarshredder]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

I have no beefs with floating bridges whatsoever, I´m a proud "whammy Wanker".

+2

 

[jfist]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

whazzup? i just hit the SD skids and have a question already. as this seems to be trem talk, i have a question- how do you make a floating trem more smooth as far as play goes? im down to 2 springs now and the bitch is just as stiff as it was the day i bought the guitar. ilet the claw out, took it in, used all 5 springs, used only 2 (that im using now) and the play is still stiffy.
any ideas?
regards,
jfist

 

[TheProphet]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

I see no problem with them.

But for the music I play and my personal playing style they interfere too much.


The most I could put up with would be a non recessed/non floating floyd.

Does the Prophet use the Whammy ... never

Does the Prophet use multiple tunings on the fly ... usually


Let's face it I'm a lazy guy who doesn't like hassles, and until I get my own personal roadie (Hiring all female redhead applicants between the ages of 20-25 - little pay but good benefits) I don't see myself using a Floyd in the near future

 

[twoheadedboy]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

I can't stand floating trems anymore. After a while, i started to find that hardtail guitars just feel so much more lively and resonant, and also more solid at the same time. I tend to feel much more connected to an instrument that I can feel singing along with the strings.

 

[Mr Wolf]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

Friends have them, seem so much effort! Im happy with a hard tail. May eventually get a trem'd guitar, but doubt wud be full floating.

 

[Nite_Maresz_25]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

Use too many different tunings, and I don't use a trem anyway

same here!

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

I Love a floating tremolo,except when I break a string(Thank God this isn't often)...

John

 

[rspst14]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

I love trems, but only when they're setup for downward use of the bar only. My big complaint is the way the rest of the strings go out of tune when one string is bent. That, and the tuning hassles of going back and forth trying to dial in each string. And of course, I believe it's tonally beneficial to have the trem resting against the body. If I want to raise the pitch, I'll bend the string. So for my purposes, I see no need to have the trem floating.

Ryan

 

[Fresh_Start]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

If I only had one Strat, it would be hardtail or have the tremelo blocked/locked down because of tuning hassles, bending issues, and most of the other things mentioned earlier.

The second Strat needs a floating tremelo (Gotoh-Wilkinson set up properly counts, doesn't it?) with locking tuners and a Graph Tech nut.

Chip

 

[Arkitkt]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

My beef with floating bridges? They look crap on a Les Paul! :nana:

They look crap period. :fing25: :fing25:

Anyone remember the first Ibanez JEMs with that "bridge" type piece of steel going over the trem that you could rest your hand on while playing without the guitar sounding sharp? Later JEMs didn't have it because Floyd Rose intervened.



Edit: just found a picture of that thing. Not a bad idea IMO.

Still looks like crap, though :fing25: :fing25:

 

[big_black]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

I have no need for one. Go hardtail, or GO HOME!

 

[lex666]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

I like to cover a lot of styles, so a floating trem is a must have for me. I dont seem to have the tuning and stability problems everyone mentions here. Even the cheap FR licensed copy on my KH502 stays in tune just fine. I think with the proper set up, these are non issues. I can dive and pull all day long and it stays in tune. While it does take a little more time to tune and set it up initially, the pays offs are well worth it.

 

[Chi3f]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

i love floyd trems. like some of you said i use alot of differen't tunings as well. However I got a 7 string now so i really have no need for any other tunings so my floating trem works fine for me.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

The only floating trem I have is on the strat.
The Floyds are both down only motion.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Your Beef With Floating Bridges?

I have no beef w/floating Floyds.
CHEAP FR ripoffs will affect the tone, not an original.

So stop yer whinin' and learn to play with more control!!!! :evil: