tremolos...

see you auntie · Unread post by **see you auntie** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 8:13 pm

For the few of you who use electrics (and just so happen to know about tremolos)...

Is a blocked tremolo going to have the same sustain/playability as a guitar with a fixed bridge? Reason I'm asking is because a guitar I am interested has a tremolo, but I have no reason to use it...so I would keep it blocked. Would this be more troublesome than a fixed bridge? Any comments are always appreciated.

Pickles · Unread post by **Pickles** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 8:36 pm

i had a few choices while looking for my godin.

truth be told, electric guitar plays IN GENERAL use tremolos 15% of the time. ive never had to use one. i have a string-through body bridge, which has the most sustain out of any bridge.

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 9:13 pm

in my experience, tremolo bridges make the guitar de-tune very easily...

Pickles · Unread post by **Pickles** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 9:14 pm

edit nm

saleen · Unread post by **saleen** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:54 am

the quick reply is sick!!!!

uhhh, I sport my tremelo every once in a while, as long as it is a quality guitar and you don't jump up and down with it all the time you should be fine.

QuattroDore · Unread post by **QuattroDore** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 3:55 am

I've never had a problem with tuning with my strat's trem, unless you do a Van Halen esque dive bomb. Back when it came with the floating bridge, tuning was a bitch.

as far as sustain goes, the fixed bridges are better, without a doubt. Its nice to have the option of the bar vibrato though. More songs may use it than you realize.

Go Dores!

geekmug · Unread post by **geekmug** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:55 pm

Another thing to realize, is that having a tremolo bridge means that when you bend a pitch.. the bridge will move. pulling one string sharp will pull all the other strings flat.. so you can't, say, play play an open E on the bottom and solo over it and bend a pitch without the open E going flat. I never use the tremolo with the bar, but I definitly use it by bending strings and such.. also, it creates a slightly different feel to playing as opposed to dropping it down or a fixed.

gcom007 · Unread post by **gcom007** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:59 pm

see you auntie wrote:For the few of you who use electrics (and just so happen to know about tremolos)...

Is a blocked tremolo going to have the same sustain/playability as a guitar with a fixed bridge? Reason I'm asking is because a guitar I am interested has a tremolo, but I have no reason to use it...so I would keep it blocked. Would this be more troublesome than a fixed bridge? Any comments are always appreciated.

I just use 5 springs on my strat and I don't even need a block at that point...but for any custom guitar I'd get (like the eventual custom shop strat I'll have made...) I'll have a hard tail bridge installed.

gcom007 · Unread post by **gcom007** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 12:59 pm

geekmug wrote:Another thing to realize, is that having a tremolo bridge means that when you bend a pitch.. the bridge will move. pulling one string sharp will pull all the other strings flat.. so you can't, say, play play an open E on the bottom and solo over it and bend a pitch without the open E going flat. I never use the tremolo with the bar, but I definitly use it by bending strings and such.. also, it creates a slightly different feel to playing as opposed to dropping it down or a fixed.

not if it's blocked or heavily springed down.

gcom007 · Unread post by **gcom007** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 1:00 pm

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