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Dane

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Height of Stop-Tail on an SG
« on: September 20, 2007, 08:28:13 AM »
I used to flush my stoptail-piece all the way down onto the body of my SG all this while. I realise the sound is very warm infact too warm especially for the neck pup. Doing this also cause the strings to touch the TOM bridge on it's way down to the stoptail.

So recently i decided to raise my stoptail-piece so it clears the TOM bridge without touching it. Alot of my friends told me that by doing this, it will lose a lot of tone. But what i got from raising the stop-tail was more clarity and bite. I can now strum with the neck pups without sounding muddy.

Could the fact that my string touched the TOM Bridge cause it to lose the clarity and bite??

So do any of you experience the same thing on your SG?? :D

(PS: I find it different case for a Les Paul as the string do not touch the TOM bridge when the stop-tail is flushed down to the body)
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Height of Stop-Tail on an SG
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2007, 09:34:53 AM »
As an alternative you can wrap the strings around the stop tail.

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Height of Stop-Tail on an SG
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2007, 12:13:55 PM »
What you are actually changing is the downward pressure on the bridge, because the break angle is now less there is a bit less downward pressure.  i feel its the difference in pressure that has altered the sound rather than the fact it was touching the bridge.  Whe it touches the bridge it may cause tuning problems when it snags but i cant see that affecting tone much
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Dane

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Height of Stop-Tail on an SG
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2007, 12:52:19 PM »
Well i tried wrapping the strings around the stop-tail but lose abit of bite. I have a friend who was doing demo for Gibson during WOMAD (a music festival). There is a whole line of Gibon from Slash LP custom-shop, ES335 to SG 61RI. All guitars were prof. set-up so that people can have a go at the guitar. My friend was lucky enough to have those babies with him. He noticed that all the stop-tail from each type of guitar was differently set-up. He noticed among the LP, ES335 and SG, the SG stop-tail was set the highest. I believe this is due to the flat body of an SG and the neck angle. :)

Technically, there are folks that say the break angle from bridge to tailpiece should be the same as over the nut.
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