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bareknucklehead

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Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« on: March 31, 2009, 05:05:39 PM »
What's up guys. I wanna know what's your favorite floating tremolo and why? What I mean is what features you like the most like the materials they are built with, the tuning stability and intonation, stringing them, etc.

I'm asking this because I'm going to get a custom guitar and I would like a floating tremolo on it (for the occasional dive bombing), and I want the best in terms of stability and reliability. (too bad that parker and steinberger don't sell their trem parts)

Cheers.

Also, I've heard that most of the floating trems have a "knife" type of structure while others have a "ball bearing" mechanism (or something like that) which is supposed to be better in the long term, so if you could also clarify that for me I would appreciate it.
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Re: Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2009, 05:06:50 PM »
Blocked ones.
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Re: Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2009, 05:28:02 PM »
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Re: Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2009, 06:08:09 PM »
Ibanez ZR - great tone, not much loss of sustain, relatively easy to set up, if you break a string guitar doesn't go out of tune, has built-in d-tuner, smooth ball-bearing action (rather than knife edge), very likeable tremolo!
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Re: Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2009, 06:13:49 PM »
If you're getting a custom guitar I presume you've already owned/played quite a few guitars before.
What did and didn't you like about the trems on those?
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Re: Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2009, 06:28:20 PM »
Locking trem - Floyd Rose original
Non locking - Hipshot tremolo
Vintage type - BKP strat trem
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Re: Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2009, 06:32:59 PM »
Wait, yeah, the ZRs take away a lot of the headache of trems while still leaving you with a trem. Good stuff. Thats my vote.
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Re: Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2009, 06:56:27 PM »
Quote from: indysmith on March 31, 2009, 06:08:09 PM
Ibanez ZR - great tone, not much loss of sustain, relatively easy to set up, if you break a string guitar doesn't go out of tune, has built-in d-tuner, smooth ball-bearing action (rather than knife edge), very likeable tremolo!

+1! :)
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Re: Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2009, 07:11:50 PM »
Vigier/Schaller 2010 trem, pivots on ball bearings, smooth and wont wear easy.
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Re: Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2009, 07:39:04 PM »
I'm not a big fan of trems, but I do like the feel of the Kahler.

I would like to try the Vigier and Ibanez ZR.
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Re: Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2009, 07:49:07 PM »
Quote from: indysmith on March 31, 2009, 06:08:09 PM
Ibanez ZR - great tone, not much loss of sustain, relatively easy to set up, if you break a string guitar doesn't go out of tune, has built-in d-tuner, smooth ball-bearing action (rather than knife edge), very likeable tremolo!

since the ZR trems ain't on a knife edge can you still do flutters on them?
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Re: Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2009, 07:51:36 PM »
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Re: Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2009, 07:58:05 PM »
Quote from: dheim on March 31, 2009, 07:51:36 PM
Quote from: MDV on March 31, 2009, 05:06:50 PM
Blocked ones.

+999

 :lol:

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I screw the trem in so jacks into the body, lift it to level, and lock that down. Permanently. Get more resonance out of the guitar that way.
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Re: Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2009, 07:58:26 PM »
Quote from: JDC on March 31, 2009, 07:49:07 PM
Quote from: indysmith on March 31, 2009, 06:08:09 PM
Ibanez ZR - great tone, not much loss of sustain, relatively easy to set up, if you break a string guitar doesn't go out of tune, has built-in d-tuner, smooth ball-bearing action (rather than knife edge), very likeable tremolo!

since the ZR trems ain't on a knife edge can you still do flutters on them?

i don't use mine (but unlike the other floating units i own/ed i've there was no need to block it...), but as far as i know they're a lot less "floating" than floyds... they can be set on very rigid setting or can be left highly mobile, though.
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Re: Your Favorite Floating Tremolo
« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2009, 08:00:48 PM »
Quote from: MDV on March 31, 2009, 07:58:05 PM
Quote from: dheim on March 31, 2009, 07:51:36 PM
Quote from: MDV on March 31, 2009, 05:06:50 PM
Blocked ones.

+999

 :lol:

:drink:

These are among my favourite secret weapons



I screw the trem in so jacks into the body, lift it to level, and lock that down. Permanently. Get more resonance out of the guitar that way.

 :o
had i known before...
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