[ne1roc]

I'm just saying the trem on my strat stays in tune perfectly....I can dive the trem to where the srings flop around, release the arm and it's in perfect tune like a floyd. No need for all the locking stuff, honestly. The trem on my Deluxe strat has only 2 pivot posts like a floyd and admitedly stayed in tune very well but not perfect in stock form. I spent probably 10 hours in all of adjustments and tricks to get it totaly stable. Recently I tweeked an older strat with the 6 post trem and after about 2 hours I gave up on getting it perfect, it just wont do it, the tweeks helped alot and it became usable, the owner was ecstatic. If that strat where mine I would probably have spent more time on it, I'm sure I could have goten more stability out of it.

The older 6 pivot strat trems have way more sustain than my 2 pivot deluxe, I'm not sure wich I like best....perfect pitch with less sustain or great sustain and tuning problems....ugh!

Sorry, I don't believe you. If you have the answer for keeping a Strat trem in tune after divebombing, you would be selling that info but most likely Eddie would have figured it out first.

Floyd Rose is the bomb! :rockon2:

 

[ne1roc]

I disagree, no trem can match the stability, agility, and quality of a Petrucci Ernie Ball Music Man trem.

Well this is great to hear!!! I will be ordering a Petrucci in the next month or two!!!!! I need a tremolo that will really hold out like a floyd rose. Are you 100% serious? I'm a big EVH/Vai fan so this would be helpfull info!! :banana:

 

[ne1roc]

Changing strings, intonating and tuning on a FLoyd is a pain in the butt, however on the Petrucci, it's like making love on a beech, with the waves brushing up against you...HEAVEN.

Ha, thats funny!

I was originally going for the 7 string but after trying one out, I realized I have have enough problems with 6 strings. Is the piezo equipt trem the same? Is that what you have?

 

[ne1roc]

I went to The Arts Music Store where I will be purchasing my JPMM. Talking to one of the guys there who has two JP's, and is a JP mega fan, his opinion is, while the JP trem is awesome and does everything he needs it to do, he feels that nothing holds it's tuning like an FR.

Which trem is better is a matter of personal taste. Like every other piece of gear that exists for us guitarist!

:rockon:

 

[ne1roc]

I have no problems with the FR except:
1. Bridge flutter making adjacent string bends require multiple bends, all of differing degrees just to keep it in tune.
2. Biggest PITA to setup and maintain.
3. Break a string and put it down to pickup your spare.
4. Love taking a guitar string, clamping it in metal blocks at one end and then parking a Buick on two posts in the middle of the guitar. This is Tone? Not to me.
5. Looks like shite.
My Musicmans and PRSi stay in tune equally as well (so do my trad. Fender trems; setup is everything) and suffer from none of the above. One of these days I will meet Floyd in person and there will be an assault charge involved. Yeah, I fix guitars for a living...-Eric.

Damn Eric. I'm bringing in my Wolfgangs and a Kramer Baretta, all with Floyds for a set up. None

 

[ne1roc]

Hey ne1roc, just because I PERSONALLY don't like floyds never interferes with my ability to do great work on customer's guitars.

Which is why I am bringing all my guitars over to you! I hope I didn't offend you? I was kinda poking fun at your dislike for Mr. Floyd!

 

[ne1roc]

I've been trying to avoid this part of the thread but when you think about it, if you had to intonate between sets, I would think that there is an issue with either the tremolo or the guitar? No?