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IDMG:
Meanwhile I bought this for less than half what it would have been new:
Patrick:
My good friend Jesse asked me for the reasons why I hate Floyd Rose bridges, and here they are for your reading pleasure.
* I despise setting them up because it's too much of a pain in the ass. I like a challenge, but I hate exercises in futility.
* If you bend a note and play another string as a two-note chord, the un-bent note is going to be flat, because the Floyd Rose will sympathetically relax the tension on the other strings if one string is bent (because the bent string is more tense).
* They're clunky as fuck (heavy).
* If you install a Floyd Rose on a guitar that didn't already have one, you have to do a lot of cutting, and if there's one thing that pisses me off, it's people who cut into priceless guitars like a '59 Les Paul (yep, I've seen it) or a '52 Telecaster (yep, seen that too).
* Only shredder faggots use Floyd Rose bridges: Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Joe Satriani, Buckethead, Herman Li of Dragonforce, the list goes on and on.
* Impossible to intonate.
* There's no such thing as a tasteful vibrato when using a Floyd Rose, it's made specifically so that you dive-bomb the fuck out of notes and then rollercoaster back up into them.
* The tuning system is the 6 twistable pegs on the bridge, and if you want to go from standard tuning to drop D, you have to unscrew the screw that holds that low E string using an allen key, tune it down to drop D, then RETUNE EVERY FUCKING STRING ON THE GUITAR over and over and over and over and over until they're all in tune again (the reason for retuning all the other strings was covered in Reason #2).
* The break angle of the bridge (where the string is bent over the saddle) is relatively acute (mathematically speaking, it's an obtuse angle, but it is more acute than, say, the break angle of any fixed bridge), so when you divebomb a note and then come back up, you're straightening and flexing a string over and over, and that leads to frequent string breakage.
* Those god damn tremolo arms are always swinging around and I can never fucking find them.
* All that fucking business on the bridge makes it real scratchy when I try to palm mute.
TheCollyWolly:
Floyds fucking suck. I'm all about dem Bigsbys though. They're everything a Floyd isn't. Also a giant hunk of metal on the back of a guitar helps when it tends to neckdive (*cough* goddammitgibson *cough*).
Kwaping:
+1 Bigsby fan here.
Patrick:
+1 here too. I want to get the model they have where you don't have to slice and dice your geet in order to install it, because I want one for my hollowbody. I wonder how that will affect my behind-the-bridge playing though... I love that about the trapeze tailpiece on my hollowbody.
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