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Originally Posted by ragser
I came by this comment on justinguitar:
"DON'T BUY AN ELECTRIC WITH A FLOATING TREMELO WHEN YOU START OUT.
They are a total pain in the butt, very hard to tune and a real pain to change strings. The cheaper ones go out of tune a lot too. If you spend more, and know why you want one, then fine, but locking tremelos on budget instruments are usually rubbish."
My question is. What is a floating tremolo? I never heard it.
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Just to address the original comments:
I have a Jackson DK2 which has a licensed Floyd Rose. Changing strings is not an issue, you just need to do them one at a time and not all at once or the bridge will drop inside the body (not a good situation but recoverable).
I don't have any more tuning issues than on my Ibanez which has a normal trem (sorry, can't think of the term).
I do chase the high E but not a big deal, when I run out of trem screw I unlock the top and get back to zero.
Now to the nasty bits:
Alternate tuning is a PIA, go drop D and the other strings go out of tune. I'm getting a Tremo-no to turn it into a hard tail specifically for this reason.
Sustain suffers because the trem counter acts the string vibration.
So, in a nut shell, if you feel you want to do a lot of whammy stuff you may want a floater but it really comes down to preference.
Off to practice (Metallica - Sanitarium)
Wayne