Guitar wont hold tuning....

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Just received it back today from a local guitar shop who I always use.

I asked for Drop C tuning so they reccomended 'Ernie Ball not even slinky strings', so I played the first three strings "ok that sounds odd"

Checked the tuning and its out straight away, so I try to tune it up... twice, everytime I tune one string another is out.

I'm obviously going to take it back tomorrow and say wtf, but does anyone know why its like this?

Its an ESP M400 btw.
 
you need to wear/stretch in the strings whilst the trem is blocked before you get any chance of keeping the correct tuning.

tuning to dropD is no hassle at all with "normal" strings, unless you don't know how the floyd rose works properly

ok I shall go block my tremelo and wear/stretch the strings.

lols.

edit: meh, they tuned it to C instead of DropC :(
 
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The joys of floating trems! Fixed bridges all the way for me, I had years of quibbles with Floyd style trems. Bleh.

Hope you get sorted anyhow. Do like I have on my Washburn, block the trem up with a couple of pieces of wood :D

Well it will be kept with the same gauge strings from now (12-56) :D So nextime I'm going to go off guides on youtube and try it myself.

I took it back today and he's gonna change it for me.

But yea I wish I had got the NT version although it doesn't look quite as nice and its £50 more :confused:
 
The joys of floating trems! Fixed bridges all the way for me, I had years of quibbles with Floyd style trems. Bleh.

Hope you get sorted anyhow. Do like I have on my Washburn, block the trem up with a couple of pieces of wood :D

haha got it back today, im a moron for not trying it in the shop.

The bottom string is now G, either hes crap or he misheard me when I said CGCFAD. I havent touched the pegs yet, but what do I do to get that string to C without borking the whole lot?
 
I sorted it myself with a little patience and some youtubing :)

Stretched the strings a bit and just tuned it up another 3 times, finally using the fine tuners and the bridge actually came level, where before it was tilted back a fraction.

cheers.
 
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