Yesterday being a string changing / intonation setting day, today I decided to mess around with my guitar's bridge. My guitar is a funny thing, but it allows something cool (or not, depending on your veiw 
) to be set. Basically, I set up the bridge to be floating so it can be converted back to a fixed bridge by the press of a button (Makes me sound like some techy, but it was very easy to do).
Now I've always played with a fixed bridge before now (Abielt the occational wobble) and have avoided floyd roses like the plague (The whole tuning thing looked to get in the way of the playing *waits for the flaming*). Suddenly being able to drop the strings until they were slack and have them come up almost perfectly intune, not to mention pulling the bridge up, is availible.
And its ridiculous fun. The amount of times I've picked a harmonic and pulled up then down dive bomb style must be in its 100's
Well, its not a locking trem so the tuning derails after 10 or so minutes but of course being able to change back quickly to a fixed bridge to tune doesnt make it a problem (tuning in floating damages the bridge permenantly, not sure if all guitars suffer the same fate!). Oh and just to kick you looking trem people in the teeth, I can set any tuning I want to floating with absolute ease. No Drop D add on required!
So yeah just saying its worth messing around with your guitar, even to try something new. I'm sure I'll be getting tierd of the alien ray gun vibes soon
Has anyone else tried something similar? How do people like their bridges? I'd be interested to hear.
) to be set. Basically, I set up the bridge to be floating so it can be converted back to a fixed bridge by the press of a button (Makes me sound like some techy, but it was very easy to do).Now I've always played with a fixed bridge before now (Abielt the occational wobble) and have avoided floyd roses like the plague (The whole tuning thing looked to get in the way of the playing *waits for the flaming*). Suddenly being able to drop the strings until they were slack and have them come up almost perfectly intune, not to mention pulling the bridge up, is availible.
And its ridiculous fun. The amount of times I've picked a harmonic and pulled up then down dive bomb style must be in its 100's
Well, its not a locking trem so the tuning derails after 10 or so minutes but of course being able to change back quickly to a fixed bridge to tune doesnt make it a problem (tuning in floating damages the bridge permenantly, not sure if all guitars suffer the same fate!). Oh and just to kick you looking trem people in the teeth, I can set any tuning I want to floating with absolute ease. No Drop D add on required!So yeah just saying its worth messing around with your guitar, even to try something new. I'm sure I'll be getting tierd of the alien ray gun vibes soon
Has anyone else tried something similar? How do people like their bridges? I'd be interested to hear.
