How many fender Strat players here use a floating trem or Do you set your bridge flat against the body so you can only dip down and not bend sharp?
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Joined: Dec 06, 2008 Posts: 96 Denver |
How many fender Strat players here use a floating trem or Do you set your bridge flat against the body so you can only dip down and not bend sharp? Last edited: Sep 24, 2019 01:19:26 |
Joined: Jul 16, 2015 Posts: 246 ID |
All of mine are floated with about a 1/2 step of "up". It allows me to be a little more expressive with the term. —-John The Seatopians 2017- |
Joined: Apr 13, 2018 Posts: 1345 New Orleans |
Flat —Daniel Deathtide |
Joined: Aug 22, 2010 Posts: 1013 Portland, Oregon with Insanitizers |
Floating because I get more precise control. —Insanitizers! http://www.insanitizers.com |
Joined: Dec 11, 2013 Posts: 2532 Akron, Ohio |
Slight relief from the deck. —The Kahuna Kings https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kahuna-Kings/459752090818447 |
Joined: Nov 08, 2017 Posts: 357 San Francisco Bay Area |
Floating slightly. —If I'd stop buying old guitars to fix, I might actually learn to play. |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 10323 southern Michigan |
Always floating for that Hank Marvin vibrato. —Ivan |
Joined: Jan 09, 2014 Posts: 602 Vancouver BC |
When I have decked my Strats, I felt like I was only getting 85% of the tonal potential of them. And that's not event counting the bonus of the better vibrato arm responsiveness when it floats. —Lorne |
Joined: Feb 22, 2016 Posts: 439 California |
This's a surf guitar forum, not a blues forum... Floating, of course! |
Joined: Dec 08, 2007 Posts: 1294 |
I set mine up so that when I pull the bar all the way back I get a minor third on the low E and G strings, a whole step on the A, D, and B, and a half step on the high E. It makes pulling up on the tremolo very predictable, and allows for more precise vibtato use. https://www.facebook.com/coffindagger Last edited: Sep 25, 2019 07:53:21 |
Joined: Apr 05, 2006 Posts: 1534 Bethlehem, GA |
Floating slightly. —Jack The Mariners (1964-68, 1996-2005) |
Joined: Feb 02, 2008 Posts: 4129 Not One-Sawn, but Two-Sawn . . . AZ. |
I used to deck the tremolo when I had Strats, but 15 years of Bigsby equipped Gretsch have changed my point of view. For me, the best use of a trem is a subtle decrease in pitch. —The artist formerly known as: Synchro When Surf Guitar is outlawed only outlaws will play Surf Guitar. |
Joined: Dec 11, 2013 Posts: 2532 Akron, Ohio |
One consideration in all this is how many springs you are running. I run 5. I wouldn't be able to use the trem if it was decked. I set the tension of the springs to my liking which gives me about 1\16th" float. I may be wrong but I believe 5 springs improves tone and ring. Also, no backing plate. —The Kahuna Kings https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kahuna-Kings/459752090818447 |
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Slightly floating.I like being able to "pull sharp" as well as "bend flat". —Deal with reality, or reality will deal with you. |
Joined: Jul 05, 2006 Posts: 264 Waco Texas |
Floating to specs —2012-2013: FILTHY POLAROIDS |
Joined: Mar 14, 2006 Posts: 2145 Kiev, Ukraine |
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 1054 Chicago IL. |
Flat. "as he stepped into the stealthy night air... little did he know the fire escape was not there" https://www.facebook.com/reluctantaquanauts/ |
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Gotta float it for that original surf sound! |
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If you wanna surf, it's gotta float... |
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I want an expressive trem, but I never pull sharp and I want tuning stability. So I use the smallest amount of spring tension necessary to get it flat against the body. My Strats' string gauges vary from 11-48 to 13-56, so I need various amount of springs and tension to get that result. —The Delverados - surf, punk, trash, twang - Facebook |