Anyone ever get Floyd Rose fatigue?

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Over the many years of playing Floyd equipped guitars, I might have reached my limit. I am officially sick of dealing with them.

But, I love the rock steady tuning I can’t get anywhere else.

What to do?!
 
can't handle them - love their best-in-class performance, they truly are the best, amazing units - but goddamn can NOT deal with the string gauge changeover or the palm-mute worrbles or the picking hand cheese grater skin...

I'll just stick with my Lesters - BUT of all the trems out there, it is FR that are - IMHO - the very fkn best
 
The more I play and research the more I reckon the best gameplan for a Floyd is a blocked NFT with a slick nut and locking tuners.
 
I went away from them for some years in last 5 or so because of string changing hassles at gigs. Breaking strings during gigs with them is never fun. I also hate blocked trems too. But - I did recently order a floyd equipped guitar from Chubtone so I guess I will be back ha.

I get it - you get tired of the hassles but they are what they are I suppose
 
I have 12 guitars with floyds. All are blocked so dive only. Very easy to change strings and when string breaks ......all the other strings stay in tune. I have broken 2 high e strings in 8 years. I used to break them more often when I played 9's but since I changed to 10's it is very rare.
 
SQUAREHEAD said:
Block it so it only goes down,
I would have absolutely no Floyd Rose guitars if I hadn’t started doing this three decades ago.
For me, it is the ultimate solution, plus you have more solid contact with better sustain.
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This. 30+ years of playing out has taught me one thing-the most important aspect of my gear is tuning stability. Period. If I don’t have that, it doesn’t matter how great my amp/cabs sound….my night will turn into a shitshow of tuning issues.
Floyd for the win.
If you don’t play out then you can have patience and deal with your out of tune guitar at your leisure.
 
I left trem systems behind entirely. I couldn't handle the tuning instability (part of this is because I strum and grip the neck like I'm trying to strangle it since I guess I'm a caveman), and at the end of the day, I wasn't doing anything particular creative with a whammy. I went whole-hog in the other direction, and after going entirely hardtail for a few years, now I'm sold on Evertunes and my past three guitars have had Evertunes.
 
You guys talk about blocking it so it only goes down, I must be missing something. The #1 problem I have with the FR is that when I bend a string, all the others go flat. Blocking it so it only goes down does nothing for this. Is this not a problem for you guys..?

My band is getting ready to start recording our first album, and my sound engineer told me not to bring a FR guitar for tracking rhythms. :ROFLMAO:
 
GJgo said:
You guys talk about blocking it so it only goes down, I must be missing something. The #1 problem I have with the FR is that when I bend a string, all the others go flat. Blocking it so it only goes down does nothing for this. Is this not a problem for you guys..?

My band is getting ready to start recording our first album, and my sound engineer told me not to bring a FR guitar for tracking rhythms. :ROFLMAO:
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When blocking, just tighten the springs enough so the bridge doesn't move from the block when bending strings.
 
my Les Paul is the only guitar I won that does not have a Floyd.
Feels like home to me, I love em.
I just installed a "trem-endous" trem stabilizer on my Socal with a D-Tuna (just got a Tone Vise pitch shifter yesterday, going to try that too)
it works well but if I really want the tuning to stay when I drop D I can't set it for any pull up. that's not how it's advertised so kind of a disappointment , I'm going to mess with it some more I just need some warble , not Reb beach pull, if I can get that and stay in tune with drop d i will be psyched.
 
GJgo said:
You guys talk about blocking it so it only goes down, I must be missing something. The #1 problem I have with the FR is that when I bend a string, all the others go flat. Blocking it so it only goes down does nothing for this. Is this not a problem for you guys..?

My band is getting ready to start recording our first album, and my sound engineer told me not to bring a FR guitar for tracking rhythms. :ROFLMAO:
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You're not missing anything!!
To solve your problem with the bends you need to put a block behind the floyd block...to solve the string break problem you need to put a block in front of the food block. I have two blocks in so it's essentially a hardtail.
 
GJgo said:
You guys talk about blocking it so it only goes down, I must be missing something. The #1 problem I have with the FR is that when I bend a string, all the others go flat. Blocking it so it only goes down does nothing for this. Is this not a problem for you guys..?

My band is getting ready to start recording our first album, and my sound engineer told me not to bring a FR guitar for tracking rhythms. :ROFLMAO:
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Funny thing is, i have a 2001 ESP custom shop with a floyd that maybe needs a tuning once every three months and i play that thing almost daily. How is your tuning stability on your Kahler? I've always heard those things are rock solid.
 
I have all my FR guitars blocked. Like Dave said, block them, tighten the springs about a turn and a half (or more of you like), and they are rock solid. I love the feel of a FR equipped guitar under my hand, along with the tone, which is why I stick with them even though I don’t really use the trem.
 
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