To Floyd...... or not to Floyd....

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I pretty much can't use a Floyd with the bar attached, my right hand pinky smacks against the bar. And floating floyds? Forget it. I can play flush mounted floyds like those on Charvels or Ernie Balls but I'd leave the bar off, and block off the bridge.
 
IMO a super strat gotta have a floyd...set it up right, properly stretch new strings and it never goes out of tune......keeping a hardtail setup has it's own maintenance to keep stable tuning. just depends on the guitar...if it's not a floyded guitar, then a les paul is the only option for me. Floyded or Les....nothing more
 
Super strats with a floating floyd all day for me. If setup well then tone is not an issue, especially when you factor in your pickups, body wood, neck and fretboard choices, etc...no reason you can't find a nice mix of those options that add up to killer tone/sustain with a floyd.
 
Most of my guitars have Floyds. If I have a trem, I don't half-ass it. I want the best. I am not a big trem player though so most of the time it just gives me good tuning stability. I only have on actual floating Floyd - most of mine are too old to have the back route so are fitted like a strat trem with just a little pull up or set up to have none.

The last few years, I have purchased a number parts to build up some hardtail guitars. I'm currently getting them put together and set up.
 
The issue isn't sustain in general. I've noticed that guitars with a tremolo seem to have more obvious deadspots. It's just not a Floyd issue. Guitars with Floyds can sustain most notes very very well. But there always seem to be one or two spots on the board (usually the same note) that just die. It happens with hardtails too, but my experience has been that it's more dramatic with tremolo guitars.
 
Love me some Floyd.

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Floyd for sure. I don't use the actual bar much I just prefer the tuning stability and I'm just use to it I guess. I have a few guitars without them but I prefer a guitar with them.
 
ok....most of my stuff is non-floyd. I have this one Charvel tho, and it plays like frickin' magic. Tone has always been fine w\a shit-ton of gain, a little thin at times. I bought the brass L block and trem stop from FU Tone. $50, what the hell, give it a shot, right? HOLY SHIT. Game changer for me. Trem stop let me put a d-tuna on and makes string changes waaaaaay easier (I don't pull up on the bar). The block has some legit mojo, more sustain, and it just sounds.....fuller? Rounder? Hard to describe but the "thin" sound I associate with a Floyd is gone.

Just FYI, someone else may have a different opinion, but it changed my Charvel from a guitar that is fun to play but doesn't make it out of the bedroom to a regular weapon in the gig arsenal.
 
Mailman1971":mcfomvhz said:
Yes. Brass blocks are in all my guitars.
Makes em 'clang!!' :D
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Yes yes, must have the big ass brass
I put this clip in the Friedman section but floyds are fun to make your guitar sound like a f'kin monster



No lack of sustain or fullness here
 
ewill52":nlpyyqsj said:
ok....most of my stuff is non-floyd. I have this one Charvel tho, and it plays like frickin' magic. Tone has always been fine w\a shit-ton of gain, a little thin at times. I bought the brass L block and trem stop from FU Tone. $50, what the hell, give it a shot, right? HOLY SHIT. Game changer for me. Trem stop let me put a d-tuna on and makes string changes waaaaaay easier (I don't pull up on the bar). The block has some legit mojo, more sustain, and it just sounds.....fuller? Rounder? Hard to describe but the "thin" sound I associate with a Floyd is gone.

Just FYI, someone else may have a different opinion, but it changed my Charvel from a guitar that is fun to play but doesn't make it out of the bedroom to a regular weapon in the gig arsenal.
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Same here with an 88 Jackson strat. Had a JT6 trem, but knew that was coming out based on previous experience. Had a Schaller that I put in, but still a thin tone, nothing like my other USA Charvels. Ordered a Brass block and wow what a difference. There are very easy ways to help a thin sounding Floyded superstrat to thicken up; as others have said blocking for dive only is another great tip.
 
Everytime I play a non-floyd I'm constantly reaching for the bar that's not there.
 
Aghh... now you guys have me researching the brass blocks, lol.

I always figured they made a small difference, but not enough unless I was REALLY listening for the smallest little details. However, some of these comments make it sound much more dramatic as far as adding fullness.
 
Not a Floyd hater, not a Floyd lover. Depends on what you want to dig from your guitar. I used to play in the band with floyd rose locked during the last 5 years because of themes in dropped tuning along with standard and taking the second guitar wasn't for me. Anyway some mates think that I'm a tremolo-guy and they had rounded eyes when I finally decided to take a hardtail strat.
 
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