Tremsetter Review

[tonmazz]

Well a while back after playing Les Pauls for 25 years, I got my first real tremolo guitar, an Ibanez RG. I avoided tremolos mainly because of my fear of it constantly going out of tune. Being a player that loves to do lots of bends, I was very dissapointed at the sag of the tremolo when bending. All of the other strings go out of tune when you do a certain type of rif. Bottom line, a local master of guitar set up suggested a tremsetter as the solution. After much research into this and the tremolno, I had the tremsetter installed mostly because I didn't think the tremolno addressed this issue specifically, although I'd like to put one in a different guitar to take advantage of what that can do.

Bottom line, this thing is frickin awesome! Absolutely no sag and you can beat the crap out of it doing dives and pull ups and it stays in perfect tune! Great product and works as advertised. The bar feels tighter but I don't know if it is a by product of me going from 9s to 10s, not sure but if it is tighter as a result, it is worth the trade off.

 

[shredhead7]

Thanks for the review, I'm looking at installing them on one of my guitars. I like to flutter at times, go Brad Gillis, and was wondering if you can still flutter with it?

(If you don't know what fluttering is, point the trem arm in the exact opposite direction of the neck and while you hold a note, flick the very tip of the bar with your hand and the sound will sound like Bdddddd.)

 

[tonmazz]

Hey. Well heres the deal. I definately have heard that technique used so I know what you're talking about, but I really never did it before the tremsetter being new to the bar thing. That being said I can tell you that no it doesn't really flutter like I've heard with Gillis and others. The bar tends to recover and go back to center after the first little flutter. I tried it a bunch of times and a few times I heard maybe a little flutter when I hit the exact perfect position, but I would say either this trem never did it or its as a result of the tremsetter or maybe even the heavier guage strings? Hey, user error is not out of the question either but I don't think it is rocket science so I probably didn't screw that up.

Either way now that you brought that up, I wish I could flutter. Thanks a lot! You have me intrigued with this, I have to go to GC and grab a regular trem and see the difference. For me though, I couldn't live with the sag and tuning issue so I think for me it is great. Even trying to flutter it, I was banging on that thing and it is perfectly in tune.