Guildedagain
Enlightened Member
A few months ago, I picked up a shredder with a Floyd Rose. I couldn't get enough of it, seemingly the best thing since sliced bread.
Since, I picked up a Telecaster and got serious about playing.
So today, I got the shredder out again and what a horror, never again, I never want to play it again or even look at it again until the day it sells.
The guitar was ok before, but oddly tuned to A = 432Hz, so a little flat, and I didn't mind then, but I do now so I went to sharpen it a bit, and if you ever thought working with the old fashioned Strat was a hassle about minor tuning changes, it doesn't hold a candle to the monstrosity that is the Floyd.
After a half hour of retuning, retuning, retuning, retuning, retuning, etc, etc with no end in sight, I gave up.
Feeling sorry for the person who gets it.
What an insane PITA, and how could people have ever been bamboozled into thinking this was a way forward, an improvement on something?
It boggles the mind.
I finally got it tuned up and almost stabilized, and instantly realized that country bends in G sound HORRIBLE as the high E string detunes as you bend the G up, just terrible.
I you want to frustrate yourself and sound like unmitigated carp, get a Floyd now.
Should this be in the ROTD thread?
Guitars are like dates or long term partners. As you get older, your patience for bs thins, and for me that is the last straw with a Floyd equipped guitar, and I'm now remembering the same experiences in the past, extreme frustration and the inability to play. My, how quickly we forget.
By comparison, the old Strat with 6 screw trem is a gem. Just before reaching for the shredder, I'd just gone from decked on my '74 Strat to mucho floating, to the point of pulling it up a whole step, easy peasy and the guitar still plays well, the whole endeavor took like 5 minutes.
Speaking of trem equipped guitars, I've been playing the Tremar equipped S-50 again, and what a sweetie. It's got its limitations, but it doesn't get in the way of your playing at all.
The reason I got it out was learning on bunch of difficult Townsend chords from Tommy, and the S-50 is one of only two guitars I have with 24.75" scale, which makes it a little easier.
I'm playing it unplugged, and it has a very convincing Who/SG tone, sounds just right, easy playing, light.
Rethinking ever selling that one, besides that it is probably one of the most unsellable guitars I've ever had.
Beware of entry level Guilds, easy to buy, tough to sell, but the icing on that cake is that they are very good guitars, even better as time goes on.
Since, I picked up a Telecaster and got serious about playing.
So today, I got the shredder out again and what a horror, never again, I never want to play it again or even look at it again until the day it sells.
The guitar was ok before, but oddly tuned to A = 432Hz, so a little flat, and I didn't mind then, but I do now so I went to sharpen it a bit, and if you ever thought working with the old fashioned Strat was a hassle about minor tuning changes, it doesn't hold a candle to the monstrosity that is the Floyd.
After a half hour of retuning, retuning, retuning, retuning, retuning, etc, etc with no end in sight, I gave up.
Feeling sorry for the person who gets it.
What an insane PITA, and how could people have ever been bamboozled into thinking this was a way forward, an improvement on something?
It boggles the mind.
I finally got it tuned up and almost stabilized, and instantly realized that country bends in G sound HORRIBLE as the high E string detunes as you bend the G up, just terrible.
I you want to frustrate yourself and sound like unmitigated carp, get a Floyd now.
Should this be in the ROTD thread?
Guitars are like dates or long term partners. As you get older, your patience for bs thins, and for me that is the last straw with a Floyd equipped guitar, and I'm now remembering the same experiences in the past, extreme frustration and the inability to play. My, how quickly we forget.
By comparison, the old Strat with 6 screw trem is a gem. Just before reaching for the shredder, I'd just gone from decked on my '74 Strat to mucho floating, to the point of pulling it up a whole step, easy peasy and the guitar still plays well, the whole endeavor took like 5 minutes.
Speaking of trem equipped guitars, I've been playing the Tremar equipped S-50 again, and what a sweetie. It's got its limitations, but it doesn't get in the way of your playing at all.
The reason I got it out was learning on bunch of difficult Townsend chords from Tommy, and the S-50 is one of only two guitars I have with 24.75" scale, which makes it a little easier.
I'm playing it unplugged, and it has a very convincing Who/SG tone, sounds just right, easy playing, light.
Rethinking ever selling that one, besides that it is probably one of the most unsellable guitars I've ever had.
Beware of entry level Guilds, easy to buy, tough to sell, but the icing on that cake is that they are very good guitars, even better as time goes on.
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