I'm going to do it! (Change tuning on syn custom-s)

[Shawn Lennie]

I've been putting this off for like a year, but this week I am going to commit to attempting the old change tuning on a Floyd trick I've got @Ed Seith videos on hand, so I guess if it all turns to shit i just blame him right? Wish me luck and check in a week to see if I'm alive haha

 

[Zvonimir Zoki]

good luck soldier 🫡

 

[Ed Seith]

Oh yeah! All my goddamn fault! I’ll be driving all day tomorrow (Sunday), but I’ll be checking in regularly again after that.

 

[Rad Synner]

Whatever goes wrong, it's always @Ed Seith's fault. Good luck with the tuning change

 

[Ed Seith]

#Truth

 

[Jamie London]

You're a brave, brave soul! But yes, #alwaysblameEd!
Jk jk. Captain Ed was a real one for that stream to begin with!
You've got this!

 

[Christopher Lonski]

Floyds are so easy to change tunings on or to retune once you know that blocking the trem in the back is the key to all of it. On top of that, they hold tuning better than I ever thought possible, or at least the German Floyds do. I have an old Schecter that had the 1000 series Floyd and it was TERRIBLE. From the day that I purchased it new, it would never return to pitch. The trem arm even snapped in half after like a month or two of normal use. They were advertised as being identical to the real German Floyds, but this was a lie. The metals were obviously weaker and I even compared the individual parts to the German part when I swapped out the 1000 series Korean one, and literally every part had slightly different shapes. I tuned that guitar once in the last 6 months using possibly the most accurate and sensitive pedal tuners ever made, the Sonic Research Turbo Tuner, and it has stayed in absolute perfect tune since that first tuning. You'd think humidity changes would have knocked it even the slightest bit out of tune, especially given that I stripped all of the paint off of the guitar and it is just bare mahogany now, but nope. Not even slightly out of tune. Real Floyds are incredible and should never be feared.

 

[William B.]

My guitar tunes sharp or flat by itself, does the lock system help that?

 

[Apocalyptic Katana]

Make sure you stretch each string properly

in other words, you bend a string and doesn't go out of tune ,before locking it down at the locking nut.

check it doesn't go out of tune a good amount of times from bending

trust me this a fundamental mistake people make

 

[ori moshe]

Yo sorry for hopping on but a follow up question, i have the synyster-s too, can I simply change the tuning by switching strings and rune half ton down? Or does the Floyd rose need tuning too?

 

[Shawn Lennie]

So I got all strings on and to tension, only problem is my back springs are pretty much maxed out and the bridge still leans forward toward the neck slightly. Went from factory (either 10-46 or 9-42) to 10-52. 3 springs currently in the back, is this just a case of detuning and starting again, or do I have to add an extra spring?

#Truth

 

[Ed Seith]

Probably add an extra spring (or replace with newer ones if these are stretched out). Starting over won't change the laws of physics. 4 springs on heavy strings is pretty normal.

 

[Shawn Lennie]

Probably add an extra spring (or replace with newer ones if these are stretched out). Starting over won't change the laws of physics. 4 springs on heavy strings is pretty normal.

Thank you so much! I'll give that a crack tonight and should be all good to go

 

[Shawn Lennie]

I've done it, it's finally done! Bridge parallel (I mean without getting a mini spirit level out and shit) with the body and in tune

 

[Ed Seith]

Awesome!! Good work!