If it's got any kind of whammy, you're looking at tuning issues like that. Locking nut has nothing to do with it. It's a bridge with pivots and springs.
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JOIN THE DISCORD VIEW THREADMaybe I should have said...a guitar with a lockin tuning system. I mean changing the tuning on a floyd rose I heard is a nightmare and takes far too much time. I change tuning fairly often. From my understanding the AZ line comes without a floating bridge (at least the model that I am interested in).
Any tremolo you find is going to have a floating bridge on it besides I believe the Kahler bridges which is from what I've heard an even bigger pain to deal with. That's how you get you're tremolo effect. If you try going from say E Std to D Std it's going to throw off the tremolo and you'll have to adjust it which isn't something you can really do in a gigging scenario. I just got my first floyd rose equipped Schecter here a week ago today. Retuning it takes a little bit of time and a trick or two but it isn't a nightmare to deal with unless you're onstage and just went 1 1/2 steps down or something which shouldn't ever happen. On the first night of owning the guitar I noticed the owner had it tuned to D Std when he shipped it but with shipping it had gone flat. Tried tuning it with one guys video which felt practically useless which ate up some time. I then found out Ben Eller had a video on it which ended up working perfectly for me. All in all I spent about 50 minutes tuning it. 25 of that was spent watching the other guys somewhat useless to me video on the topic. Now that I know what to do I could probably bring that down to less than 20 minutes. Is it tedious and more time consuming that a hard tail? Yeah. Is it nightmare fuel and painstakingly hard? Nope. Tremolo's are going to take more work than a hardtail. It may take a bit to get used to working on a floyd bridge but its something anyone with a brain can work with once they understand how it works. Don't be scared of a piece of hardware. Personally I've learned that a tremolo or at least a Floyd isn't for me. I wouldn't have learned that if I bought one and started working with it. By the way those AZ guitars are stunning! Everything I've heard about them is that they are fantastic guitars that sound incredible!Maybe I should have said...a guitar with a lockin tuning system. I mean changing the tuning on a floyd rose I heard is a nightmare and takes far too much time. I change tuning fairly often. From my understanding the AZ line comes without a floating bridge (at least the model that I am interested in).
Gotcha! Thanks for the insight! And yess thoose AZ guitars are beautiful and when I saw they made a leftie version I lost my shit......very versatile instruments which I love. My Epiphone Les Paul Custom has a coil split and it completely spoiled me...Any tremolo you find is going to have a floating bridge on it besides I believe the Kahler bridges which is from what I've heard an even bigger pain to deal with. That's how you get you're tremolo effect. If you try going from say E Std to D Std it's going to throw off the tremolo and you'll have to adjust it which isn't something you can really do in a gigging scenario. I just got my first floyd rose equipped Schecter here a week ago today. Retuning it takes a little bit of time and a trick or two but it isn't a nightmare to deal with unless you're onstage and just went 1 1/2 steps down or something which shouldn't ever happen. On the first night of owning the guitar I noticed the owner had it tuned to D Std when he shipped it but with shipping it had gone flat. Tried tuning it with one guys video which felt practically useless which ate up some time. I then found out Ben Eller had a video on it which ended up working perfectly for me. All in all I spent about 50 minutes tuning it. 25 of that was spent watching the other guys somewhat useless to me video on the topic. Now that I know what to do I could probably bring that down to less than 20 minutes. Is it tedious and more time consuming that a hard tail? Yeah. Is it nightmare fuel and painstakingly hard? Nope. Tremolo's are going to take more work than a hardtail. It may take a bit to get used to working on a floyd bridge but its something anyone with a brain can work with once they understand how it works. Don't be scared of a piece of hardware. Personally I've learned that a tremolo or at least a Floyd isn't for me. I wouldn't have learned that if I bought one and started working with it. By the way those AZ guitars are stunning! Everything I've heard about them is that they are fantastic guitars that sound incredible!
I can definitely relate to that Filip! I'm in a similar place. One simply can't be good at everything so you have to choose what you want to be great at. I'm also focusing more on music production, on writing more songs and especially finishing them! I still want to play guitar, but I am narrowing down my goals to be more attainable, given the time I have available. I want to get back into singing and playing, that's the one thing I was doing really well at.My focus has switched from guitar to music production in the past year so I'm not really playing that much anymore but I accepted it because I know that I can be way more creative with music production rather than guitar. So my goals are to improve my production skills like song making, mixing, mastering... and I hope to make even more songs than I did last year. I'm currently finishing one up and it will hopefully be uploaded at the end of the month.
p.s. here's an interesting thing that I learned today. It's called "No more zero days". Here's a video that explains what that actually is:
I highly recommend watching. I'm sure that it will help you guys a lot.
No problemo man I'm glad to offer some insight.Gotcha! Thanks for the insight! And yess thoose AZ guitars are beautiful and when I saw they made a leftie version I lost my shit......very versatile instruments which I love. My Epiphone Les Paul Custom has a coil split and it completely spoiled me...
I didn't know he still made videos! Def going to watch that later.My focus has switched from guitar to music production in the past year so I'm not really playing that much anymore but I accepted it because I know that I can be way more creative with music production rather than guitar. So my goals are to improve my production skills like song making, mixing, mastering... and I hope to make even more songs than I did last year. I'm currently finishing one up and it will hopefully be uploaded at the end of the month.
p.s. here's an interesting thing that I learned today. It's called "No more zero days". Here's a video that explains what that actually is:
I highly recommend watching. I'm sure that it will help you guys a lot.
Small question, finish paying?I've been hemming and hawing on the next guitar thing. Probably settled on a Fender American Elite Stratocaster. I almost went for it last night with the President's Day sale, but I still need to finish paying for the Kiesel before I buy anything else, and I had to buy two cars this month, so...
Lots of work on techniques. Alternate picking up to speed. Better at sweeping. Blues stuff (hence the Strat), and definitely theory. This is the year.
Plus the obligatory drop some pounds (that damned ice cream), which I started on Monday.
Small question, finish paying?
I'm horrified doing those kinda things, I always kinda go 'if I can't pay it in one go, I don't buy it's that doesn't count for when I want to buy a house or a car but for all the other things it does.
Yeah, my face never gets old!@Dominik Graeber Glad to see your face in your profile pic and not Corey Taylor's this time haha.
And @carlosmqr I'm feeling your pain on trying to find people to jam with. There aren't many people where I am that devote time to things besides drinking. I found one guy who plays guitar but he plays like soft rock and slow, emotional stuff. And sings in a really high voice. I don't think I'm ready for that kind of thing
I'm also going to recommend the Boss Katana. As far as amps go I think they're affordable. Just got one last weekend and the tones you can achieve on it are phenomenal. Every Boss pedal is on the computer. Customizable and I couldn't tell the difference between the digital tone and the DS1 pedal I already have.
I already have my dream guitar, which is a Syn Custom in black and gold. I love it so much. It's my favorite. So I'm just going to continue on working on modifying my strat. It's a Peavy with stock pick-ups so I'm trying to outfit it with EMGs and better tuners, plus a little paint decal.
I think I got too ambitious with my new years post when I said I wanted to learn more songs. The songs I set out to learn this year are way above my skill level so I'm focusing on technique and speed while learning easier things. I spent some time on "Stay" by Post Malone and right now I'm working on Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt". End of the year goal is still to work on Buried Alive.
Yeah, my face never gets old!
I agree, it's amazing what a low-mid Budget amp Like the Katana can do!
I'm eagerly awaiting your Buried Alive Cover
- get a job until I start college in October
Draw it Like one of your french Girls!Well my most ambitious project for this year is to build my dream guitar from scratch, I'm currently drawing it.
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