What i advantages and disadvantages of floyd rose?

[Eren Koc]

I am going to buy an new guitar and thinking about floyd rose bridge but should i buy it? What is the advantages and disadvantages of this.
I want to buy it because almost every song i play on guitar has a part with floyd rose.

 

[Dominik Gräber]

I don’t own one, nut from what I know is:
+ they stay in tune waaay better
– it is complicated to tune your guitar and tuning (not fine tuning) and restringing can take pretty long (for beginners at least)

 

[Alan Celis]

+you can do divebombs, flutters and tremolo thingies with more tuning stability than any other tremolo
+it looks cooler than any other bridge
-it requires more time

 

[Filip Tomiša]

you can’t really switch from e standard and drop d like you can on regular guitars, for example if you are playing a song in E standard and you want to play the next one in drop D

 

[Ed Seith]

If you’re going to have a floating bridge, there is NONE BETTER than one using Floyd Rose patented technology. Hard stop. Fact. End of story. (I say it that way because Ibanez tremolos are not made by Floyd Rose, but use their patents to make their own).
Advantages – all things whammy, from major effect to subtle vibrato. Absolutely ROCK SOLID tuning stability. Better than anything else out there, including fixed bridges.
Disadvantages – String changes take longer, if you break a string, the guitar is unplayably out of tune until it’s replaced, can’t change tunings on the fly.
Next time I restring one of the Ibanez, I plan to make a video.

 

[idssdi]

+ Floyd’s stay in tune better doing bends and you can do dive bombs
-you really have to set it up for a specific tuning from drop d to standard won’t go that easy. If you do it anyway your guitar will really not stay in tune and it sucks balls.
Tuning and changing strings isn’t that bad when you get how it works

 

[BrandonJ]

Advantages: Guitar rarely goes out of tune, divebombs, whammy tricks,
Disadvantages: Can’t change tunings quickly, tuning process can be long and annoying

 

[Noah Berends]

Advantages: Divebombs, flutters, etc. All the cool tricks in the book. Even just some nice subtle accents. It stays in tune for years. Maybe not quite, but I tune mine maybe once a week.
Disadvantages: You’re more or less stuck in the tuning and string gauge it’s set up for. If you want to change tuning or change the string gauge from factory, you’ll have to do a lot of readjusting with springs and tension. You also can’t change tunings on the fly, and restringing is an afternoon project (not quite, I’ve got mine down to 45 mins, but it can feel like it.) Also, like Ed said, if one string suddenly changes tension drastically, the whole guitar is out of whack. So buy good strings.

 

[Dan Shipway]

+Really cool effects such as dive bombs, simulated bending, flutters and note slurs.
+Better tuning that any other type of tremolo bridge.
-Takes time to restring
-Pain to tune (That being said I just tuned mine down from drop D to drop C# with no resistance)
Definitely get one if you don’t already Even if you don’t like it, it is still something useful to have

 

[Calvin Phillips]

I’ve never used another bar. But cant go wrong with the floyd rose. However, there ARE different versions that I feel are much better then others. I like the one on my Revenger more then my newer one. But thats only because I can pull on it harder where the other I have to more shake the divebomb