TO Whammy or NOT to Whammy...

[AzNjT]

As the title... am not sure if someone has psoted this before but, for some people who cant make up their minds... Lets start a Lil' topic

who'd like to get the Ball rollin :arrow:

 

[Stillborn]

well......how 'bout both

 

[nysk]

erm its qutie hard to decide yes or no for this topic... it all really boils down to whether u use it in ur music or not... of course having a whammy adds a lot of colour to your play but i dont really play with whammy cuz im not too familiar on how to use it to its fullest... haha sadly most gib LP's havn no whammy slots w/o u custom installing them... and i dont think u wanna neck kbend on a gibson les paul unless ur 100% sure on how to do it or ur gonna break paul's neck

 

[jono007]

i had a guit with a floyd rose for about 10 years and never used the whammy. Then I bought a tele, and started practicing more and missed the whammy... so I made sure the next guit I bought had a whammy.

I think it's useful, and I don't really think you miss out on any tone.

 

[AzNjT]

Also Considering that Floating Bridge guitars are usually More expensive, But Would it be equal More or less If you found a Guitar with No whammy and 24 Frets as compared to a 22 Fret Whammy??

so it Thickens....

 

[AzNjT]

i had a guit with a floyd rose for about 10 years and never used the whammy. Then I bought a tele, and started practicing more and missed the whammy... so I made sure the next guit I bought had a whammy.

I think it's useful, and I don't really think you miss out on any tone.

Whoa 10 years is a LONG time man.. yea my idea of flaoting bridges that it Loses some of ur sustain, but thast just me... i dont know why but it just is in my head... no idea where it came from.. but ya... :roll:

 

[ShredCow]

Whammy for me. Though, having a floyd makes your tone thinner and takes away bass, it works out well when you can do things a fixed bridge can't do.

 

[seanydon]

Yeah, I used to play an Ibanez GRG with an edge pro bridge, but I totally hated that and sold it off to get an Epi Les Paul (with an ABR-1 stopbar, duh). Didn't really see much of a need for whammy for my type of playing, although I would love to see myself doing hendrix-esque divebombs one day...

 

[AzNjT]

Whammy for me. Though, having a floyd makes your tone thinner and takes away bass, it works out well when you can do things a fixed bridge can't do.

it really takes away that "full-ness" from ur sound??

 

[ShredCow]

Yeah, I used to play an Ibanez GRG with an edge pro bridge, but I totally hated that and sold it off to get an Epi Les Paul (with an ABR-1 stopbar, duh).

I didn't know GRGs came with Edge Pro bridges... you sure?

Most of the misconceptions of a floyd rose style bridge comes from having a poor quality one in the first place. If you have a good one, you will experience superior tuning stability and you can abuse it all day along with little fear of string breaks and stuff.

 

[seanydon]

Not too sure man. But one thing's for sure, it was a floyd-rose-esque model. Didn't like it because of the inconvinience during string changing and it's "looseness". I don't mind trying the Wilkinson bridge though.

 

[namle]

i believe it might have been the ILT model.........

 

[AzNjT]

yeah, i;ve heard people talking about The hassle of canging the Strings on a Floyd, whast Everyone talking about actually ??

 

[ShredCow]

Not too sure man. But one thing's for sure, it was a floyd-rose-esque model. Didn't like it because of the inconvinience during string changing and it's "looseness". I don't mind trying the Wilkinson bridge though.

Did it have locking nuts?

If not, its more of a Wilkinson-esque model.

 

[neuro182]

well......how 'bout both

+1..

Buy a guitar with FR bridge & add in a Tremol-No..

 

[ShredCow]

it really takes away that "full-ness" from ur sound??

Yes.

But treat it as a different tone. A Les Paul is supposed to be all fatness and stuff but thats not THE tone.