Andy Eagle
Fractal Fanatic
Sorry I still stand by what I said the Stretcha is garbage and as above.
The mass of the bridge or the way it couples with the body could affect the resonance...So it was totally just the bridge.
Tone-a-Matic?The mass of the bridge or the way it couples with the body could affect the resonance...
I am still surprised in all my years of playing and many guitars that I never encountered it before this. It's apparently really common.
The guitar is still damn nice and I enjoy it. It's improved after the new neck but still have to work those 2 notes on the G string to get them to sustain.
Think you quoted the wrong personTone-a-Matic?
No, I was only half tongue in cheek suggesting you try that bridge for your dead notes issue, since it seems to have helped @State of Epicicity so much with the same thing. No idea if it'll fit, costs $$$$, is available etc, just a thought.Think you quoted the wrong person
I don't think so... My guitar has a Floyd Rose.No, I was only half tongue in cheek suggesting you try that bridge for your dead notes issue, since it seems to have helped @State of Epicicity so much with the same thing. No idea if it'll fit, costs $$$$, is available etc, just a thought.
Details details. Are you sure it won't fit?I don't think so... My guitar has a Floyd Rose.
Let me get my hammer...Details details. Are you sure it won't fit?
It's not really about "quality" as much as it is just the actual mass of the bridge and how that affects the overall resonance of the guitar.@dave Merill hahaha! It killed me to get rid of the trem, since that was the main reason I got that guitar, but if I had to choose between tone and trem, I'll go for tone. @unix-guy I'm talking without direct experience here, but I'm guessing the highest quality Floyd upgrade would be a Coherent Sound in Light Sophia. The guy who makes those is the inventor of the great ZR Trem that Ibanez used to make. And for the locking nut, Bill Edwards all the goddamn way!
It's not really about "quality" as much as it is just the actual mass of the bridge and how that affects the overall resonance of the guitar.
True... But we're discussing dead notes on a brand new guitar. That wasn't really relevantThe quality aspect does make a difference in how quickly the posts and baseplate knife edges will wear.
Did you by chance adjust the bridge posts while without slacking the strings? I have about 20 Ibanez guitars with Edge trems and have never had a problem with posts or knife edges except the first time I learned the hard wayMy first instance of worn posts and baseplates was actually on an Edge from the mid-90's
I only ever had one Ibanez, and I was a kid when I had it. I definitely did not know how to work on one properly back then, and I don't know if I adjusted it at tension, which would completely destroy a knife edge, and the post divot. I'll take your experience as a good point of proof, though. I'll have to give one of those a try again in the future.I have about 20 Ibanez guitars with Edge trems and have never had a problem with posts or knife edges except the first time I learned the hard way
I've never had any concerns... Pretty much all my guitars have floating bridges, and have for most of my 35+ years of playing. They work for me and are very well made.How do you feel about the tone and sustain of the Edge trem?
No, it doesn't work properly . Most of the ones I've come across either cut the high E or is slips. You can't beat the Gotoh made Floyd nut.I am talking with direct experience of the Bill Edwards. That nut design is The Best.
The Kahler with roller saddles is the biggest tone suck you can put on a guitar short of a string damper.I know this thread is old, but I just happened up it for the first time. I had to add my weird experience with dead notes:
I had a Gibson Shred V with a Kahler that had the same dead notes regardless of what string they were played on. I replaced the import Kahler with a USA one (not for the dead notes, but for tuning stability), and the dead notes shifted up slightly, but were just as bad (so was the lousy tuning stability). I finally said screw it and installed Hipshot Tone-a-Matic bridge, and the dead notes completely disappeared on the guitar altogether, along with the tuning instability. So it was totally just the bridge. Not surprisingly, with the Tone-A-Matic, the sustain went through the damn roof. I had never thought a bridge of any kind could be the cause of dead notes, but in my case that was totally it. I'm sorry to read that even after waiting all this time, getting a new neck on the Suhr, that the problem still remained. If I were John Suhr, I would've tried that new neck on some different bodies sitting at the factor until I found one that worked with the neck without causing any notes to do that. My Gibson was the only guitar I've ever had with dead notes, and I don't think it's something ever to accept as just being part of a guitar. To me that's part of QC. If you were at the factory and drilled a hole in the wrong spot, you don't just pawn that off to the customer; you start again, more slowly and carefully. And when you're making a really damn expensive instrument, you make sure there are no fret problems, and you make sure there are no dead notes. If someone trusts your company enough to pay that much money, the customer deserves ten minutes of your time to make sure the instrument is completely right out of the gate. Very cool that John Suhr worked on your guitar directly; too bad he apparently didn't QC it too.
It's not really about "quality" as much as it is just the actual mass of the bridge and how that affects the overall resonance of the guitar.
IMO there is nothing better than the original Edge trems but this one is very good. It even comes with a brass block... If anything, I might try swapping the block as that's fairly cheap and easy to do.