Floyd Rose users!

[STINNETT]

Get yourself one of those oversized brass sustain blocks like those sold here:

http://floydupgrades.com/index.php

I installed one last night on my Jackson SL2H, and there is no hype to this at all, it is a real dramatic difference. More beef, more punch, better sustain.

I will never own a floyd equipped guitar without installing one of these.

 

[Metaltastic]

Ooh, very nice, thanks for the heads-up dude! Which size did you get, and do some only fit with certain routings? Also, do they work on licensed FR's?

 

[STINNETT]

Ooh, very nice, thanks for the heads-up dude! Which size did you get, and do some only fit with certain routings? Also, do they work on licensed FR's?

I can't comment on a liscensed Floyd, I've only bolted one to mine and it's an original. I'm sure that info is out there somewhere.
My understanding is that the 42 mm will work on a non recessed floyd, and the 37 or 32 will work with a recessed floyd. I measured the original block on my recessed floyd and it was 32 mm. I would just recommend measuring yours first.

I've seen some tighter routes on some guitars. If you had a really tight route it might limit your travel by hitting the body of the guitar. If you look at the stock block, you will basically be doubling the thickness. You'd probably just have to do a visual check.

 

[kev]

$259?

 

[pifos_2]

$259?

That's Titanium dude. Glasses in Titanium cost even more and there is almost no mass.

 

[Kazrog]

Seems to me like that would really restrict the mobility of the Floyd. Pointless IMO. I get TONS of tone and sustain out of my Floyd-equipped guitars, especially my Schecter Jeff Loomis 7 string.

 

[Metaltastic]

But that doesn't mean you couldn't get more tone and sustain with one of these Shane, and you can't know whether it'll restrict movement until you try one...

 

[Notuern]

Try changing to a brass nut.
Its like getting a whole new guitar, i definitely recomend this to anyone who never tried it before.

 

[JonWormwood]

Try changing to a brass nut.
Its like getting a whole new guitar, i definitely recomend this to anyone who never tried it before.

Hmm. Link?

 

[LSD-Studio]

Try changing to a brass nut.
Its like getting a whole new guitar, i definitely recomend this to anyone who never tried it before.

mmm.
the difference is that open strings sound more similar to a fretted note...

the Floyd blocks give you way more improvement imo....

but before you're doing all that get a stonepick (pickboy st-4) ! ask Gavin about it

 

[Kazrog]

But that doesn't mean you couldn't get more tone and sustain with one of these Shane, and you can't know whether it'll restrict movement until you try one...

I won't bother trying one because my tone with a Floyd is every bit as good as any of my fixed bridge guitars, and given the measurements of the sustain block, it can and WILL restrict movement.

But don't take it from me! Eddie Van Halen didn't need a sustain block on his Floyd to get some of the best tones ever recorded.

 

[Metaltastic]

No need to roll eyes, buddeh - and EVH had one other advantage in his tone, hardly even worth mentioning: he was EVH. I'm not gonna rule one of these out until I try it.

 

[MetallyGuitarded]

I wonder how I've never heard of this floydupgrades site before. Cool stuff indeed.

 

[Kazrog]

No need to roll eyes, buddeh - and EVH had one other advantage in his tone, hardly even worth mentioning: he was EVH. I'm not gonna rule one of these out until I try it.

 

[RipShredmohr]

$795 for SADDLES?!?!?!?

 

[MetallyGuitarded]

$795 for SADDLES?!?!?!?

Outstanding use of the jaw-drop Rip. Carry on...

 

[006]

Or just get guitars with TOM/string-thru and enjoy the most sustain and low-end possible with a guitar...

Before anyone bothers to argue, I'm not speaking from opinion, it's physics.

~006

 

[Kazrog]

Outstanding use of the jaw-drop Rip. Carry on...

 

[Metaltastic]

Or just get guitars with TOM/string-thru and enjoy the most sustain and low-end possible with a guitar...

Before anyone bothers to argue, I'm not speaking from opinion, it's physics.

~006

Oh of course - I just like the stuff whammies allow me to do, and honestly, I'm fine without being able to pull back, the only thing I hate though is the "clunk" non-recessed Floyds make when you come back up from a dip - though some squishy double-sided tape would solve that...

 

[JBroll]

You can get blocks that don't restrict movement.

Also, EVH said he only recorded with vintage-style trems as the FR was too bright and he didn't like it...

Jeff