Sevenstring.org - View Single Post - Fucking tremolo (tremolo hatred thread #3)

Naren · 09-13-2006, 10:45 AM

So, this will be my third hatred towards tremolos thread since joining this forum (about 4-6 months between threads). Right now I feel like killing the inventor of the tremolo.

So I quit my band. In that band I was tuning to one step down because the other band members were. So, yesterday, I thought "I want to tune back into standard." So I tried tuning back into standard. I tried 6 times before I gave up. Every time I tried, the bridge kept raising several inches off the ground. So, I'd loosen all the strings until the tremolo bridge sank into the cavity and then try again. No luck. I could usually get 4-5 strings perfectly in tune before the thing was too high to do anything. So, I gave up and left my guitar in some crazy tuning. Today I tried again about 5 times before I thought, "Whenever I put on new strings, I never have ANY trouble getting it into the tuning with the bridge flat." So I start putting on new strings. Things seem to be going really well until I get to the last 2 strings. After trying to tune them, the bridge is too high again. Every time, I go back the strings are almost perfectly one step below where I want them to be (as if they're too used to my old tuning). I tried a few methods that seemed to work, but when I tuned reversed and got to the low B, it was exactly a B, but it was ONE OCTAVE below where it should be. And, tuning just that string alone up to where it should be pulled the bridge up way too high.

I've been trying to get this fucking guitar in tune for the last 3 hours and I feel like throwing it out the window and just using my hardtail six-strings from now on...

Any advice? Any way to keep that bridge from moving at all? I have read about 15 tutorials on the internet on how to tune guitars with tremolos over the past year, but none of them are helping me now. This is the most trouble I have ever had tuning a guitar. On my hardtails, AT THE MOST, 5 minutes. Changing strings and tuning the guitar? AT THE MOST, 10 minutes. I can't understand why 80% of Ibanez's sevens have tremolos... Help, anyone?

09-13-2006, 10:45 AM	#1
Naren OldschoolGhettostyle Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Tokyo Posts: 12,148 Real Name: Eric Main Seven: RG1527-GK Main ERG: RG7EXFX2-IPT Rig: GNX3000 Thanked: 37	Fucking tremolo (tremolo hatred thread #3) So, this will be my third hatred towards tremolos thread since joining this forum (about 4-6 months between threads). Right now I feel like killing the inventor of the tremolo. So I quit my band. In that band I was tuning to one step down because the other band members were. So, yesterday, I thought "I want to tune back into standard." So I tried tuning back into standard. I tried 6 times before I gave up. Every time I tried, the bridge kept raising several inches off the ground. So, I'd loosen all the strings until the tremolo bridge sank into the cavity and then try again. No luck. I could usually get 4-5 strings perfectly in tune before the thing was too high to do anything. So, I gave up and left my guitar in some crazy tuning. Today I tried again about 5 times before I thought, "Whenever I put on new strings, I never have ANY trouble getting it into the tuning with the bridge flat." So I start putting on new strings. Things seem to be going really well until I get to the last 2 strings. After trying to tune them, the bridge is too high again. Every time, I go back the strings are almost perfectly one step below where I want them to be (as if they're too used to my old tuning). I tried a few methods that seemed to work, but when I tuned reversed and got to the low B, it was exactly a B, but it was ONE OCTAVE below where it should be. And, tuning just that string alone up to where it should be pulled the bridge up way too high. I've been trying to get this fucking guitar in tune for the last 3 hours and I feel like throwing it out the window and just using my hardtail six-strings from now on... Any advice? Any way to keep that bridge from moving at all? I have read about 15 tutorials on the internet on how to tune guitars with tremolos over the past year, but none of them are helping me now. This is the most trouble I have ever had tuning a guitar. On my hardtails, AT THE MOST, 5 minutes. Changing strings and tuning the guitar? AT THE MOST, 10 minutes. I can't understand why 80% of Ibanez's sevens have tremolos... Help, anyone?