Owning Your First Floyd Rose Guitar?! What you need to know! (Eric Shreds

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[richardbinder]

I've owned over 20 Floyd Rose equipped guitars since 1983. Most floating. Don't take all the strings off at once when it's floating. Do one at a time . The trem should be level. When you change the string just by looking at the level your almost in tune. Repeat for each string. Make sure to stretch the string. I can change and tune in @ 10 minutes.

[mrax]

If Guitar Center is your only option for set ups, you've got more problems than just a bad Floyd.

[scienceproject]

I have to go on record here. My Jackson JS32 Kelly is a beast and does an amazing job staying in tune. $300 straight up. Jackson's budget line really is just stellar.

[viczav.]

i have a Jackson D. and it stays in tune perfectly and i paid $300

[rvs]

Don't change the strings out all at a time. Change them one at a time, removing the string, changing it, and tuning it back up, before moving on to the next. That way you preserve your tension. And tune the strings up one after another bit by bit sequentially. You can't tune one string then move to the next, they'll go all out again.

[XSRonin]

I got a Jackson JS32 Dinky DKA-M for €300 ($315) It's less then 400 but the msrp on Jackson's site is $399.

I managed to restring it today without any errors and it stays in tune fairly well.

[DaddySaysNo]

I heard GC and was done there. “Normal” in my collection is with a FR...actually I don’t own a single stoptail bridge. Playing guitar is an endless learning experience. Remember how much of a headache it was to learn your first song, chord, scale? And now that’s all behind you...

With patience and practice a FR becomes the “norm.”

[nvs.]

"Eventually you will get bored of going wee-ooo wee-ooo"

*Laughs in Kerry King*

[dalealanbryant]

Owning, setting up, and maintaining a Floyd Rose, requires a 'learning curve'. Lower-end guitars are equipped with a lower-end Floyd: the metals used in the various components, therein, are 'Zinc'-based alloys. Higher end guitars use a Floyd that is made of hardened-steel alloys. The zinc-based models', components, wear out relatively quickly.

[shadowfox_mcloud]

Funny hearing your say "If there's one that sells for 400$ new, and a guy is selling it for 200$ go for it" Because I just got a Ibanez rg470 Autumn Fade (400 new) from a guy on craigslist for 200. And I had no idea what a floyd rose even was all I knew is that polyphia uses it so I needed one. I tried tuning not knowing about the pieces on the nut and completely killed the string. So first string change I took all of the strings out by loosening the screws on the rose, Lost a piece on the nut that keeps the knobs from tuning it, Stripped the hole where the screws hold the strings (The previous owner had a wood block so I took out the peice by unscrewing it so I could take it out) So now it can only come halfway out tops, then after a 3 hour procedure I got the floyd flat, the strings tuned, so I strum my first chord on the guitar aaand its out of tune. So I spend the next 30 mins retuning readjusting the floyd over and over then It was late and I wasn't allowed to play it. But now that I actually watched how NOT to destroy my guitar and it sounds good, feels good and stays in tune

[GingerChristmas]

if you're going to restring it you should probably block off the trem block so the bridge wont flop back and forth as you remove the strings,

[gwhiz]

Doug Marks of Metal Method explains on one of his videos the easiest way to tune a Floyd is to start on the low E string and if it’s 3 cents flat tune it 3 cents sharp and go through all the strings like that. Usually after you do that a couple of times by the 3rd time you’ll only need to do that on the low E, A and D strings and tune the others to pitch and it’s done. I learned that lesson years ago while watching Doug’s video and it works every time 🎸

[coolbreeze]

Yep, setup cost for my FR is $0 'cause I learned to do it myself. It ain't rocket science. ;-)

[baconshreds]

For the under 400 dollar floyd rose guitars...simply move the springs in the back to the side of the bridge that needs higher resistance (the side with more tension), mine was 325 dollars and when i tried this method, i only needed to tune once every week. Definitely try this method.

[intoxication]

My dad has 6 guitars with real Floyd roses. He literally spent years practicing changing them and he can set them up sooo fast

[Okraknife]

I spent 20 years avoiding Floyd Rose and now I absolutely love them. I can play rock or metal with them or blues and country and make them sound like a Bigsby. Once you learn the tricks they are hard to beat.

[mattbortz]

Learn to set up your guitar by yourself. Then it's free. I wouldn't want somebody setting up my guitar

[daverockk]

I have a $300 Jackson Kelly that's rock solid.

[yaboirico]

my first electric guitar was a Floyd rose, used for $200 but i took it home for $175 and the high E was snapped, so I replaced all the strings, played around with it for a while until I found out the proper way to mess with the tunings lol. It was damn great, I looked up online and it sells for $300, but it is just great, i haven't played with any other Floyd Rose guitars, so I really don't know the true holy grail of the double locking tremolos. The guitar is a B.C. Rich Beast Platinum Pro Series, the main guitar I use, not completely set up xD I play at drop C and have space on the fine tuners to tune the C up to a D for D standard (it is also blocked off with a stack of pennies) which is friggn awesome, but there's this other tremolo company out there called "Coherent Sound In Light" which has the same functions of a Floyd, but without a lot of the cons such as not having to cut off the ball end, you don't have to mess with the screws that are with the springs to readjust the tuning, instead, you dial it in with a knob in the large cavity in the back.

[BottledupJake]

Charvels are my favorite. But had to settle with a Jackson JS32. Never had Floyd before so trying to figure it out haha. Thanks for the video!