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Brett
I'm looking to get a new guitar bridge, i've been wanting a Tremolo or a Floyd Rose but i don't have the slightest clue what the difference is.
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Floyd Rose is a designer/manufacturer of "tremolo" systems. The actual effect you get by messing around with the whammy bar has absolutely nothing to do with tremolo, which is a periodic fluctuation in volume, so I avoid calling it that.
Many other manufacturers license the design of the Floyd (which is patented). The Ibanez Edge is one popular (some may say superior) "knock-off". Most people simply refer to any licensed Floyd Rose bridge as a "Floyd".
Floyds are a type of "floating bridge", which means that the bridge does not rest against anything when in the neutral position... it "floats". Other bridge systems rest against the face of the guitar. A floating bridge allows you to pull up on the bar, raising the pitch of the strings, instead of just pressing down on it to lower the pitch.
The Floyd is also unique in that it is a double locking bridge. That means that the strings, once tuned, are locked into place at both the bridge and the nut. This provides for increased tuning stability.
If you are looking to replace the bridge in a guitar without any sort whammy bar with a Floyd (or any other vibrato system), you are going to have to significantly modify the guitar. It would be much cheaper and probably wiser to simply buy a new guitar already equipped with a whammy bar.
Floyd Rose is a designer/manufacturer of "tremolo" systems. The actual effect you get by messing around with the whammy bar has absolutely nothing to do with tremolo, which is a periodic fluctuation in volume, so I avoid calling it that.
Many other manufacturers license the design of the Floyd (which is patented). The Ibanez Edge is one popular (some may say superior) "knock-off". Most people simply refer to any licensed Floyd Rose bridge as a "Floyd".
Floyds are a type of "floating bridge", which means that the bridge does not rest against anything when in the neutral position... it "floats". Other bridge systems rest against the face of the guitar. A floating bridge allows you to pull up on the bar, raising the pitch of the strings, instead of just pressing down on it to lower the pitch.
The Floyd is also unique in that it is a double locking bridge. That means that the strings, once tuned, are locked into place at both the bridge and the nut. This provides for increased tuning stability.
If you are looking to replace the bridge in a guitar without any sort whammy bar with a Floyd (or any other vibrato system), you are going to have to significantly modify the guitar. It would be much cheaper and probably wiser to simply buy a new guitar already equipped with a whammy bar.
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