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affects the tone of your guitar........How does your floyd rose guitar sounds compared to your quot;other tremoloquot; ones?

Any type of fulcrum based tremolo, such as a strat tremolo, floyd rose tremolo, wilkinson, tend to make the guitar less acoustically resonant than a stop tailpiece such as a tune-o-matic or telecaster type hardtail bridge. You can put the two side by side, and the hardtail will be louder acoustically.

Amplified, a Floyd sounds thinner than a strat type tremolo. If you block the floyd so that it doesn't float and only pushes down, that gives it a fuller tone. Though the tone is thinner, it has more clarity.

I've only owned one guitar with a Floyd. It was a nice Ibanez. Picked it out of a roomful of similar guitars.

Loved it in the shop but when I got it home and compared to my Strats with vintage trems, I felt that the guitar with the Floyd had been robbed of some sustain, some bass and some lower mids.

I loved the way the guitar stayed in tune but I just didn't think it sounded as good as my other non-Floyd guitars.

Lew

hmmm my jackson seems to be rediculously resonant and it has a floyd rose. If I don't tighten my plates down on the back of the guitar well enough they will vibrate and make noise even if I hit just one string because the whole guitar is resonant. I've never had that happen on my old fender or my paul reed smith and I consider it to be resonant.

My Kramer and Wolfgang plays louder and vibrates a great deal more than my standart strat.
The tremsound on the std is warmer though.
The Kramer is a freak, it is big and fat, I think that it is the fattest strat guitar I ever had.
But I like both systems.

It depends a lot on the make of the bridge, how the body is routed (recessed vs. non-recessed,) and how you set it up. My opinion is that a non-recessed routing and a good quality Floyd set for downward use only is the best way to go. With this setup, I don't believe there is any loss of tone or sustain compared to a hardtail or vintage style tremolo. I agree with Rid, my Wolfgang sounds warm and fat when it's played unplugged. Now, if you have a floating Floyd, that's a different story. When you lose the solid coupling between the bridge and body, my feeling is that you will hear a difference in tone and sustain. Even if it's floating but blocked, I still feel like it's not as optimal as a Floyd that's set flush on a non-recessed body.

The material the bridge is made of plays a role as well. I like the Schaller Floyd best because it has a sleeker profile and a warmer tone, while still being every bit as good as the original in terms of feel and performance. The original Floyds tend to sound a bit brighter, but they are very high quality units. Most licensed copies just don't cut it, with the exception of the Peavey Wolfgang licensed Floyd and some of the high end Ibanez ones.

Ryan

Well, my BC Rich cant be played unpluged, but all my guitars with non floating trems all are very loud unpluged, nearly as loud as an acoustic.

that cant be good for your tone, but hey, my platium pro is for metal, not cleans.
Thats why i got my squier.

when i read this post some of dubts clear for me, i use to thought that when the guitar had less resonant it had more sustain, that was the case of my two main guitars a peavey tracer with floyd and my ibanez with floyd too, the peavey sound it a lot more than my ibanez disconnected both of them so i thought that the ibanez had more sustain than the peavey. no i dont think that, thanx you guys