Can This Save Your Floating Bridge? - The Tremolo Switch! 

Floating bridges can definitely be a little intimidating! The tremolo switch is a simple and cool solution 🎸👍 Enjoy :)

Man, I love you for making these videos. I would NEVER have discovered all these neat guitar gadgets without your channel.

It’s like bringing the Jazzmaster/Jaguar trem lock to a Strat. Very neat!

A $4 barrel lock for a door/gate works the same way. Coat the knobs in flex seal to alleviate noise.

Thanks for all you do. The reviews and tips make guitaring much more fun and easier.

That is a neat little gadget! Thanks for sharing Darrell!

Another great video. Thanks Darrell.

Thanks for showing us such a great invention!

Pretty neat tool! It's like the best of both world between a tremelno and an arming adjuster. I use arming adjusters a lot for situations with an D tuna, but you lose all fluttering with them. Tremolno is pretty nice too, but I've had issues with the thumb screws getting lose over time and even falling out unexpectedly.

Congrats on the channel, always good advice

Trevor Wilkinson solved the "scary trem" problem back in the 80's when he invented the VS 100-C convertible trem system. When you're not using it, it's a stoptail bridge; the moment you swing the arm forward, it converts to a floating trem, and switches back once you let it go again. Unfortunately, Gibson sued Wilkinson claiming that the VS 100-C violated the Steinberger JamTrem patent (which it didn't; they work in completely different ways) and somehow won. After that, the Wilkinson convertible became scarcer than hens teeth! It's too bad, too, because it really works, and will even let you finish a song if you break a string.

Always learn new stuff! Great Video

Well, it's kind of pricey but it does offer a relatively simple solution to what can be a frustrating problem. I'll give it a thumbs up.

I've got an LP and I'm just looking for a decent Tele, but I'll keep this thing in mind when I dare to do my first partscaster! Thanks, Darrell!

I use a stabilizer unit, even when a string breaks it still keeps the bridge in tune. Double-locking trem helps keep my guitars in-tune in the studio as well.

That's helpful thanks for sharing it Darrell

That’s a great tool. Thanks for sharing

That would be an absolute great stopper especially for changing strings (if you like it floating after the change) and you kept the back cover off. I use the Tremolo Stopper by FU-Tone as it's easy to install and not expensive. Works great and have it on 3 of my guitars. I get the one with the nylon screw. Just another option for you guys.

I definitely want some of these!

I literally laughed out loud when you disengaged the lock when the string was broken. I was not ready for how bad it would be!

$95 for such a small and simple part seems kinda insane.

My Yamaha RGX has one of these built into the trem itself. It has a thumbwheel to adjust the "ride height". Drop D is a matter of dialing in no pull back it, opening the locking nut, dropping the string, and relocking.

excited to try..🎸🤘

I use the Allparts Tremol-No. 3 settings free floating, only lower pitch, and bridge locked. Lock the bridge and changing strings a breeze. I now control my floyd rose.

I've been looking for a solution for this for a long time. so far the best I've seen was the "Tremolno", but this is cool too... thanks for showing it! if you have more solutions for this, please show us cos im looking for something to have it stop dive as well

Yeah, the ZPS2 thingy on the Ibanez is basically the same thing, though. Notice the metal bar at the bottom of the system. You could adjust your Edge Zero2 in a way that the trem block will rest on this metal bar and this functions as the backstop from then on. Pretty neat system. ;)

I have a Jackson S type with a Floyd. A few years back I installed a Hipshot tremsetter. Works well for me. That new device is kinda cool. What would really be cool is if Floyd Rose could come up with their own system to keep them in tune due to string breaks 🤔 Awesome video as always 👍

Interesting little Gadget there Daryl seems to do a fairly good job. If you're into using that particular Bridge Style.

Love the blue moon burst finish. I wish they made a S-Series in that color.

Little tip for changing all strings at a time, put a rubber eraser under the bridge to block it from falling inside the cavity

I use a Hipshot Tremsetter. I tighten all the way. Trem still floats, pulls up but there is more tension. The tone is better! Chords ring and stay in tune and you can do multi bends and tuning is stable. You do not have to switch on and off.

A nice tip for changing strings on floating trems: take the back plate covering the trem springs and slide it under the trem, locking it in place. Now you can take all your strings out and do what you gotta do.

Nice to see company's comming up with more reliable, robust and quality trem stabilization systems. In my defence, I'm a lefty and most of budget range lefty guitars are either equipped with cheap floyd ross licenced 2 point floaters or wilkinson vintage knockoffs with plethora of intonation and stability issues. My very first guitar was a jackson js32 dinky with a chewed up floyd pivot point. It was the only guitar I could find at the moment and was kinda brand new. Anyways, interacting with that guitar's floyd ross bridge scarred me for life. Even now, whenever I see a premium quality guitar equipped with a decent or high end floating bridge system, I can't help having qualms and intimidation, thanks to my past experiences.

Cool update to the tremsetter I had back in the early 90's on a strat ultra... Didn't much care for it so I removed it after about a year and never looked back. This might be a better version though....

Peavey HP Specials came with this kind of solution. Wonderful guitars. Shame they were discontinued.

I think this is neat compared to the black box, because it's smaller but the same, it doesn't let you float when activated. What about the various trem stabilizers that just hook into the spring claw and block? I would love a review on those.

Good demo, Darrell. I have a couple guitars with trems, and a couple with stop tails that don't move. Truthfully, regardless of type, I don't use a trem when playing, so don't have a lot of interest in this. I do like the simple, straightforward analog tech involved - despite being called a "switch," there's no electronics / batteries / electrical switches, so it's pretty simple, once you get the adjustments spot-on.

Hey Darrell! Cool blocking system, but do you think this would work with a vergatrem, too? I have a feeling that the block is too thin... Great video!

Fender have a Trem lock button on the Jaguar and jazzmaster Trems. Once set up correctly it does exactly the same think quite effectively as well.

Now that's a fancy door locker

Now THIS GUITAR is a superstrat! 24 frets, humbuckers, and a LOCKING VIBRATO, are all key in turning an s-type guitar into a true superstrat!!

interesting concept

I just got my first floating bridge guitar a week ago (G&L Comanche Tribute). Since it's an S-style guitar, I thought I would try out E flat tuning. I'm just now realizing why it took forever, and then also forever to go back ;-)

I had to laugh at that "what if you broke the D string?" portion. I've been playing almost 40 years and I've only ever broken the high E (and less than five times) so I've got to wonder what kind of abuse people are inflicting on their guitars? Should we report these people to Instrument Control? ;-) All kidding aside, I've always hated those very issues with floating trems, and having over 20 guitars, I might actually have to give this a try on one of them and see if it helps out. Another great post, Darrell. Cheers.

There are a view stoppers out there that sort of half work and are gimmicks. This for the first time seems like a clever device.

Hi Darrell, in your video on the "Fatal Flaw of Floating Trems" you noted the issue where high bends on the G string result in it going flat until the bar is used again. Does this still occur when this device is active, or because it's no longer 'floating' does it not impact it? Thanks!

Hey Darrell, I have a couple of question. Have you heard of Big Lou Wide Nut Guitars? If so, would you consider reviewing them?

Would love to see a video of your thoughts on the Tremmory please. No drilling and super simple installation.

looks like a barrel bolt for 1/16th the price would do the trick. Good to know this works though! Gives great ideas for DIY projects

Hi Darrell pls do a video where you are using the floating system or rather abusing the edge 2 trem in the rg 370 ahmz ..wana see the edge 2 trem playibility.

So.. when you have it engaged to dive only, and you press down on the trem bar and let go of it, does it make a noise when it comes back and hits the stop? Like metal on metal impact?

Would love to see reviews and your thoughts on other trem systems out there... Super Vee, Trem King, Stienberger... Do they avoid some of the problems of a Floyd type system and do they introduce new problems, and most importantly, how well do they sound and play.

I cant believe these aren't in production no more. Im trying to find something like this for my Headless Kiesel tremolo.

Nice new titles

Hey can I put looking nut to guitar with no tremolo bridge?? Just to secure the strings, and for display reasons

big fan from India!!

You know, this actually isn't a bad idea. I have a floating Wilkinson bridge and this could be a good addition. I bought the Nut Buster gimmick you had on the show and was less than impressed so hopefully this product turns out well. I might just have to get in on the Kickstarter.

That's a sweet fricken guitar

Is there anything like that device that you can use for the ibanez got the exact model and am wanting to block it temporarily

I believe Ibanez has a similar system called ZPS for some of their Edge-trem equipped guitars, one example is the RG350DXZ

Nice concept, but is there a gizmo that blocks the trem completely? Thanks for your upload 👍🙏🐱

i just bought one of this devices but has a spring on it so you can do a little bit of high trem moving

I wonder how compatible this would be on an older 6 screw Fender trem. Have you reviewed the Mag-Lock setup?

I hope you can do a video on budget amps :3

Always hated mine on my 1990 Gibson M3 STD. It never stayed in tune and the locking nuts threaded. Ughhhhh. I'm finally blocking it after 31 years, had enough; the guitar itself still sounds great and plays effortlessly.

With a device like this installed, can you remove the string lock up by the knot? I’m really wavering about getting a Floyd Rose but the disadvantages are so many. I’m really curious if you can remove that string lock

I have a tremol-no in my floyd dean and its the best when it comes to changing strings

My made in Japan, 1986 Westone spectrum LX (198-mbk) came with a bendmaster trem with a locking nut on the headstock, & I could down tune it allday without disturbing the tuning though, I cannot remember if the ttem bar only lowered the pitch or if it both raised & lowered the pitch? I lost everything, 22 guitars, one of the 1st five Steinway & Son's pianos which all shipped out on the same truck in the 1890's. All due to fraud! I dearly miss my Westy!!!

Darrell, video idea: tips on being a floating bridge for Halloween!

I have mine set up so I can drop the low E to D with the fine adjustment knob. There is enough play in there if you tune it standard with it tightened nearly all the way down. I had a Laguna with a lever on the bridge that was for doing the same thing, but it wasn't perfect. It dropped the string but still required some tuning adjustment after, despite being advertised as drop tuning on the fly. I really liked that guitar, but the Laguna version of the Floyd Rose was kinda crap. The handle was always really loose cus it just snapped in rather than screwing down.

The version of the stab i'm installing on my guitars has a reverse spring instead of a switch. The bridge lies on the stab permanently and the spring sustain the tune. With the wammie bar you can pull the bridge and band up pushing the stab backward. The only cons is that the system becomes a little bit harder to play. Try it out, you will be surprised. Just few euros on aliexpress. Let me know. Ps the section of the cavity for the back screw is too thiny to hold the tension. Normally needs a little reinforce on the wood at the pickups side.

what kind of bridge system is on the Ibanez? Looks unique from the back.

i been adjusting gtr with a Edge Zero II bridge on a 7 string all six string seem to be good except the low b string buzzes any helpful tricks

This is why I love my deluxe plus Strat with a Fender/ Floyd Rose. I put in a Hipshot Tremsetter 25 yrs ago, set the bridge to float, and set the intonation. Never touched it since. Can make the strings so out of it and then let it go. Still in tune. Can you the crappest strings, they stay in tune. I use Fender 9's now. Only bad thing about this guitar is the color BUTT UGLY YELLOW. But after 25 yrs of relicing the color is fading kinda cool looking. Trem still works perfectly, guitar works perfectly.

Can you make a honest review about Epiphone Les Paul special VE? I'm looking for a cheap guitar with humbucker with decent quality.

How hard is it to engage the plunger after the string has broken? Seems like you'd have to push on the block a little to get it engaged?

Sad is prototype only - please let us know when available

Does it work on vegatrem? Can you engage the switch after breaking a string?

I like your videos, you're doing a great job. The gadget you brought today may be useful but there is TREMMORY, works better. Have a nice one.

Proud he is Canadian! 🇨🇦

Can You Go From Half-Step Down Songs And The Tune Up To Standard With This ?

I just jammed a piece of wood in mine, worked good enough.

Pretty cool! The only thing I don't like is that you have to keep the back cover off.

Would be interesting to see this happen on a floating system with string locks. Snap a string, then push the stop bar out “back into tune”, play and then change the string, and see where you’re at tuning wise when removing the bar. Kind of like a lifeline for floating trems in live situation.

I was going to buy that guitar next year

I thought that Ibanez at the start had the ZPS system which in itself helps with most of the floating trem drawbacks?

Darrell, you should get a Kahler-d guitar to review, those bridges are cool!

Does the guitar stay in tune with the switch activated if the guitar is in F standard tuning?

Hi Darrell, have you tried a Tremol-no? How does it comprare to this?

Please tell then, what to do about Ibanez or any other guitar where is not possible to install such. Please make video about floating bridges (Floyd rose or IbanezZero), how to fix the this "tuning pain", or at least how to do it easy way...

i just bought a jem junior with it and i already wanna block the bridge if i stair at it to hard it goes out of tune

You should try the Tremmory - I'd like to see your opinion on that one!

Hey thanks for the video dude. I guess you have to put holes in your guitar you have to drill to put new screws in I think for most people if they have you know guitars they really like that they don't want to you know do something like that that's non-reversible in the sense that you'll have holes in your guitar I guess that's not an option. And I guess it's not an option for bixby's? I'm not sure on that point. But my Bixby stays in tune I have a hollow body scratch and it works fine it's a trapeze type I think it's the seven and the Bixby seven seems to do what it's supposed to do. Still getting used to it even though I have it for months now I'm not or have never been a trim user. I had a trim on my first guitar which was a 69 Gibson SG standard it had a Bixby on it but you couldn't use it. Brought it back to the place where I bought it in Manhattan in the music district. They used to be a music district for my mistaken it was 47 and 48th street. Every music store that you can imagine and can imagine was at that two blocks in manhattan. There was one great guitar store that's not there anymore. This guitar store was called we buy and sell used guitars. A perfect name for exactly what they did. Their store was literally Walter wall from floor to ceiling used guitars. All different ranges. At the time I paid $325 for that 69 Gibson SG standard with a case. If you take that money and fiddle it to a with inflation to today it was an expensive guitar. Although at that time which was about 1981 I would estimate there wasn't much there wasn't much call for gibson's. When I needed to sell it I was offered a gig in California San Francisco to play drums for a band. That was my main instrument and I guess still is. I play professionally for years whereas the guitar I just taught myself so I can write my own music. But I couldn't sell it for anything this was already 83 nobody wanted to buy it. I ended up trading it in at Berkeley music store in Berkeley California for $240 worth of credit. Of which I bought symbols got a really good deal on the symbols though they were all zildjian brand new high hats and use the ride and crash. But like I said it wasn't much demand for that guitar. Boy I wish I had it now lol. It'd be worth a little bit more money I think than the 325 even with inflation but it is what it is. My first guitar after 35 years or 32 years whatever of not touching the guitar. I had gone blind in the interim and really stop playing guitar at that point. And my first guitar I bought again was a used SG special gibson. I called it my special special cuz it was a special order wine red high gloss. 2005. In 2005 the SG special came with what they call the one finish which was really a faded satin finish. Two humbuckers 490 t and 490r. Didn't really like them at first but I want to love them. Anyway I love that guitar it got me started again I now have six and this week will be purchasing number 7. I'm going for the tribute 59 less Fall by epiphone. Seems like a really good deal for that price. Anyway this became more of a short anyway sincerely yours, Bob the blind bedroom guitarist sincerely yours, Bob the blind bedroom guitarist

My strat has a Floyd Rose and keeps tune very well but the body isn’t routed for it. I like my action low but because of no route I can’t pull up but only push down like a normal strat trem.

My first guitar at 12 years old was a Kramer w/ a Floyd Rose II tremolo. It looked really cool, but keeping the intonation/action/etc. right was a nightmare.

Shouldn't it lock from both sides for it to maintain pitch even after tuning?

I'm wonder about investing in one of those add-on tremolos that Guitarfetish sells. Putting one on a Telecaster, for instance. (Yay, Blue Jays!)

it'll be fair to mention that there are a couple of alternative systems on the market. I've been using the Rockinger Black Box Tremolo Stabilizer for years, because it is very cheap. All-pats offer a more complex version for 3 times the price. Never-the-less, the fzg solutions appears to be very stable and consistent. And the real value-add to the exististing systems is a consistent quick change option, which is not as elegant with the existing solutions. Well done and very promising. Definitely worth a glance

Have you checked out the Super-Vee Mag Lok?

Zps-3 on Ibanez did a good job keeping the string break tune loss problem. Wish they still used it