So to my ears it takes alittle icepickyness from the maple strat with a little warmer sound. I just ordered some tusqs too, primarily because I’m going from fixed bridge on my strat back to floating trem and want to have some more stability for tuning, I also have a maple neck and was worried about changing the tonality too much, alittle taking of the highs I’m ok because sometimes it’s overly bright also but I don’t want it to make it “lifeless” been scouring RU-vid for some demos primarily with maple necks, good video! Unfortunately I am one of those guilty leaving my tuner on during shows 😢
Hahaha, well you aren't the only one to leave the tuner on. It's just a pet peeve of mine. I have kept the Tusq on the guitar and it really sounds great....!!!
Just curious, your fine with the resonance, and the tusq you didn’t feel alter your tone too much aside from taming some highs perhaps? Do you have a zinc or steel tremolo block in?