This Can Change the Guitar World 

whats the nut on the guitar?

i can def hear a difference in the sound. The traditional whammy bar tremelo has bigger effect on the sound sounds better imho.

Transposing tremolo is not new, have a look at steinberger guitars outside of there spirit range.

@@greatcornholio5198 I discuss this at length in the video.

@@andrefludd touché, I made an ass out of myself due to assumptions. Some exiting developments in the transposing world at the moment. I have this saved to watch later tonight.

Whilst I completely agree with you about embracing new innovations and technology, I'd hesitate to blanket-call vintage as garbage. There's a reason why many of the world's greatest guitarists still use vintage despite some obvious foibles. No one would describe a 200 year-old violin as garbage so why a 50-year-old electric guitar? That said, I really hope Rick Toone releases this amazing trem to the market… at an affordable price. EDIT: I've just read on RT's website that this tremolo is, 'Available for volume OEM licensing'.

I do think he's sometimes going overboard and being a bit too anti tradition, and you kinda enable it in a way. I think there needs to be a balance, somewhere between the overtly revolutionary like Andre and the overtly conservative traditionalists like Rhett Shull

@@Mr.Goldbar For the record, if someone wants to send me a 1960s tele, strat, or gold top les paul, I will review the hell out of it.

Yet, some of that vintage gear garbage is still unmatchable even with todays tech. Would be nice if that trem was available as standalone, got 2 strat style guitars that could use a trem with better tuning stability, also love the pitch thing, even for metal it can be annoying when pushing a fast divebomb or pulling a pitch up to far.

​@@JoeBaermannthe gear isnt unmatched, the cultural context that is. Vintage instruments seem incredible because of all the incredible artists that used them as tools for creating incredible music.

Good luck, Rick Toone's stuff is all custom all to order, i wouldn't count on it unless in super limited super expensive runs (especially that something like that 100% needs to be perfectly calibrated to guitar's scale and radius to keep tune while using the bar) Edit: my best bet for it to be more available is if Rick Toone would collab with some semicustom brand like abasi guitars or aristedes

yeah unless some big company approaches rick to collab with him, then this invention is as useless as garbage @@Burbund

@@Burbund Rick Toone's own website states the following: 2024 brings significant change. I am actively seeking manufacturing partners and volume OEM licensing arrangements. If you are a manufacturer or investor who understands the potential, please contact me. That said, his instruments are art and collector's pieces, not guitars for the average musician. And his prices certainly show it. So I wouldn't be too surprised if it eventually made it's way out of "only 10 people in the world will ever play this bridge" purgatory, but I also wouldn't be surprised if the bridge itself cost as much as an upper mid-range guitar with already great hardware.

@@Burbund I'd be surprised if the trem unit is under 900 usd...his guitars are expensive (very cool tho).

@@user-ri3gh6yb5k yep, i've been eyeballing his stuff for almostly a decade amd hist startimg price has always been around $12k

Not new really just different lol

This is not a new idea

EVH made good use of it on 5150. Leslie West had one but didn't use it to transpose song keys like Edward

Ridiculous pricing.

Which means 5000,- €; or more, depending on import tax. It looks solid and if the wood's been dried over 15 years, it's worth it. I've had such and even more expensiv strats. Once you've done the fine tuning, there's no need for any readjustment, even after 10 years. Some '80s Fenders needed readjusting every three years. Of course you can spare that, but then they get bad out of tune when you only look at the whammy bar.

​@@MichaelWinter-ss6lxYou've never had a $3000 Vigier, obviously.

true. another overhyped product for the consumerist "musician".

Worth every penny and much of that price is determined by the cost of the materials as well as the time invested in craftsmanship. These days $5k is the new $3k. Moral of the story: you get what you pay for. Rick’s 67 is a solid win-win.

He never mentioned it was a floating bridge. If you have to compensate for string tension isn't, we'll see

@@einarabelc5 huh good point. Maybe its better than a floating bridge.

As a [floating] Floyd Rose exclusive player I've never had an issue with this, I don't know why it's such a meme. I'd have to actively go out of my way and really press my hand on it to purposefully alter the pitch from just palm muting.

I think it would still go out of tune if he's able to pull up like that?

Exactly my first thought. Kahler was awesome., it had too many things you could adjust and tweak making it was too complicated for the “typical” guitar player

Thanks for the support! It’s much appreciated :)

I was thinking the same thing

Rick's bridge is waaay past what a Kahler is can do. I hope you get to try it. It's life changing.

I noticed too, that like a Kahler, the sustain dies pretty quickly after you start using the trem, which is too bad. The other thing I didn't like about the Kahler when I had one was the lack of "positive steering" - meaning - you don't get the same amount of pitch change for the amount you move the arm as you would with a trad trem or Floyd. Kinda like power steering, which makes it less responsive. This new design sure looks comfortable though!

Fantastic engineering but it tickles me that it immediately reminds of a lap steel sound😅

Arguably. Kahler still has a locking nut (which WILL give more stability than locking tuners) and the bridge itself can be locked during the string changes. In addition, Kahler has a HUGE pull-up and dive range.

No, it won't work like that. The string block moves independently of the bridge saddles, so it's still going to be wobbling around when the strings are bent or tuned. Double stop bends will come out flat because the cam is going to be moved by the change in tension, but you could just finger the interval you want and use the bar to get those sounds. Essentially this is a Kahler trem that's had its parts rearranged to fit in a regular stratocaster. The cam is taking the place of the trem block and then the strings feed through over the saddles. It also has less range than the fulcrum design, but the tradeoff is that moving the bridge retains the intervals between strings instead of throwing them all completely out of tune with one another, meaning that you can do a lot of slide licks fairly authentically.

I probably shouldn't be searching this with my wallet out.

Also check out the new Strandberg X Allen Schaller Salen APS Monochrom. Super sick one of a kind design from Ola and Alan.

it probably does shift the other strings when bending, otherwise that would be a major selling point.

@@jamesha175 I agree.

Does this thing flutter?

@@rocketPower047 Yes. Andre shows this in his other video.