Yes Whammy! Every Guitar Tremolo Type Compared

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The whammy bar-or wigglestick as our friends at 60 Cycle Hum like to call it-is one of the most iconic pieces of guitar hardware ever created. Think about it, what would Jimi Hendrix sound like without his strat trem, or Eddie Van Halen without his dive bombs?
There are a ton of different tremolo systems available both on stock guitars and in the aftermarket world, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages (cough-cough, restringing a Bigsby).
So this week, Ryan, joined by special guest and Hippo Campus guitar tech Kai Brewster, decided to dive into all the different tremolo system types he could find, and talk about whats good-and bad-about each of 'em.
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25 янв 2023

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@longemd Год назад

Speaking of stringing a Bigsby, I really appreciate Stringjoy's extra string length. That makes the job a little easier. Thanks.

@scottmacphee35 Год назад

You hit my favorites. I definitely use the whammy bar for warbles rather than dive bombs, but that's just due to the type of music I enjoy playing. The stock Fender Jazzmaster tremolo can work brilliantly. It just takes a good setup that gives you a steeper break angle across the bridge. I use Stringjoy .010-.048 strings on my Jazzmaster and Jaguar, so nothing too heavy, and I shimmed the neck on each about a degree. The Bigsby is not THAT hard to string up. I just keep a Leatherman with me and crimp the ball ends. I hear about tuning stability problems with Bigsbys, but both of mine hold pitch well. Try gently filing your bridge saddle slots to remove any tiny metal burrs. The Stratocaster tremolo is a thing of beauty. I float mine and love it. It does make string bends harder. Great video, fellas. Many thanks!

@theonlyalexdossantos Год назад

Fender offset trem system has been perfect for me. Never goes out of tune no matter what you do to it. My strat strings on the other hand go half sharp half flat from looking at it the wrong way.

@brentlutz9710 Год назад

In my experience a Bigsby with a roller bridge and roller nut, and strings tied with a Luthier's Knot or locking tuners has no greater instability than a Floyd Rose with locking nut. The only benefit the Floyd had that I have found are the fine tuners for adjusting between songs. I agree spring noise is a big part of the Strat sound, but properly played a Strat trem can be very subtle and fairly stable.

@paultravis352 Год назад

Worth mentioning G&L trems, which are generally like re-engineered fender trems. Their strat-style trem is one of my favorites

@doe-zen-awf Год назад

4:54 im sold

@SagebrushBands Год назад

I have guitars with every system you tested except the Vibrola. I also have Stetsbar and Duesenberg vibrato equipped guitars and really thought these would be mentioned. Hipshot and Floyd Rose also offer hardware to mitigate several "cons" mentioned in your discussions.

@danpugatch 9 месяцев назад

Bigbsy guy here, I never liked the Strat trem, but I also didn't know you could adjust it until this video... Great video guys, I couldn't stop laughing during the Floyd Rose demo 😀

@billgaber4282 Год назад

Granted I'm primarily a bassist, but I have not enjoyed any trem until my Squier VI which uses the Mustang/Jazzmaster style. I immediately had the bridge replaced and my awesome tech installed a roller bridge and properly shimmed the neck for more break-over angle; the result works wonderfully! The Fender VI improves it by adding a lock and the arm actually mounts rather than the Squier's mere friction fit, but that's effectively a $4000 upgrade! In the 80's I had an Ibanez X-body with a genuine Floyd Rose but the string tension bent the pegs that act as the pivot points so not only was tuning stability a problem but the action and intonation suffered. That's what taught me to say naughty words. 😝

@BobFarley 9 месяцев назад

Nice show. Good to know about the trems, things I didn't. Bigsby had been my fave, for the subtlety. Stringing was a challenge. I sold it because the Gretsch it was on didn't have a swell-friendly volume knob. Been looking at other guitars, but nothing has brought joy. So, I do have a Boss pedal with an expression pedal-controllable octave that will give the same effect, plus there's no tuning stability issues, other than you have to be sure to bring the pedal all the way back to get back to regular tune. Till I find the perfect guitar to add to the family, that'll do. Thanks to your show here, looks like I'm looking for the first good guitar I had, the Jazzmaster, or maybe a Strat.....

@71Roadking Год назад

String thru Bigsby is the treat.

@jacksonmarshallkramer5087 11 месяцев назад

If you change one string at a time and tune to pitch, stretch, and tune to pitch before going to the next string, Floyds and no problem. I start at low E. No spring adjustment required.

@marcraygun6290 10 месяцев назад

The vibrola on my 335 copy works fine

@BTBystrom Год назад

For Bigsby string shift, use a StringRay tool and there are no problems in changing strings what so ever! ;) It's cheap to buy and solve your problem :)

@simonjhudson7378 Год назад

The Vibramate String Spoiler has a similar purpose which also helps massively. Either should solve the stringing problem.

@CarlGulbransen-qr4xm 10 месяцев назад

You have been seriously neglected. You need to see and use a RTO Tremolo. This is next level technology that you need to aware of.

@rupsvlogs9288 7 месяцев назад

Where can I buy these kind of tremolo

@anthonychilds8193 Год назад

WHO LET THE DOG OUT? WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO? c'mon ya'll, that still plays.

@Stringjoy Год назад

How do you whammy? Let us know down here!

@DapperHesher Год назад

DigiTech Whammy/DT (for the extreme stuff) and a Gamechanger Bigsby (for the subtle vibrato) on the pedalboard. 😁 For real vibratos, the Ibanez Edge Zero can't really be beat. All the stability of the Floyd Rose, with a variety of user experience improvements.

@DennisSheaPRM Год назад

Bigsby!

@RancidAmputation123 Год назад

Floyd rose (and a gotoh ge1996t)

@williamfollett2930 Год назад

2 Bigsby's (love them) with no tuning stability issues. And two jazzmaster-style trems, but I prefer the Bigsby.

@shoryuXE10 Год назад

mustang's fender dynamic vibrato goes out of tune if you so much as LOOK at it wrong. locked mine up as soon as i got the tools to do so. steinberger's transtrem is worth mentioning too, being able to bend chords in tune. really cool stuff.

@boonefiddler Год назад

General B and the Whiz, baby!

@petevadelnieks Год назад

You guys really need to try a Duesenberg Les Trem 2. Almost as good as a Mastery.

@stlbryson Год назад

Not Tremolos....Just sayin' Correct me if I'm wrong but Tremolo does not affect pitch. Leo was wrong all those years ago and we've all just gone along with it. Change my mind 😉

@Stringjoy Год назад

No you're right, there are a lot of counterintuitive names in the guitar space, but they've stuck and that's just what it's called now. In strings, "gauge" is totally misused, it's merely the size in 1,000ths of an inch, has nothing to do with wire gauges. Also, 80/20 "bronze" is not bronze at all, it's brass.

@JayDuuubb 9 месяцев назад

It's what the community calls them. So regardless of what the technical definition is, your valid opinion is made invalid. Tremolo sounds better than vibrato anyway

@billy_pirie Год назад

🎯

@BrunodeSouzaLino Год назад

Every guitar tremolo type...except the Maestro Vibrola, Kahler and Wilkinson. In a sense, the Kahler is a better Floyd Rose. Not only can you lock it by simply tighetning a set screw, but the saddles move in 6 directions. That allows you to adjust not only intonation and string height, but also string spacing.

@Peaceful_Days Год назад

Digitech Whammy is the best tremolo system. Never has tuning issues.

@Stringjoy Год назад

Fair enough! Haha

@Meetlofe Год назад

You guys didn't mention the Floyd Rose Speedloader. Many of these trems were sold back in the day and nobody makes strings for them any more...not for years. You think you could look into manufacturing a few sets for those of us that don't want to pay $50+ for 15 year old strings on eBay? You'd make a lot of people happy and keep a bunch of guitars out of landfills.

@Stringjoy Год назад

We did not-IMHO those were a terrible crime committed against the guitar community, I can't tell you how many folks I've heard from that bought guitars from them which are unusable after they discontinued the strings. We are not able to make strings for those (and neither are most/any companies) due to the way they were made initially, tooling up to do so would cost over $100,000 which you would never get back out of it. I assume they thought, "Brilliant! We can sell them this guitar and they'll have no choice but to buy strings from us forever," without thinking through the consequences to all those players if and when they discontinued the strings.

@Meetlofe Год назад

@@Stringjoy Bummer. Thanks for the reply, anyway. Even years after they stopped making the strings they kept promising that they'd be back in production soon. That was several years ago.

@belo1971 Год назад

The best one ? Duesenberg ones 😎

@pierref.1294 7 месяцев назад

"Every Guitar Tremolo Type Compared" => Shows 3 Types ... plays each one for 10 secs ... 😅 Just to name a few radicaly different types : 2 points, Kahler, vibrola, sideway, Les trem, even the Mustang, which was on display, guys come on !

@MayorMcCheese2000 Год назад

I think given the right strings.... looking at you guys.... that the Kahler trem is superior to all others, especially their multiscale pro version... just saying... gada have the right strings though...

@Mike_Rogge 10 месяцев назад

I am the whammy bar

@Doc_Holaday Год назад

The only reason I like this video is because of the Floyd Rose shenanigans.

@maxhighstein Год назад

Vega Trem. Learn.

@JayDuuubb 9 месяцев назад

It's dissapointing how poorly the Floyd rose was represented in this video. It's by far better than all the other options in terms of reliability, tuning stability, subtlety, and extreme usage. They are also not hard to tune or setup, you just have to learn how. Most people with bad opinions of Floyd roses just never had a quality Floyd rose, and only played a "licensed by Floyd rose'" model or other low end guitars with cheap replicas on them. Floyd rose is great and you should revisit it with the same level of treatment you gave the others.