Everyone is making floyds sound so complicated when they're really not.
I mean they're no worse than any other form of floating two point pivot trem, I mean it's exactly the same principle, except here you cut off the string ends, that's really all there is to it, absolutely any of the problems mentioned here you will get on any other trem, these aren't Floyd issues, they're floating issues.
Also they're easy to setup, there's really not that much to learn, it can even be done pretty quickly.
Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
Don't get me wrong - they do what they do better than anything else, and there's a lot of stuff you can only do with a Floyd. It's just that they are better suited to a lighter touch and the more controlled player.
As for Floyds needing a lighter touch, I'm sorta on the fence about that one, I pick really hard and don't get the flurb I know you're referring to, I really think that's more a case of angle of attack than anything else, as your fingers would have more of a pulling motion than a plectrum.
chris77 wrote:
I kinda think of them as the guitarist's equivalent of a swimming pool. You have to learn how to swim first, but if you use it frequently it is a wonderful thing to have. But if you can't swim or you only want to dip your feet in the water every now and then, well, then It really isn't worth the schlepp.
I started on a Floyd, jumping right into the deep end ? Then again I learnt to swim the same way, when a relative figured I wasn't taking to the slow and steady style of things she just kinda threw me in the deep side ?
As for the double stop thing, you can get stuff like the trem setter, or that thing ESP used to make which rectifies that problem.
