To Whammy Or Not To Whammy? |
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Sep 26 2011, 11:14 PM
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Guitars with the whammy bar looks like a lot of fun with dive bombs and mid air "dimebag" harmonic squeels, etc!
But how much do they affect your playing or tuning? Raise the bridge position? I heard some even lock the tremolo down in place and get rid of the whammy? So there's different types such as the floyd rose, zero edge, etc. What do you use? love or dislike about them? This post has been edited by Azzaboi: Sep 26 2011, 11:16 PM --------------------  Play Games Arcade Take a break, Play Games! Play the best free online flash games at Aaron's Game Zone like Bloons Tower Defense 4! |
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Sep 27 2011, 12:09 AM
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I don't like whammy bar much, but if I chose - it would certainly be a Low Pro edge model !
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Sep 27 2011, 01:20 AM
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Great question.
 I am interested, as well, to see the responses!
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Sep 27 2011, 07:12 AM
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Thanks for the feedback everyone!
As for the Hellraiser, jstcrsn, I heard it's really hot, high gain, pure metal. For metal only I think it would be an ideal pick, still have yet to try one out. -------------------- Play Games Arcade Take a break, Play Games! Play the best free online flash games at Aaron's Game Zone like Bloons Tower Defense 4! |
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Sep 27 2011, 08:16 AM
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I use Les Paul... so I'm not a big fan of whammy bar..
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Sep 27 2011, 08:23 AM
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I got one guitar with a whammy and one that is locked. Sure you can do alot of fun stuff with the whammy but it is not that necessary.
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Sep 27 2011, 08:26 AM
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QUOTE (superize @ Sep 27 2011, 04:23 AM)  I got one guitar with a whammy and one that is locked. Sure you can do alot of fun stuff with the whammy but it is not that necessary. I had an Ibanez in the past and it was locked. It never got out of tune in shows or rehearsals thanks to the locked system. -------------------- My lessons
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Sep 27 2011, 03:24 PM
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I can't live without the whammy bar! if it's missing I feel like I'm naked or something,
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Sep 27 2011, 03:27 PM
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I use the whammy on my Ibanez mainly (well, I mainly use my Ibanez most of thetime lol), and the action is the lowest of all, and it doesn't go out of tune. Great axe.
My strat also has a whammy (obviously), but I don't use it much. Stays in tune perfectly too. -------------------- Guitars:
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Sep 27 2011, 05:14 PM
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I love every kind of guitar, but whammy is the thing that I love the most. I use Schaller Floyd Rose and original Floyd Rose both are amazing
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Sep 28 2011, 02:17 AM
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i used to hate floyd roses, but they are pretty good for some things, i would love to have a guitar with a floyd in fact.
but right now i got two fixed bridges that i love, and my strat has a floating but vintage tremolo system. --------------------  Check my Instructor Profile Rockers! Got a Blog too!, www.adriantracks.com Follow me on facebook and youtube! -Youtube   |
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Sep 28 2011, 03:41 AM
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QUOTE (Daniel Realpe @ Sep 27 2011, 11:24 AM) I can't live without the whammy bar! if it's missing I feel like I'm naked or something, There's some types of vibrato you just can't do with the fingers...also the dive bombs are fun I didn't remember this clinic! I like his way of using the whammy bar! -------------------- My lessons
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Sep 28 2011, 07:13 AM
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I TOTALLY recommend his 1990 album called guess what....'Michael Lee Firkins'
 but man...there's a tremendous magic happening there
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Sep 28 2011, 12:24 PM
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I don't really like whammy that much, but I like to use vintage tremolos on starts for simple tremolo/vibrato effects. Dive bombs, and all, not really interested in those.
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