QUOTE (FreePizza @ Jun 10 2021, 02:05 PM)
Thanks Mertay, appreciated. The stock trem still plays pretty good although it's a little stiff. I've heard good things about the gotoh also. Better metals and floats very nicely. I also really like the gold on white look. Guess I'll have to look at changing out the machine heads soon too, lol.
Threre's plenty of factors affecting bridge stiffness
Mainly the type and number of springs and the strings gauge you use. There are also "point zero" systems. I had not much experience with teh jem itself but I do service lot's of Ibanez guitars. I think that their zero point system makes the bridge quite stiff. It's a compromise. From one side we have better tuning stability on bends but from the other side some of the fluency in whammy bar motion is gone.
Sometimes reducing the number of springs to 2 and using something really serious like Gotoh PSP springs will give great results.
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