FLOYD ROSE STYLE TREMOLO INFORMATION

Wazzup dudes...!
wahh,,lama ga update info nih,,hehe,,ok sekarang saya punya sedikit informasi buat kamu yang merasa pusing 7 keliling untuk menset up gitar elektrik kamu dengan bridge floating FLOYD ROSE style.

Memang, kalo dibandingkan dengan model bridge yang biasa, floating bridge sangat membutuhkan perhatian ekstra untuk mensettingnya supaya enak digenjreng, ga kekencengan senarnya, ato kekendoran,,,ga ketinggian, ato kependekan jarak senar ke fretboard, pokoknya bisa memperbaiki playabilitylah,,,haha.
Dan biasanya masalah muncul ketika kamu memutuskan untuk mengganti senar kamu, ya ga??

So,,this is the information about it :

FLOYD ROSE ORIGINAL TREMOLO - STRING CHANGING INSTRUCTIONS

Step 1: Unlock the three clamps at the nut with the 3mm allen wrench provided with the guitar or bridge. Step 2: Set the fine-tuners on the bridge to the middle of there tuning range. Step 3: Change one string at a time (starting at either E string) by first loosening the string and unclamping it at the saddle with the 3mm allen wrench. Step 4: Cut the ball end off the replacement string with a pair of wire cutters. Step 5: Place the freshly cut string end into the center of the saddle and tighten the clamping screw until it is difficult to turn. Step 6: Thread the other end of the string under its nut clamp and under the string hold down bar, then to the tuning key and tune the string. [Pull on the string until it is tight around the tuning key and retune.] Step 7: Repeat 2 through 5 until all strings are replaced. Step 8: Check your tuning on all strings once again. Step 9: Re-clamp the three nut clamps. Step 10: Check your tuning once again making any adjustments this time with your fine-tuners only. FLOYD ROSE ORIGINAL TREMOLO - STRING TUNING INSTRUCTIONS   Tuning your Floyd Rose bridge is certainly a tricky business when the bridge is floating. This is because the total tension of the strings must balance the total tension of the tremolo springs with the base plate of the bridge parallel to the face of the guitar and with the strings tuned to the desired pitch. So, follow these steps and and it will start to make sense. Step 1: Loosen the three string clamps at the nut Step 2: Set your fine tuner screws on the bridge to the middle of their adjustment range. Step 3: Tune the strings to your desired pitch (this can be drop tuning, open tuning, or standard pitch, the procedure is the same for any tuning) with an electronic tuner starting with the low ‘E’. Step 4: When you have finished tuning all of the strings, check the tuning on the low ‘E’ again. If the low ‘E’ is now flat, re-tune the strings starting again with the low ‘E’ but this time tune the E, A, D, G, and B strings a little bit sharp, then the high ‘E’ to pitch. If the low ‘E’ is sharp, re-tune as just described only tuning the first five strings a little flat. You must tune the strings a little sharp or flat to get to your tuning because every time you change the tension (or pitch) of one string, the other strings change pitch in the opposite direction. Step 5: Repeat step 4 until all the strings are at the desired pitch. Step 6: When the strings are at the desired pitch, check to see if the bridge base plate is sitting parallel with the top surface of the guitar. If the base plate is tilted forward away from the body, you must tighten the tremolo springs tension by turning the spring claw screws clockwise and repeat step 4. If the base plate is tilted back toward the body, you must loosen the tremolo springs tension by turning the spring claw screws counterclockwise and repeat step 4. [Step 6 only needs to be done on initial setup of the bridge or if you change to another gauge of strings or change to a different tuning.] Step 7: When the bridge is sitting parallel to the face of the guitar and the strings are tuned to the desired pitch, re-clamp the three nut clamps and re-tune (if necessary) once again using only the fine tuners. Step 8: When tuning is complete, check the action of the strings off the neck. If your action is to high or to low, adjust the action with the two rocker screws (bridge pivot screws) using the 3mm Allen wrench. This adjustment will slightly change your tuning. If your fine tuners run out of range you must repeat steps 1 through 7. FLOYD ROSE ORIGINAL TREMOLO - INTONATING YOUR BRIDGE   [note - before intonating your bridge you must tune your guitar using the tuning instructions above] Check the intonation: Step 1: Tune all the strings on your guitar to an electronic tuner with all the nut clamps released. Step 2: Determine if the intonation of the string you wish to change is sharp or flat by chiming the string directly over the 12th and checking the tuning. Then, carefully press the string down to the 12th fret and check the tuning again with the string fretted. If the fretted note is flat when compared to the chimed note, then the saddle must be moved toward the nut until the chimed note and the fretted note match. If the fretted note is sharp when compared to the chimed note the saddle must be moved away from the nut until the chimed and fretted notes match. To move the saddle: Step 1: Once you have determined which direction (toward or away from the nut) to move the saddle, loosen the string until it is limp. Step 2: Loosen the attachment screw holding the saddle to the bridge plate while holding the saddle in place. Move the saddle in the desired direction a small amount (about 1/16in on the first adjustment and your best guess on subsequent adjustments) and re-tighten the screw. [Note: If the saddle will not move forward because it is resting against the attachment screw, you can move the screw to the next hole forward on the bridge plate. This will give you more adjustment range. Also, if you need to move the saddle away from the nut to a position where the attachment screw can no longer clamp the saddle firmly, you can move the screw to the next hole back on the bridge plate.] Step 3: Re-tune the string and check the intonation again using the procedure outlined above (check the intonation). Step 4: Repeat this cycle until each string is properly intonated. When you’re finished with the intonation procedure re-tighten the nut clamps. This will not change your intonation setting. FLOYD ROSE ORIGINAL TREMOLO - CHANGING TO A DIFFERENT GAUGE STRING SET   To change to a heavier gauge of strings you need to tighten the springs, reset the intonation, and possibly adjust the truss rod tension. If your not accustomed to working on guitars you may want to take your guitar to a qualified guitar repairman who is familiar with Floyd Rose systems. But if you want to try it, here’s what you do... To change to a heavier gauge of strings: Step 1: Replace all your strings with the heavier gauge strings and tune the guitar to an electronic tuner (leave the nut clamps un-clamped). Step 2: Check to see if the base plate is parallel with the body. Step 3: If the base plate seems to be tilting up away from the body, increase the spring tension and re-tune. If the base plate seems to be tilting down closer to the body, decrease the spring tension and retune. Step 4: Repeat steps 2 and 3 until the base plate is sitting parallel to the body. To intonate a Floyd Rose Bridge: Check the intonation: Step 1: Tune all the strings on your guitar to an electronic tuner with all the nut clamps released. Step 2: Determine if the intonation of the string you wish to change is sharp or flat by chiming the string directly over the 12th and checking the tuning. Then, carefully press the string down to the 12th fret and check the tuning again with the string fretted. If the fretted note is flat when compared to the chimed note, then the saddle must be moved toward the nut until the chimed note and the fretted note match. If the fretted note is sharp when compared to the chimed note the saddle must be moved away from the nut until the chimed and fretted notes match. To move the saddle: Step 1: Once you have determined which direction (toward or away from the nut) to move the saddle, loosen the string until it is limp. Step 2: Loosen the attachment screw holding the saddle to the bridge plate while holding the saddle in place. Move the saddle in the desired direction a small amount (about 1/16in on the first adjustment and your best guess on subsequent adjustments) and re-tighten the screw. [Note: If the saddle will not move forward because it is resting against the attachment screw, you can move the screw to the next hole forward on the bridge plate. This will give you more adjustment range. Also, if you need to move the saddle away from the nut to a position where the attachment screw can no longer clamp the saddle firmly, you can move the screw to the next hole back on the bridge plate.] Step 3: Re-tune the string and check the intonation again using the procedure outlined above (check the intonation). Step 4: Repeat this cycle until each string is properly intonated. When you’re finished with the intonation procedure re-tighten the nut clamps and re-tune the guitar with the fine tuner screws. This will not change your intonation setting. Since you are changing to a heavier gauge set of strings you should check the curve of the neck. A perfectly set up guitar will have a slight forward bow in the neck. If your neck has more than a slight forward bow you should tighten the truss rod until the bow is slightly forward. If your neck is perfectly straight or back bowed, you should loosen the truss rod until you get a slight forward bow. If you make a neck adjustment you may have to re-tune the guitar FLOYD ROSE ORIGINAL TREMOLO - TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS   Trouble Shooting the Floyd Rose Tremolo If your bridge is an Original Floyd Rose, it should function perfectly if properly installed and properly setup. Here are some things you can check that may be adjusted incorrectly or might be damaged. Step 1: Check to see if the base plate is sitting parallel with the top surface of the guitar. If it seems to be tilted forward, toward the pickups, then you need to tighten the springs and retune the guitar and check the tilt again. If it is tilted back toward the body of the guitar loosen the springs and retune the guitar. Repeat this procedure until the bridge sits level. Step 2: Make sure the nut is attached securely by tightening the nut attachment screws. This is critical for tuning stability. Step 3: Make sure the string clamps at the nut and bridge are very tight. Step 4: Make sure the saddle intonation screws are tight. If these things have been done correctly and your bridge still does not come back to the proper pitch when using the tremolo, the knife-edges may be damaged. To check this you must remove the bridge. You can easily remove the bridge with the strings still clamped in the bridge by removing the tremolo springs. [Be sure to hold on to the bridge when removing the springs.] If you don't feel comfortable doing this, take the guitar to a good guitar repairman. Check the knife-edges. They should not be dull or rounded or chipped. If they don't seem sharp you can order a replacement base plate by contacting us here. The dull knife edge is a rare problem on Floyd Rose Original bridges, but is more common on licensed bridges. If your bridge says, "Licensed under Floyd Rose Patents" or similar anywhere on it, this is a licensed bridge, and "not under our quality control." If your bridge is a licensed bridge, you should contact the manufacturer of your guitar for replacement parts. If your tremolo is "floating" (i.e. you can pull up or push down on the tremolo arm) and you bend a string, the other strings will go slightly flat. This is normal operation. If you don't want this to happen you must block the tremolo so that you can't pull up on it (Edward Van Halen uses his Floyd blocked this way). When the bridge is mounted in this manner it is as stable as a fixed bridge for string bending but the trade off is the loss of subtle vibrato effects. This blocking should be done by a qualified guitar repairman. Sorry sob pake bahasa inggris, hehe,,jadilah gitaris yang cerdas dan bisa berbahasa inggris,,hehe Sumber

(iseng) FAKTA TENTANG GITAR ELEKTRIK

NO DOUBT !!

Tidak diragukan lagi !! 

Gitar elektrik adalah salah satu instrumen musik yang paling menarik. ya ga??

Gitar elektrik juga memiliki fakta dan pengetahuan lho, yang mungkin belum seluruhnya diketahui oleh pemain gitar itu sendiri!. Instrumen indah ini sudah ada selama berdekade-dekade dan selalu berkembang. Tidak diragukan lagi kalo Brand gitar elektrik ternama yang pertama kali dikenal luas adalah Gibson dan Fender.

Suara/karakter sound  yang dihasilkan dari kedua brand tersebut memang pasti berbeda. 

Sound gitar Gibson bisa dibilang lebih tebal/heavy/berat daripada sound gitar Fender yang cenderung lebih blues/crunchy/twank, tetapi berawal dari kedua brand tersebut akhirnya dapat memunculkann gitaris-gitaris legendaris dunia, serta didalam negeri kita sendiri Indonesia. 

Kini, selain kedua brand tersebut terdapat banyak brand yang tersedia di pasaran dengan harga yang berbeda-beda, dari yang paliiing mahalll dan import sampai brand lokal yang GA KALAH BAGUS KUALITAS DAN PLAYABILITYNYA. Bahkan sekarang gitar-gitar tersebut dapat dibeli dengan mudah di toko alat musik lokal/toko online. Trus banyak yang bilang juga si,dan saya juga merasakan, kalo Instrumen musik ini cenderung membutuhkan waktu yang lama untuk menguasainya. Susyeee sob!! haha.

Nah, berikut ini ada 12 fakta seputar gitar elektrik yang mungkin kamu belon tau dan bisa bertambah sewaktu-waktu :p :

1. Gitar elektrik pertama kali didesain oleh George Beauchamp pada tahun 1931, kemudian dibangun oleh Harry Watson yang disebut fry pan/rickenbacker.

frying pan

2. Nama Gibson Les Paul berasal dari nama musisi yang juga bernama Les Paul (alm.)

3. Meskipun terhubung dengan listrik, instrumen itu sendiri tidak dialiri aliran listrik sehingga aman dari bahaya kesetrum.

4. Gitar elektrik memanfaatkan gelombang elektromagnetik untuk mengubah getaran senar gitar menjadi sinyal elektrik (itulah gunanya pickup).

5. Tidak ada instrumen musik lain yang memiliki dampak besar terhadap perkembangan musik sejak awal abad 20 selain gitar elektrik. See?!

6. Instrumen musik ini mampu menghasilkan berbagai macam aliran musik mulai dari classic, jazz, country, pop, folk, soul, blues, funk, rock, grunge, punkrock, hardcore, skinheads, ska, metal , industrial, speed metal, trash metal, death metal, nu metal, avant garde, dan lain lain hanya dengan 6 senar !!

Les Paul

7. Bahan dasar utama gitar elektrik adalah solid wood dan dapat terbuat dari beberapa jenis kayu sekaligus.lihat sini

8. Terdapat banyak jenis gitar elektrik, seperti gitar 7, 8, 9, dan 12 senar, gitar double-necked, dan bahkan gitar dengan 6 neck.

9. Gitar elektrik juga ada yang menggunakan tremolo arms yang bisa dipasang dan dilepas dengan mudah untuk mengubah pitch dari senar gitarnya.

6 necks guitar

double neck guitar

10. Jimi Hendrix adalah gitaris acid/psycedelic rock yang terkenal karena ia telah bereksperimen banyak dengan suara gitar miliknya. Dia membuat gitar miliknya seperti bicara dan memiliki skill untuk bermain gitar dengan potensi penuhnya/push to the limits bro!!. Jimi Hendrix menggunakan gitar Fender Stratocaster. 
 
11. Gitar elektrik menangkap suara melalui dua/tiga pickup  yang berupa single coil dan atau humbucker.lihat ini

 12. Gitar untuk orang kidal dibuat berbeda dengan gitar untuk orang yang tidak kidal, walaupun gitar untuk orang yang tidak kidal bisa dipakai juga untuk orang kidal, dengan susunan senar yang berbeda.

gitar right handed digunakan oleh left handed (Kurt Cobain)

Jimi Hendrix

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See you in the next pit bro!

Adiksigitar Tips : Mengenal JENIS JENIS EFEK GITAR ELEKTRIK

Effects units are electronic devices that alter how a musical instrument or other audio source sounds. Some effects subtly "color" a sound, while others transform it dramatically. Effects are used during live performances or in the studio, mostly with electric guitar. While most frequently used with electric or electronic instruments, effects can also be used with acoustic instruments, drums and vocals. Examples of common effects units include wah-wah pedals, fuzzboxes and reverb units.

Effects are housed in amplifiers, table top units, "stompboxes" and "rackmounts", or they are built into the instruments themselves. A stompbox (or "pedal") is a small metal or plastic box placed on the floor in front of the musician and connected to their instrument. The box is typically controlled by one or more foot-pedal on-off switches and contains only one or two effects. A rackmount is mounted on a standard 19-inch equipment rack and usually contains several different types of effects.


While there is currently no consensus on how to categorize effects, the following are seven common classifications: distortion, dynamics, filter, modulation, pitch/frequency, time-based and feedback/sustain. Rock guitarists derive their signature sound or "tone" from their choice of instrument and effects.
(source : wikipedia).

Ngerti bahasa inggris kan sob??? hehehe...well itu sedikit intermezzo yang saya ambil dari wikipedia, well,, pada masa sekarang ini efek gitar semakin beragam dan semakin canggih pastinya. Walaupun pada dasarnya jenis efek juga itu2 doank(distortion, dynamics, filter, modulation, pitch/frequency, time-based and feedback/sustain), tapi, semakin canggih teknologinya, pasti juga semakin mudah pengoperasiannya, serta sound yang dihasilkan juga semakin bagus dan ajib, haha.

Nahhh, pada awalnya duluuuuu bgt, Efek sound gitar elektrik thu hanya datang dari efek tunggal / singel pedal / Stombox yang dibangun dalam satu pedal saja, tetapi kemudian tumbuh sesuai dengan kemajuan teknologi, menjadi seperti : 

Amplifier built-in

Efek ini merupakan efek pertama yang banyak digunakan secara umum oleh para pemain gitar sampai sekarang. Dari akhir 1940-an, Gibson Gitar Corp mulai membuat sirkuit vibrato di combo amplifier. Dan kemudian diikuti oleh Ray Butts amp EchoSonic Tahun 1950 yang pertama membuat fitur "slapback" atau suara gema (semacam Reverb), yang kemudian populer di pakai oleh gitaris-gitaris dunia.

Amplifier Built-in Effect

Pada tahun 1950-an, Efek tremolo, vibrato dan reverb mulai dibuat sebagai built-in efek pada amplifier gitar.

Stomboxes

Efek Pedal atau singel pedal, berbentuk seperti kotak sabun pada awal dibuatnya untuk satu Stombox ini hanya bisa menghasilkan satu jenis suara tetapi sekarang sudah ada yang bisa menghasilkan lebih dari dua suara dan bahkan lebih. Jenis ini juga bisa dirangkai secara paralell agar suara yang dihasilkan jadi lebih unik.   Dengan  berkembangnya tehnologi lahirlah Multi-effect processors.

Rackmounts
Efek nya tersusun dan terpasang pada suatu rak yang standar dan berisi atas beberapa Efek biasanya untuk ukuran raknya sekitar 19 Inci. 

Rackmounts

Ada beberapa Jenis Efek yang paling umum dijumpai atau beberapa klasifikasi umum untuk Efek Gitar :

Distorsi

Efek ini biasanya memiliki suara yang berisik yang suaranya berbasis pada suara amplifier tabung overdrive, termasuk disini Fuzz efek

Dyinamics

Efek ini disebut volume dan amplitude effects, Efek ini memodifikasi suara gitar. Ini adalah efek pertama yang diperkenalkan untuk gitaris.

Reverb/Delay
Efek ini memberikan suara seakan-akan suara itu tertunda dan bergema. Sementara saat ini efek ini sudah disisipkan ke amplifier gitar dan datang sebagai unit rackmounts yang terpisah, efek ini juga tersedia dalam bentuk stompboxes dan multi-efek prosessor.

Pitch Modulation
Termasuk dalam kategori ini yaitu flangers, wah-wah pedals, phase shifters, chorus, pitch shifters.
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BOB DYLAN AND THE FIRST LIVE STRATOCASTER STORIES

Bob Dylan plays a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar for the first time on stage as he performs at the Newport Folk Festival on July 25, 1965 in Newport, R.I. Photo by Alice Ochs/ Michael Ochs Archives/ Getty Images.

Bob Dylan

It's one of rock's seminal moments: It's 1965, the scene is the Newport Folk Festival, and Bob Dylan -- the godfather of folk music at the time -- walks on stage and plugs in. He plays an electric guitar for the first time in live performance. 

When Dylan switched to the Fender Stratocaster from an acoustic guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, folk purists at the time said he had sold out by "plugging in." He was famously booed off the stage. But that moment is said to have revolutionized rock music and energized the counterculture of the '60s.

Fans boo their musical hero and Pete Seeger tries to switch off the power on his friend Dylan. And what became of the instrument that Dylan used as he transformed from folk master to rock & roll legend? Well, it went missing.

The Fender Stratocaster that Bob Dylan played at the 1965

 A New Jersey woman, Dawn Peterson, believes she has the Fender Stratocaster with the sunburst pattern that belonged to Dylan. Turns out her father used to fly him and other famous musicians to and from gigs in his private plane. The guitar was left behind on the plane after the 1965 festival and remained in the family attic for decades, until Dawn started wondering about its origin after her father died.

To help her figure out what she had, she contacted the PBS program History Detectives.

In tonight's season premiere, History Detectives Elyse Luray and Wes Cowan carefully unravel the missing guitar mystery. If this really is the instrument that Bob Dylan played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, then it may be worth up to a million dollars. But Dylan's representatives insist that he is in possession of the guitar he played in Rhode Island that night.


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KURT COBAIN'S GUITAR RIG

Kurt Cobain - Nirvana's frontman and guitar player went down in history as an alternative rock god. Based on our research and eyewitness reports, let's take a look at Cobain's guitar gear he used live.
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Guitars
News: In 2011 Fender began producing a Kurt Cobain signature Jaguar, modeled after his '65 guitar


Cobain's most used guitars:
1965 Fender Jaguar electric guitar

• Left handed model
• Dimarzio pickup in neck position and Dimarzio super distortion in bridge position
• Later switched to Seymour Duncan JB
• Schaller Bridge

1969 Fender Mustang electric guitar

• Blue with racing stripes
• Lefthanded

1990's Fender Stratocaster Standard electric guitar

• Various Japanese models
• Usually used for smashing at end of Nirvana's show

Variety of Fender Telecasters

• 1993 Fender Telecaster (Gibson pickup in neck. Sunburst)

Other Guitars

• Mark IV-style Mosrite Gospel guitar  (bought by Kurt in 1990)
• Epiphone et-270
• Univox Hi-Flier

Strings and Picks 
Kurt was known to use Dean Markley strings, gauge .10-.52.
He used Dunlop Tortex Standard picks, orange color.

Acoustics
- Stella 12-string (Polly recording)
- Epiphone Texan (unplugged recordings)
- Martin D-18E (electric/acoustic version of D-18)


Guitar cabinets
- Marshall 1960A Slant Cabinet - 4x12
- Marshall 1960AC Vintage Cabinet - 4x12

Two to eight Marshall cabs were used depending on the size of the live venue. The cabinets were loaded with either Celestion 12" G12M Greenback Speakers
 OR
Celestion 12" Vintage 30 Speakers

Amps
- Crest 4801 power amps
- Crown Power Base 2 Power Amplifier
- Mesa/Boogie Studio .22 Preamp
- Mesa Boogie Mark III head
- Fender Bassman
- Vox AC30
- Marshall Micro stack
- Fender Twin Reverb (his favorite studio amp)


Pedals
- Boss DS-1 and DS-2 Distortions


- Electro-Harmonix Poly Chorus (submitted by anonymous user)
- Electro-Harmonix Small Clone Analog Chorus
- Electro-Harmonix Big Muff
- Electro-Harmonix Echo Flanger
- Tech 21 SansAmp amp simulator
- Pro Co Rat