Wednesday, May 7, 2008

The Floyd Rose Tremolo - Part 2



The Floyd Rose Tremolo - Part 2


The use of the Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo was popularised by Richie Sambora, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith (from heavy metal band Iron Maiden) Vinnie Vincent and Eddie Van Halen. Many modern electric guitar players, such as Avenged Sevenfold's Synyster Gates , Metallica's Kirk Hammett, Allan Holdsworth, Shawn Lane, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Children of Bodom's Alexi Laiho, Brad Gillis, Trivium's Corey Beaulieu, Freak Kitchen's Mattias Eklundh, and Dragonforce's Herman Li, make heavy use of the whammy bar.


I don't know about you, but I think I get the picture on what these Floyd Rose Tremolos can do.

Many guitarists use these system to create new sounds that were not practical to achieve with traditional tremolo systems:

Joe Satriani uses his whammy bar to raise the pitch of a pinch harmonic, usually on the open G string, in order to do his signature "Satch Scream".[3] He also lowers the whammy bar while sliding up on a string in order to do his "Lizard Down the Throat" technique.



Dimebag Darrell, formerly of Pantera, and Damageplan, made use of the bar for his signature "Dime squeals". This requires a flick on the open G,B, or E string while the bar is being pulled towards the body, then a natural harmonic over the 1-12 frets and a rapid pull away from the body for a high-piched squeal.

Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave uses the whammy bar in conjunction with his pickup toggle switch and Digitech Whammy pedal to create sounds reminiscent of hip hop.

Karl Logan of Manowar is known for simulating sounds of bike engine burn-in — this "guitar versus bike" duelling effect is particularly used on Return of the Warlord track of 1995, although the effect is probably better known from Todd Rundgren's playing on the 1977 Meatloaf song "Bat out of Hell" Herman Li and Sam Totman of DragonForce use the system to create video game-esque noises.




Chrome Original Floyd Rose - With Fine Tuners



Chrome Original Floyd Rose - With Fine Tuners
This original unit was featured on overseas Focus guitars around 984-1987 and was used on American Kramer's as an option on all guitars after 1983. This is probably the most famous of all the Floyds in that it was used on Edward Van Halen's 5150 and Frankenstrat. Chrome tend to be the most durable of these Floyds when it comes to rust and pitting. Note: Most Kramers utilize the screw in trem arm on their Floyds, not the "collared" trem bar seen on the newer Floyds. The Original Floyd Rose features the hardened steel fulcrum points.



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