FCH-4BCHR - Babicz FCH 4 Bass Bridge. Chrome

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FCH-4BCHR - Babicz FCH 4 Bass Bridge. Chrome


FCH-4BCHR - Babicz Full Contact Hardware 4 String Bass Bridge. Chrome. A direct replacement upgrade for Fender Precision or Jazz style bass bridges. Mounts with the Fender 5 hole screw pattern. Installs in minutes and offers a "saddle housing lock" feature for added saddle stability. Includes all necessary screws, instructions and adjustment wrench.


Babicz Full Contact Hardware Bridges


The 'Full Contact Hardware' system now offers "full contact" between the vibrating string and the body of the instrument. Babicz designed FCH with the intent of gaining the maximum amount of direct string coupling to the body of the instrument, with over 50 times more contact surface per saddle compared to conventional saddle designs.


With FCH, string height or "action" can now be set with more precision. The "eCam” saddle allows for instant "action" adjustments without ever adding space or air gaps between the saddle and the body of the guitar, and conventional string height action adjustment set screws are eliminated. With the Babicz FCH design, the bridge saddle can never "sink" or "shift" while playing. Each FCH eCAM saddle also includes a specially designed “String Height Lock” feature, which keeps your string height setting in place…even during extreme saddle vibrations over time. Precise intonation adjustments are also easily attained and in most cases include a “Saddle Housing Lock” feature.


'Full Contact Hardware' is being distributed by KMC Music in the US (Kaman Music Company), and as such the product will be available to a network of literally thousands of dealers throughout the country. We greatly appreciate your interest in this innovative new technology developed by Jeff Babicz.

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The Floyd Rose Tremelo - Part 3

The Floyd Rose Tremelo - Part 3

Black Original Floyd Rose - With Fine Tuners

Black units were first used around the 1983 timeframe on the Pacer Carerra and Pacer Imperial. The black Floyd was also first used on the 1983-1984 early Barettas with the non-angled headstock. Generally, the black trems hold up pretty well under abuse. The gold Floyd's (not shown here) are one of the worst when it comes to pitting and rust. The black Original Floyd Rose also features the hardened steel fulcrum points.Some OFR units have more thin baseplates that other models, and are not very common.

The Floyd Rose II - With Fine Tuners

The II units were used on some of the later model overseas Strikers, Focus, 100, and 1000 series Kramers While these trems are not necessarily "crap", they are not as good as the original since they are cast iron. They rust much easier, and the fulcrum points are metal inserts as opposed to being hardened and part of the actual trem metal itself. If you see a Kramer with one of these, it is NOT an American Series. Additionally, if you try to use one of these on a guitar that originally had an OFR on it, you'll have some bad action because the base plate is thicker than the OFR's. Also worth of noting, a Floyd Rose III exists that is actually a non-locking trem made in Asia that Kramer wanted as an affordable piece. It is slightly different to the Floyd II, with the III featuring a different base plate.

The Floyd Rose Pro

The Pro units were installed on later model Kramers. Most notably, they can be seen on Nightswan II's, Pro-Axe guitars, and some Showsters. They differ from the standard units in that the inntonation allen screws are in front of the fine tuners as opposed to the OFR which has them behind the whale tail. Also, the "whale tail" is at an angle versus its OFR relative making the trem a lower profile for players who rest their hands on the unit while playing. The spring block that extends down into the body is shorter as well, keeping the block at the right depth for recessed routed trems. Generally, they work the same, and stay in tune under the most rigorous "whammy" conditions. They cannot be used on traditional OFR "non recessed" routes.

The Les Paul Floyd Rose

The LP units were created by Floyd and Kramer to be installed on Les Paul guitars with little to no modification. However, the literature didn't state that the neck would have to be modified in order to install the locking nut. These are very rare, and are occasionally seen on ebay for sale.

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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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