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Funkle
Username: Funkle
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 08, 2005 - 12:10 pm: | |
I had a very interesting experience yesterday. I had just reassembled the AM200 that I have been restoring. I reset the bridge height, and played a little bit. The tone and sustain were both really poor, not what I remember from before taking the guitar apart. Notes were garbled and sloppy, and the tone wasn't all that great, particularly on the G and B strings. Maybe this isn't the guitar I had hoped it would be. Then I remembered that I had not tightened the screws which lock the GII bridge in place. I tightened the screws down, and the guitar transformed. The sustain was back, and the messy tone was gone! This must be all in my head. I repeated this experiment several times, tightening and loosening the screws, and there was definitely a discernible difference in tone. Anyone else care to try this simple test?
This reinforces my opinion that locking bridge hardware makes a huge difference. Ibanez is one of the only guitar companies that has included this feature on their guitars for more than 20 years. TonePros and Wilkinson have been marketing locking bridges as hot new technology, but Ibanez was onto this first. I am thinking of trying TonePros locking studs on the Shortstop II on my SC, which has locking saddles, but no locking posts.
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