gibson guitar borders

gibson guitar borders

should i get a new guitar w whammy?

should i get a new guitar? i have not really focused on the whammy bar much, but recently, i have got interested in it, i have this very cheap starter guitar that has a whammy, but its very, very bad quality, it always goes out of tune, etc. however, i have just recently got a gibson, which i find really awesome, but their of course, expensive, so should stick with my les paul for now and wait till later, or would u suggest i get a good guitar with a whammy soon? would the prs torero be good? i read an article about megadeth’s chris broderick and he has a really cool white, black bordered ibanez with a whammy, but its a 7 string…is there much difference? thx

I would suggest that you start by learning how to properly set up your floating trem. Even a crappy trem can be set up so that it works decently… getting a locking nut really helps keep things stable, too. Remember that you can’t change your tuning without doing a full ‘nother setup, or you’ll have intonation issues, most likely fret buzz, and your whammy’ll go out of tune much faster.

I avoid floating trems entirely. While they can be pretty cool, the idea that if one string goes then the whole guitar goes out of tune is a big turn-off. I have never, and would never, play a gig with a floating trem for that very reason. I’ve had so many things go wrong when playing that I would pretty much expect something to go wrong, and if it goes wrong with a floating trem, that’s an easy fifteen minutes before I could get it set back up!

There is a very big difference between 6-strings and 7-strings – the fretboard is much wider, it’s quite a bit harder to fret your chords until you get used to it. I’m not a fan of 7-strings personally, I think they go too far into bass guitar territory.

Saul

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