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  1. Hi guys, Well I bought myself a new EVH Wolfgang Special, and am very happy with it but the bloody bastard won't stay in tune! Like I mean ridicously bad. Worse than my friend's Squier. I've had it for about 4 days, I went online to look at information and I tried tighting those locking bolts on the nut, and that seemed to work, but if you tighten them fully, the string doesn't react to tuning. At first it was the G,B,E strings that would go out of tune, but I tightened the nuts and now it's the low E, A, D. Ias it because it's a floyd rose. The whammy bar is unsuable unless I want to tune up after 10seconds of use. Could you please help me out? Thanks If your new to Floyds, I would pay for a set up at first. A properly functioning double locking trem is hard to knock out of tune, and will stay in tune for month's. The bridge should be parallel to the body, and the spring tension should be equal to the string tension if you like a floating setup. I would recommend not adjusting bridge height with tension, as it could mess up the knife edges(the fulcrum), which could result in unstable tuning: When you use the bar, the tuning may go flat. As mentioned/pictured above, once you get in tune or as close as you can, lock down the nut, and adjust with the fine tuners on the bridge. Also it's a good idea to stretch your strings a little bit, so you don't have to tune, unlock, retune etc etc. so much. Also a little trick that I do is I put some chap stick on the knife edges, even with some of my more worn out floyds this little trick helps them return to perfect pitch every time, at least on my guitars. Another little trick is when your tuning, block the bridge with a stack of picks, or pennies, whatever in the back of the floyd. With the bridge in a fixed position, it helps to get it set up a little faster, and when it's done, the picks or pennies should just fall out of the back of the guitar.
  2. Actually on anything other than a muscle car/sports car, VW Bus, or old trucks no, but on those I love it. Also, I wouldn't own a Ferrari in any color other than red. I love Scouts:love::love:
  3. In no particular order: Mostly older American muscle cars wet my whistle. 1. 68 Dodge Charger 2. 41 Willy's Coupe 3. Modern era Corvettes 4. 70 Camaro with the split bumpers 5. Nissan Skyline 6. Lamborghini Gallardo 7. 70 Chevelle SS 8. 61 Impala ss 9. Ford GT40 10. 57 Chevy
  4. What if you slip and fall off the treadmill with your guitar in hand? Could be a bad, bad day...
  5. Personally, I don't care for the 81 in the neck. I ran an 81/81 combo in a strat, and they sound too similar. Not much distinction at all between the pickups, so I put an 85 in the neck, and I roll the volume back a bit with it. Also, I tried an 85 bridge and 81 neck one of my Les Paul's before, the 85 sounds great in the bridge, but again, the 81 just didn't sound right to me in the neck. I haven't tried a 60 yet so no comment on that one, I'll probably use one of those in the neck of that LP. I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
  6. One of my favorite scales. Very, very close to the Harmonic minor, sounds great when you mix the two. Instant Marty Freidman feel.
  7. The delay is on Roger Waters bass, but sounds awesome. One of my favorite tunes.
  8. Throwing horns Yes, throwing horns at a Hannah Montana or Toby Keith concert is not cool. Check this site out below. http://www.takebackthehorns.com/ Any way, my contribution would be the Boss DS1. They're everywhere!
  9. What are Jackson necks like. The RR24 is what I am looking for and I want to know what the neck is like. No stores have any around here that I know off. Thin neck thick neck fast flat etc. Thanks When you get into the the thru neck guitars, you'll find the the necks are different than their bolt on guitars. They are thicker, much like a Les Paul, but they still have the compound radius's and jumbo frets. On their american guitars, and on some japanese models, they have ebony fretboards, which to my touch, feels much silkier than rosewood. All in all, they are very, very comfortable, with the speed you would expect that has made these necks famous in the 80's shred era and made Jackson a household name.
  10. My theory is its the overall tone that made these super strats so popular. When you put a humbucker in an alder body strat, it just thickens things up so nice. Its hard for me to explain but you can acheive a 'soaring' sound that's so perfect for shred that you sometimes can't get from other guitars. Maximum tone and maximum playability are the keys to a great super strat.
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