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.