3 Awesome & Easy Guitar Mods With FU-Tone
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- 3 Awesome & Easy Guitar Mods With FU-Tone
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SUPER easy to install, and the tone is massive!
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hahaha no fade in at the start! oops!
Thanks for watching guys, thanks to Adam at FU-Tone for sending the parts over! These are great and easy mods, super straight forward to install and sound brilliant!
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I'm afraid your URL to FU-Tone might be wrong, isn't it this one? www.fu-tone.com/
Thanks for that! All updated!
Rabea Massaad Rough day? 😜
+Rabea Massaad Any opinion on Proto Floyds (FRT-3)?
What size block did you fit in?
Always always pre drill, don't force a screw in you can split the wood
While we are at it, mark your drill/sand/scrape spots and protect whatever you don't want sliced with tape before taking chunks out of your guitar. Ask anyone that has tinkered with guitars, it is very easy to overdo a scrape/drill/sand spot just eyeing it out.
@@RJMStraya Those screws aren't self-tapping so pre-drilling is always the way to go.
Adam at FU tone has the single most comprehensive and easy to understand video on setting up a Floyd Rose. He removes all the confusion. He is a very organized thinker.
Wow - Thank you!!!!
Bro you've lost quite some weight since last year. Well done!
I'm an American who stumbled upon Andertons videos a few months ago. Through the Andertons videos I got turned on to Dorje. Very good stuff! Definitely dig your tones and you seem to be full of all sorts of gear knowledge. The most badass thing about ya is actually that I see replies to people in the comments lol
Hey Bea, been using the foam trick in my strat for 20+ years. You're a great reviewer and a helluva guitar player.
Keep up the great work brother!!
Did this recently with a Jackson Dinky with a cheap and nasty licensed floyd with next to no tuning stability. Cut a block of wood to size and stuck it in place and tightened up the springs to keep it locked. You can still do a dive bomb if you want but the guitar plays better, holds its tuning perfectly and the good wood-to-sustain-block contact has really increased the sustain a noticeable amount. A great way to make a cheap instrument perform a hell of a lot better!
I used to think I could get away from floyd style guitars, but tracking in the studio sucks with stable bridge/locking tuner equipped guitars, the floyd does so much well, the double locking aspect is great and the fine tuners are just so useful. At the end of the day, it turned out that a blocked floyd is the perfect stable bridge guitar, and really the best bridge you can opt for, as blocked it beats everything but an Evertune, and floating, it's simply the best there is
100% noticed a difference when you added the brass FU-tone block. suddenly there was some mud cleared up from the tone so notes were clearer and a definite brightness over all...but that's brass i suppose haha. epic little mods.
keep up great work with Dorje, Toska and the youtubes man, hope to see you at a gig again soon 😊
Made almost the exact same to mine a few years back when he still had the Floyd Upgrade name :-)... Did not got the red springs but still better springs and have a small piece of cloth inside each spring that works great. I did made one change later as I got noises when the block was hitting the adjustment screw - was solved with a small piece of hard felt on the tip of the screw.
This is exactly something I've been looking for I don't really like floyds so a good way to hardtail and better them is perfect
subtle difference but it is such a nicer clearer sound with these new mods, the high registers seem to ring out better than before
Great video 👍. Felt like I was in the room. Thanks for the info. I'm thinking of getting the brass block for my Wolfgang, new on the trem springs, may need to pick those up. Using foam now too. 2- 👍👍.
Great mod bea. I can definetly hear the sustain difference. I will try the same with my Ibanez.
Floyd's are sweet as are the G&L dual fulcrums with some good locking tuners and a well cut nut. great vid guys!!
Changing the stock tremolo plate, poles & block of my ibanez js for a gotoh + heavy brass block made a huge difference to the tone and feel of the guitar. Especially the block made the tone richer and more resonant and increased sustain. I'd recommend it to any floyd rose user.
Springs seem like an interesting improvement.
Question: do you prefer back plate on or off? (And why)
my favourite channel to watch, Rabbea is such a nice, down to earth guy :)
For the 3rd mod, I`ve always used rolls of coins on one side of the cavity. Cheapper, easier and also improves the sustain because of all the metal being next to the floyd block. I also used it to stop some guitars` tremolo.
Cool...I think I'll check this out.I have a couple guitars with Floyd's, but I'm not a huge fan of them. Seems to me you can really tailor it to your liking with this upgrade....Thanx Bea!! 👍👍👍
great! even greater is that you coming back to shape... you're trimming down... keep it up! You're always awesome...
It's somewhat difficult to tell differences in sound, but since you are intimately familiar with this guitar, you will notice the difference more than your viewers. Cool upgrade!
Bought some of them silent springs last month for my PRS and Ibanez guitars. They sound fab
Hey Rabea! Huge fan of you and your playing man, jeez you can play.. Just ordered my upgrade package for my Floyd guitar, Block + Springs + Trem Blocker. It's a PRS SE Torero and so love the way it plays but started to hate floyd rose bridges over the years haha. So hyped for getting my stuff and install it so i can pickup this guitar again :) Bye Cya! Love the channel
Sold! After watching this I ordered for all my Floyd’s guitars ! Great review man! Thx!
Sounds like theres slightly more cut in the highs. Would have been cool to hear a clean comparison, too. Good work, Bea!
Absolutely love your channel man!
Very cool Rabea, would love to hear your recommendations for tunings for heavier material. I have some sound design to do for a tv show for a metal sytle band. I'm sure your using C tunings and such, but would love to know the string gauges your using too. I play 10's and 11's on my gits, but I'm much more of a funk/alternative style. Great stuff again dude. Keep on rocking it.
Cool little vid, These trem stoppers are good as you can set them up as the hard no pull up and full dive used something like this for a long time that one hooked up to the block. Have you tried having the springs parallel?
I put a super vee mag-lok on my FR guitar as I was sick of detuned bends and even palm mutes moving the bridge. It's really made the "zero point" stable whilst retaining full FR range of movement.
Hipshot also makes a really really handy gadget they call the TremSetter. It's an additional spring (more or less) for your conventional strat-style tremolo system. Once it's set it makes the strat style trem absolutely SOLID. Use one on all my strats, and it makes that trem (which feels awesome, but historically detunes the guitar) absolutely rock solid. I never buy a strat now without putting one in.
First thing I notice is a huge difference in the sustain immediately! Also a bit more clarity in each note as I compare the before and after. My Sire S7 plays beautifully but the sustain on the high E and B strings sucks because of such a small OEM block. I've already added FU Tone springs because there was a noticeable rattle even though it doesn't have a full on Floyd Rose. Yeah it definitely helped.
I can vouch for the big brass block. Put one on my S2020X Prestige, and it made a considerable difference to the sustain. The tone doesn't really change, but it sings for days. Definitely worth the money.
How big size of them 34 mm, 37 mm, or 42 mm?
It helps to mark the position of the saddles with a pencil before removing them.
I'm a big fan of billet trem blocks, steel also works and is brighter and more aggressive sounding. But both steel and brass are way better than the pot metal blocks you find on cheaper trem units.
Cheaper bridges with pot metal saddles can be similarly upgraded to stainless or brass and the effect is even more noticeable than swapping the trem block.
Conversely, graphtech and similar saddles are darker and warmer sounding than brass or steel but give better sustain than pot metal.
Hi Bea,
thanks for this video and this awsome Mods.
Your VX Kraken Profile for the Kemper sounds great! Is there any chance to get this profile? Do you bought it?
Thank you very much!
Adam is a super cool guy. Highly recommend his products!
loving the guitar man you have a great collection! you know how much your signature Chapman's will be?
Hey Bea, just want to add that I get the wanting to do things quick and easy; but without predrilling, you could've split that body in two with those two screws. It's 1 extra step but it could mean the difference between completely destroying a guitar and having a working guitar.
Alright butt! Cool vid. Seems brighter to me with extra sustain.
Reminds me that I need to sort out/finish off modding my old Ibanez. Stuck a set a BK's in it which included a Warpig in the bridge. Totally different guitar now. Bridge change is next as the stock one is garbage.
Hope you're well dude!
Best mods ever, I have the trem stopper and it's a life saver, and the best thing is that you can still use the Floyd
woooow very easy :o, great video rabea!!!
I made the Floyd on my Kramer hardtail. They are such a pain in the rear lol....
I just put a solid metal backplate on it and run a threaded bolt with some washers and nuts to hardtail it with the bridge level.
Even if you disable the tremolo action - you can Big Block it for massive tone!
Great video 🤘 glad your happy with the outcome 👌🇦🇺
I'm personally don't really care about tremolo thing, but springy noise that it makes drives me nuts. there's something raw and brutal about it, i love it.
Damn, Bea, you got a monster tone! I think those rubber coated springs are an awesome thing! However call me insane, but I kinda like hearing the springs creak when I'm jamming. Got some old recordings from like 15 yrs ago that I made using a Samick Strat knockoff and it would squeak like a fieldmouse with high gain, but I thought it added a little roughness to the recordings which I liked
I really like hearing stories like these, where people think 'imperfections' are a good thing :) I'm the kind of guy who wants everything to be as perfect as can be, and it stresses me out from time to time. I could learn something from you haha! The only 'abnormal' thing I do to my basses, is setting the action quite higher, at least higher than what it should normally be. Simply because of the fact that I like 'battling' my strings :)
Thomas Raes ha, thanks. I have always liked hearing imperfections in music. Like EVH's tremelo springs creak on the divebomb in "Eruption", or the amp hum on the "quieter" parts of "Are you gonna be my girl" by Jet, or the audible sound ofJohn Lennon flipping his switch from his neck pickup to his bridge pickup on "I want you". I don't know, it just brings a bit of realness to music for me.
The twang from the springs are a problem in a recording. - The same as the bits of string between the nut and the tuners or the bridge and the stop-tail that exists. - Anything that rings outside of the string between the nut and bridge can really ugly up your amplified or recorded sound.
So when swapping the sustain block, returning the saddles to their exact positions for intonation purposes, how do you do that? My FR guitar has perfect intonation and I don't want to mess it up and have to pay to have it setup again..
Wicked video. Really appreciate the effort that's gone in to presenting this. Definitely going to try the noiseless springs. killer comment Bea "I enjoy successfully bodging something". Don't we all Bea, don't we all.
Hi I need help I put a brass block 42mm on my FRO
And live it but I can’t get it flush even tho I have 4 springs and it’s tightened screws are to the wall what do you recommend do I 5 springs? And take off my Tremelo Stoper L bracket? I don’t want to hard tail my Floyd Rose but have no more room for adjustment please let me know your ideas thank you I’m using .9 super slinky’s like I’ve use always nothing has changed in my guitar in years except the new 42mm brass block upgrade , please help thank you.
If you break a string will the other strings still go sharp? On mine I noticed this. But it’s a strat style bridge
Thankyou for not using the word "hack."
GigglingDickhead hack
Hey Bea. On this guitar have you got the speedy loaders that you use on your ml-3 floyd? im asking because i have your ml-1 signature and was thinking whether it would be worth getting the speedy loaders for it or not. Cheers
you are a great guitarist and has inspired me to start playing
My upgrade will be on a 89 MIJ Strat that had Kahler/Floyd for the Ghost Floyd Rose Piezo and for Pickups using Vintage Strat set from JBE
Hey man, I like your tone. Can you tell me your set up for this video? Amp/pedals or other effects, mostly.
Thanks!
Question here.I heard mick thompson? the slipknot guy, say he had his tremolo blocked but he still uses the springs 'to get the action trough the guitar.When you use foam or coated springs isnt that sustaine killing?
I've put the brass blocks on all my guitars and I love them.
Also I have some of those noiseless springs but I noticed I get grounding issues with them installed. I think the coating maybe should be ground down at the claw and block.
I've actually done 2 of these mods with Floyd Rose brand accessories. I haven't replaced the sustain block because theyre expensive. Honestly I grew out of my full floating trem phase a while after I bought my primary guitar which has one. So I wish I could salvage back some of the sustain and brightness that is lost, without spending $50 on a brass block. haha
I would be really interested in the Kraken profil, which you use with the Kemper. Sounds really good!!
Very professional, well done! Is it safe to assume these components are perfectly suitable for another type of floating trem system?
+glyn humphreys absolutely man. He does mods to all kinds of Guitars
hey Bea, great video and nice tips. but you should put s towel or something like that under the guitar to avoid scratching it
I think these mods are more of a playability thing. There's an audible difference but it's subtle. It goes nicer. I have a trem stopper that I can always regulate to float or not. Want to get a block and the silent Springs are awesome too
You missed the brass claw upgrade. I found that my floyd lost some of the highs and mellowed out with the big brass block making it a bit mid heavy, the brass claw which comes with brass screws for about a tenner seemed to balance it out a bit.
you have to sodder it, pain the in the ass
Bea you are the man, man! 🤘
brighter tone with the FUtone installed, seems to have more sustain too!
have you gotten to mess around with the Floyd Rose FRX??? what are you thoughts on it???
Hey Bea,
I noticed at 9:00 that you had your iphone monitoring your main cam. What camera and app are those? They look super handy.
Hey Rabea! What gauge strings are you using? I have always used Ernie Ball Power Slinky M-Steel 11-48. Curious what gauge the D'Addarios were! Thanks for the video!
Do you think that the noisless springs from Floyd Rose are worth it as the one's from FU-Tone ??
I just wanna upgrade my fat10 bridge to F.R.(Floyd Ross) bridge, so can I upgrade my Ibanez 170dx fat10 to F.R. bridge? please let me know.
Do you have to set the intonation again after installing the term block?
I once buried a Fender Telecaster under some peat & moss for three months to assist in it's relicing process but, your guitar (ML-1) looks like its 30+ yrs.old...amazing ..now what was that about the Flloyd Rose tremolo system?
Does your software not show a difference in sustain?
What does the sound wave look like before and after!
That guitar looks amazing!
Is it solid mahogany?
A 2 piece?
Did you say you had 60's on that?
What are your string gauges on it?
I had almost the exact same idea for a trem stop but I wasn't sure how thick the wood is there so I balked at it.
Hi man! im your fan from Portugal!
and im a bassplayer and i learn a lot from y! since that videos for Andertons ;)
and i see that y lost weight :p ahah
hey bea! I know this isn't relevant to the video, but I'm in a bit of a bind. I don't have any guitar stores near me to test amps out. I have 500-600 dollars for an amp. fine with used. I play ink Floyd, Hendrix, stones, and I'm branching into metal a bit more but sticking with my classic roots. what would you suggest? thanks for so much helpful content by the way. helped me tame my Floyd on my syn custom !
Very nice. I went for the black jack. Do one
of those?
Nice video, cheers man!
Hi, Any difference in the attack with the brass block?
I think I hear more sustain and possibly a little more treble too. Thanks!
How do you know much to drill before hitting the pickup cavity?
Hey Rabea, what kind of wood was used to make the top of this guitar?
Slick mods. Surprised you didn't add the brass PMS plate for the pickups.
Did you cut the new strings to put in the sustain block?
You are looking great man!
After; sounded slightly brighter with more clarity. Maybe the brass block. Interesting video.
Adam is a stand up guy. His products are awesome. I want his guitar now.
wow I didnt expect to hear much difference other than sustain but man it sounds thicker
looking healthy Rabea! keep it up!
did u left a room for some little trem noise if u plug it in ?
I’ve used foam and ear plugs even in regular strings saves money and works he same tho I think the coated strings are a higher tention
hi all, is it possible use only trem-stopper on a edge-pro?
Blocking floyd : Get a couple of coins (number of coins will vary depending on country lol), some tape, and double sided tape, wrap coins in tape, stick the tapped coins with double sided tape to the wood in front or behind (or both) the block (front of block if you want to drop tune) takes 5 minutes to and is very effective, and costs the price of the coins and tape...
Double sided tape? Sounds like a tone choke to me. I'll pass
I pop a length of surgical tubing into my trem springs. It shuts them up nicely
Would you recommend a Floyd rose as your first electric guitar?
I've been looking at these types of videos all yesterday and I was literally thinking "I hope Rabea posts a trem mod video" and today it happened. Thanks for the great timing!!
Do you think there is still a need to clamp the strings at the nut now? Wouldn't it make life easier to get rid of these?
I think more sustain and crispier sound. Makes a difference. Some people can say, I don't care the difference isn't worth the money, but that little difference in sound makes Your sound more distinctive and it separates hobby guitarist from pro player. Am I right?
Does the 'Stopper' make it easier to change strings ?
I don't use FR systems but this was a cool video. I think it sounds better after.
very nice pickup. what model you put in??
Yeah I've been using this stuff for years, cannot recommend enough.