Stop tail vs tremolo bridge
Stop tail vs tremolo bridge
Why does mark use stop tail bridges on down and alternate tuned guitars? Why not have tremolo bridges on all of them?
Last edited by mitch103 on Sun Oct 18, 2015 11:19 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Stop tail vs tremolo bridge
What a bunch of help you clowns are
Re: Stop tail vs tremolo bridge
How about he needs whammy on all of them?mitch103 wrote:Why does mark use stop tail bridges of down and alternate tuned guitars? Why not have tremolo bridges on all of them?
Re: Stop tail vs tremolo bridge
I'm not following what you mean
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What are you not following? If you need a whammy bar on a guitar, you can't put a stop tail on it, that's pretty obvious. If he wants to mess around with the bar on drop C, C#, open D etc. he needs a whammy on basically every guitar.mitch103 wrote:I'm not following what you mean
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But what I'm saying is that based on what I've seen on live videos over the past 10 years, he only uses a guitar with a tremolo bridge on songs that are tuned standard or dropped a half step. On songs that are either lower than that or in an alternate tuning such as open b or open d, based off of the same live videos I mentioned above, he only uses guitars with a stop tail bridge, regardless of whether or not a whammy bar would be helpful on those songs. I think you may have misunderstood my original post
Last edited by mitch103 on Sun Oct 18, 2015 11:21 am, edited 1 time in total.
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I suppose I'll make a guess at answering my own question. Maybe it's because when using lower or alternate tunings, he only uses tremolo bridges because they stay in tune bettwr?
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This maybe be the case, but generally guitarists do use tremolo bridge guitars in standard tuning because they always keep them in such condition and messing around with tunings on tremolo-bridged guitars is a pain in the ass. He uses so many guitars for all his projects which serve many different tunings, as you've mentioned open D or B, on stop tails he does not have to adjust anything, that's why he uses stop tail guitars for alternate tunings.
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I'd imagine it may be more difficult to keep a tremolo bridge guitar in tune at a low tuning. Easier to upkeep if he doesn't need to use a whammy bar on those songs.
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