help with D TUNA!!!!

[charvettelover]

hello JCFers....i am joining a "modern rock" band, and need to install a D TUNA on my floyd....do these things work???? if you drop to D with a floating floyd, will you still be in tune? what the heck? or should i get a hardtail? :-)

any input is appreciated....

[Ralph E.]

Re: help with D TUNA!!!!

For the D-Tuna to work, you need to block the floyd so you can't pull up on it. That way when you use the D-Tuna and relieve tension, the floyd will still stay in a fixed position, and not wreak havoc on the tuning.

[jgcable]

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The best way to drop D with a full floater Floyd is to install a Hipshot Tremsetter. After you tune up, turn the low E fine tuner in almost all the way and tune to pitch and lock the nut. For drop D, just back the low E fine tuner out. There will be enough travel for you to get from E to D. The Hipshot tremetter will keep the remaining 5 strings in key. This is the only way to drop D with a full floater that I know of.

[~K~]

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The best way to drop D with a full floater Floyd is to install a Hipshot Tremsetter. After you tune up, turn the low E fine tuner in almost all the way and tune to pitch and lock the nut. For drop D, just back the low E fine tuner out. There will be enough travel for you to get from E to D. The Hipshot tremetter will keep the remaining 5 strings in key. This is the only way to drop D with a full floater that I know of.

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Thats also the acceptable way of using a dtuna I beleive

[jwoods986]

Re: help with D TUNA!!!!

Just get a Wolfgang! Or two [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[Zerberus]

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D-Tuna = Tremsetter or Block the trem. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[jwoods986]

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I just read jackson1's thread about the Tremsetter - very cool item. My only question is, can you still pull the trem up or does it only go down?

[noodlesatf]

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The Tremsetter replaces your center spring, so you can still go up and down. It is a trem "stabalizer" that helps return your trem to zero position every time, and keeps it more stable at zero position in relation to drop-D and string bends.

[jwoods986]

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Well damn that sounds good. I wonder why it isn't OE on new guitars? Seems like it would be a good selling point to me.

[magh8]

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I have one in my fender strat plus.it came with it and it works.when you break a string the rest do stay in tune.great add-on

[noodlesatf]

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It's not a standard feature on most guitars because it slightly changes the feel of the trem. Some people just don't like it. It makes it a lot harder to do "chirps".

[sully]

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The best way to drop D with a full floater Floyd is to install a Hipshot Tremsetter. After you tune up, turn the low E fine tuner in almost all the way and tune to pitch and lock the nut. For drop D, just back the low E fine tuner out. There will be enough travel for you to get from E to D. The Hipshot tremetter will keep the remaining 5 strings in key. This is the only way to drop D with a full floater that I know of.

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yep... the Ghetto D-Tuna, or what I like to call the G-Tuna! works every time... [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] hm. anyone else want a colt 45?

[SeventhSon]

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Well damn that sounds good. I wonder why it isn't OE on new guitars? Seems like it would be a good selling point to me.

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It was on the Peavey EVH Wolfgangs.

[Hotrod]

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Well damn that sounds good. I wonder why it isn't OE on new guitars? Seems like it would be a good selling point to me.

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It was on the Peavey EVH Wolfgangs.

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I think he was referring to the tremsetter. AFAIK the Fender Strat Plus line of the early 90's had them stock. Not sure if they still do or not.

[roodyrocker]

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Has anyone here tried Sperzel's D-Thingy? Its a locking low E tuner with a lever on the back of it. Its used with non-locking nuts of course. Once tuned, you just flip the lever one way for E and the other for D. I'm considering this on a future custom shop Rhoads some day. Just wondering if anyone here has tried it?

Rudy