How to setup your new guitar + trem tips (floyd rose style).
The Tone King | Sep 01, 2009 | Comments 7
Floyd Rose Set-Up
1) If your guitar came w/ some allen keys – go get them. If not, ask your dad or your friend. If they don’t have them, don’t drop more than a few bucks for a standard and metric set at your local hardware store.
2) Loosen the locking nuts at the top (for those guitars equipmed w/ FR style trems that have locking nuts).
3) Set all of the fine tuners (on the trem) right in the middle.
4) Tune your guitar in the order to the right … (assuming 440).
5) Stretch your strings.
6) Tune again until in tune. (Then repeat 5 & 6 until your guitar stays in tune after a few stretches.)
7) Check the tilt of the trem. If it’s flush, perfect. Move onto step 8. If NOT flush, adjust w/ the screws on the back (tightening the screws will pull it back, loosening the screws will release it forward a bit). Then tune again. This may take a few tries, but you want your trem flush with the body.
Adjust the intonation.
9) Lock the locking nuts
10) Adjust the action. Then, like most great amps that go to 11 –
Step 11 is : ENJOY YOUR GUITAR !!! You just saved yourself about $50 – $75
on a quick set-up!
ORDER OF TUNING A FLOYD ROSE STYLE TREM :
CUT THIS OUT, KEEP A COPY IN YOUR GUITAR CASE :
1 – Low E (1st string)
2 – High E (6th string)
3 – B (5th string)
4 – A (2nd string)
5 – G (3rd string)
6 – D (4th string)
KEEP TUNING until the guitar is in tune. You may have to do a few times,
but trust me – your guitar WILL come into tune.
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Hey, I dig your way of tuning that’s shown, but am I wrong that the high E is known as the first string,B,the second string, etc?…That’s how I was taught… Maybe I’m mistaken…No biggie here,though;I understand the tuning method.
I tend to have trouble with for example on the Jackson RR3 Rhoads Pro…The Licensed Low Profile Floyd Rose Tremolo System..any tips?
hey can you guive me some tips on how to set the intonition and atction on my guitar? thanks.
hey good tips but idk how to set the action or intoniton on my guitar. got any tips? thanks. much appreciated.
Great work, webmaster, nice
Great site with useful tips.
I am having a problem tuning my floyd rose — the strings keep popping out of the blocks in the floyd rose. I got the guitar used so I also dont know which way to add the blocks correctly. (the blocks have holes in them… which way do those go? )
Thanks!
hey bro(: when i have problem with my guitar i will always refer to the tone king. But i would like to know how to i lower the string height? thanks(: