Floyd rose query

brendansmith

Hi guys,

Just wondering if someone could tell me the difference between a floyd rose tremelo and a floyd rose licenced tremelo?

Why does everyone wet their pants over an original and vomit their guts out at a licenced? Is there that much of a difference and if so what are these differences?

Doctor J

The original is made by Floyd Rose in the US (or a Floyd branded Schaller made unit in Germany depending on which one you get) and is made to a very high standard from high quality materials. It's a proven design, it works and it works for many years. With licenced, they really just licence the floating double locking design, not the build quality. The actual quality is up to the manufacturer. Some are utter ****e, some arguably exceed the quality of the Floyd Rose branded models. I used to have a guitar with the Ibanez Edge design, I've currently got a guitar with a Gotoh made design, both are superb, the match of the original, although the design is licenced from Floyd Rose. Fey has a guitar with a Schaller trem in it which is also top quality. I've played plenty of pieces of **** too though, a cheap Jackson which would never stay in tune, for example. If you buy a genuinely good guitar with a licenced trem in it, you can generally rest easy that it too will be quality. If you buy a budget guitar, you can have an educated guess that the licence trem will be made of cheap materials and will not perform to the same level as a real Floyd or a high quality licenced design.

Voodu Child

The Original Floyd is made to a high standard for the company that 'invented' the Floyd, thats why its often the benchmark. They hold the patents, so anyone who wants to make a copy just has to pay them a few quid, and put 'Licenced by' on the trem.

Licenced copies are made by varies companies, so theres a huge variation in quality. The Schaller Licenced Floyd is basically on par with an OFR, because Schaller happen to make some OFRs anyway.

But theres all sorts of cheap tat cranked out for budget guitars. They might be made to the same basic design as the OFR, but manufacturing quality and tolerance can be bad, or materials etc.

brendansmith

My god lads, i see what you mean.

I went to the guitar shop over the weekend there to check out the schecter C1 hellraiser and had a play of it........your man nearly had to drag it away from me. Must have been playing it for an hour tbh.

I have only played crap licenced FR's and I see the very obvious difference now.

I cant wait to get this guitar, its kinda difficult to figure out what to get the missus for christmas when all you can think about is the new GAS apple of your eye.


Actually lads to save me from making another thread.
6 string or 7????? - I just cant decide! (PS NEVER PLAYED A 7 but for 200$ extra, why not?)

-=al=-

they just feel cheap and almost plasticy

same with the ibanez trems, the higher end ones are nice the low ones just feel gimmicky and like they're going to break


actually i broke a tremolo arm one in my edge pro trem, but the difference is mad from the edge pro trems to the edge pro III's or similar...

Karl Hungus

brendansmith wrote: »

Actually lads to save me from making another thread.
6 string or 7????? - I just cant decide! (PS NEVER PLAYED A 7 but for 200$ extra, why not?)

I'm pro 7, but I would say to you to try one out before you lay money down, they're not for everyone.

brendansmith

-=al=- wrote: »

they just feel cheap and almost plasticy

same with the ibanez trems, the higher end ones are nice the low ones just feel gimmicky and like they're going to break


actually i broke a tremolo arm one in my edge pro trem, but the difference is mad from the edge pro trems to the edge pro III's or similar...

Absolutely man,

I always thought they were abit gimicky but had to have one anyway and when i played with the original FR i just thought, wow this just feels lovely and natural!