😆 Paul's expression and enthusiasm in his voice after the swap. Even the excitement in his hands! Love this. How many times did he say, "Listen to that!" Great demo. Thanks GW.
The guitar goes from “this is one of my favorite strats that I own and use it to play live”, to “this guy [the guitar] was dead and is actually enjoyable to play!” It’s your favorite strat and for live use, but it was dead and not enjoyable? I’m so confused with this mixed messaging.
I didn’t want to be negative but I am engineer and no physics that I can think of would make a significant change I think the perception for Paul is the following: new strings, different set up, decked vs floating, Amp setting change ( I have no evidence but I suspect). I can see Pauls technical ignorance even after 30 years playing Strats and Super Strats he had no idea where bridge screws were.
Brass has noticeable tone difference anytime you add it into the equation. I put a brass nut on a guitar that already sounded good acoustically and now is brilliant in tone
So they stop selling the brass Charvel style v trem with the brass arm tip for $189.99 and they replace it with the same exact brass tremolo but with an FUTone stamp on it and no brass tipped tremolo arm and they now charge $249.95?? 🤔 Seems like a serious downgrade and for almost $100 more at that.
Your saddles would be the area of highest stress. Wear occurs between dissimilar metals and like metals of different hardness. Most guitarist unfortunately buy into all pseudoscience.
@bluwng saddles are easily replaceable, these are normal wear parts. Your comment is stupid and you judge people without knowing. You better shut up. People like you pollute the world with their noseabond ego
@@Ottophil this doesn’t have brass screws not even sure that is a thing. New strings and amp settings is what caused this if I had to put money down…also decked vs floating bridge.
Pick up mounting system also adds this unique chime. Need this for my Strat because I'm a metal player and mute A LOT. The stock Fender saddles are literally sharp, pure garbage.
If I were going to demo a bridge, I would also demo a functioning tremolo. The Tone can be EQd or overdriven without the need for a brass block and saddles.
😆 Paul's expression and enthusiasm in his voice after the swap. Even the excitement in his hands! Love this. How many times did he say, "Listen to that!" Great demo. Thanks GW.
1/16 inch is a lot for the front screws also they all need to be uniform so it’s not good to guess.
My thoughts as well...👍
The guitar goes from “this is one of my favorite strats that I own and use it to play live”, to “this guy [the guitar] was dead and is actually enjoyable to play!”
It’s your favorite strat and for live use, but it was dead and not enjoyable? I’m so confused with this mixed messaging.
I had a Schecter strat from the 90's in the shop
Brass nut
Brass trem... floating
That beast just rang out like a Casino
I'm gonna go out on a limb here...but I think Paul liked it.
I'd love to see a telecaster bridge of this! This sounds hard.
Easiest way to remember intonation: "if it's flat, move it forward". Flat=forward. If sharp, just the opposite.
That thing sounds awesome
Were the amp settings the same?
Is that the JB Jr. seymour duncan in the bridge position? Sounds amazing
78 mini
Ok. Did anyone notice it was floating before? They decked the bridge and even without changing anything that makes a HUGE difference!!!
I’m sure all the brass makes a difference but I’m also wondering how it the vibration is. Also. Float it and let’s hear how it sounds.
The more anything other than strings vibrate on a guitar, the less sustain it will have.
I didn’t want to be negative but I am engineer and no physics that I can think of would make a significant change I think the perception for Paul is the following: new strings, different set up, decked vs floating, Amp setting change ( I have no evidence but I suspect). I can see Pauls technical ignorance even after 30 years playing Strats and Super Strats he had no idea where bridge screws were.
Brass has noticeable tone difference anytime you add it into the equation. I put a brass nut on a guitar that already sounded good acoustically and now is brilliant in tone
Yeah man .,i have the block and saddles in brass as well as the nut.....👍
I've been thinking about installing one of these on my MatrixBrute.
So they stop selling the brass Charvel style v trem with the brass arm tip for $189.99 and they replace it with the same exact brass tremolo but with an FUTone stamp on it and no brass tipped tremolo arm and they now charge $249.95?? 🤔 Seems like a serious downgrade and for almost $100 more at that.
Anything FU Tone is unbelievably expensive
That is Business baby!
I usually put brass saddles and brass block. I leave the original plate to avoid wear problems.
Your saddles would be the area of highest stress. Wear occurs between dissimilar metals and like metals of different hardness. Most guitarist unfortunately buy into all pseudoscience.
@bluwng saddles are easily replaceable, these are normal wear parts.
Your comment is stupid and you judge people without knowing. You better shut up. People like you pollute the world with their noseabond ego
Same setup I have...👍
This is great. Like a old charvel pre pro days.
Not Necessarily! I’ve tried a brass block on my 56’, the sound wasn’t Better.
I worry about the brass base plate wearing against the 6 screws.
Brass screws
@@Ottophil this doesn’t have brass screws not even sure that is a thing. New strings and amp settings is what caused this if I had to put money down…also decked vs floating bridge.
@@bluwng brass balls
@@bluwngbrass screws exist
Great idea
Hey Now...
Merlin 5 or Off Shore?
intonation should be set in the playing position not laid flat
AND…. You NEVER set intonation with a tuner! That’s tuning by EYE 👁️. You need to tune by EAR 👂🏻!!! I could set that guitar correctly..
*checked in playing position
Nice.
It sounded like Paul was Golfing or Sailing 🤣
Pick up mounting system also adds this unique chime. Need this for my Strat because I'm a metal player and mute A LOT. The stock Fender saddles are literally sharp, pure garbage.
Hahahah, "We're going to, I believe, change the bridge".
If I were going to demo a bridge, I would also demo a functioning tremolo. The Tone can be EQd or overdriven without the need for a brass block and saddles.
It's more about tactile feedback to the player. If the guitar inspires you, you might play it more and a bit differently.
It‘s an old myth that anything behind the guitar like cables, effects, amp, speaker etc. is able to compensate what‘s not coming from the guitar.
Once you feel playing a guitar with some brass in there, other stuff feels dull
That guitar went from whatever to iconic performance machine
not to sound like a weirdo but Adam is looking good...healthier, like he's been working out...well done👍
wasting money on this nonsense is a big FU to us all
Huge difference. I wonder what this would do to a Suhr.
Come on Paul. You know how a tremolo block attaches to a base plate. 😐
There's some old trems that are molded block and baseplate
Now he needs to change his Neck pickup to a 50's style because that "unique tone" on the neck was not pleasant