{"id":120,"date":"2007-12-06T20:37:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T01:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2007-12-06T20:59:49","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T01:59:49","slug":"speedloader-tremolo-i-didnt-believe-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"SpeedLoader Tremolo – I Didn’t Believe It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several months ago, I purchased 2 Floyd Rose Discovery<\/a> guitars with Floyd Rose’s newSpeedloader<\/a> locking tremolo. The first thing you’ll notice about the guitars is that they have no tuning pegs. The tuners are eliminated because the strings are precisely cut to length and pre-stretched so that tuning the guitar doesn’t require any winding. (ie: around a tuner peg.) <\/p>\n

While I bought these guitars for their tuning stability and ease of string changes, deep down in my techie soul I didn’t really believe the Floyd Rose marketing-speak claiming that string changes can be done in only a few minutes. My Discovery DST-1 was in serious need of a string change, so today I went to Sam Ash<\/a> , bought a pack of SpeedLoader strings, and embarked on my first journey through a SpeedLoader string change.<\/p>\n

Let me just say, WOW. Changing strings IS as easy as Floyd Rose claims. No tools are needed. No winding is required. You simply unclip the string at the tremolo end, and remove the other end from the nut. To put a string on, you simply reverse the procedure. It took me about 5 minutes to do all the strings. Floyd Rose has really made a great tremolo. It has all the advantages of the Original Floyd Rose tremolo in regard to tuning stability, but none of the restringing headaches. I’ve got to say that I’m really impressed. <\/p>\n

The only drawback to the SpeedLoader system<\/a> is that it uses proprietary strings. Guitar Center doesn’t carry them, but to my amazement, Sam Ash<\/a> does, and at a good price. So props to Sam Ash for not abandoning us SpeedLoader users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several months ago, I purchased 2 Floyd Rose Discovery guitars with Floyd Rose’s newSpeedloader locking tremolo. The first thing you’ll notice about the guitars is that they have no tuning pegs. The tuners are eliminated …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32FB4-1W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":115,"url":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=115","url_meta":{"origin":120,"position":0},"title":"Under-appreciated Guitar : Floyd Rose Discovery Series","author":"Matt","date":"November 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I own 2 of the Speedloader Tremolo versions of this guitar, and got each of them on clearance for $150 because they just never became popular. 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