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Position:Home>Performing Arts> Why is my guitar going out of tune?Question: Why is my guitar going out of tune!? My guitar is anIbanez JS 100 with a licensed double locking floyd rose tremolo bar!. it just got fixe with new wirng!. But when i got it, and put it through my tuner, it was out of tune!. and now no matter what i do, it never goes in standard tuningWww@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Sometimes it takes a few days for the trem to settle down, and the problem is much worse if you have thicker strings!.!.!. new strings have a different tension than older strings, so even that small of a difference will throw them off!. Welcome to the wonderful world of floating tremolos! I suggest you start googling or buy a book on how to set it up yourself - that way you can tweak with it until you figure how to get it right!. Then you don't have to pay anyone to do it for you!. PS Don't touch the truss rod unless you are 110% certain you know what you're doing!. Everything else is fixable, but if you screw up your truss rod your guitar (or at least the neck) is hosed!. SaulWww@QuestionHome@Com If their is locking mechanism on your guitar, why should it not stay in tune !? Something fishy here!.!. First tune it to almost perfect, then lock the mechanism and finish off the tuning from the bridge!. Now, if that doesn't work, verify your pickups to make sure that they are not too close to the strings, especially the neck pickup!. Many do not realize that a pickup has a lot of magnetic pull and can tend to pull the string down!. This is enough to drive you crazy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Do you have the nut Locked down!? , Do you have the Neck straight!? Is your Neck adjustment Rod Loose!? , Are you trying to tune with the tuning keys instead of the small black Adjustment Keys on the top of the Neck!?You must tune the Guitar all at the same time slowly , until you get it i Within 1/8 of a semitone of your target note on your Digital Tuner !. then raise it to the target note biggest string first !. Tension is what the (Floating) whammy bar uses to keep your guitar in tune the tension on all strings must equal each strings target Note!!!!! Otherwise you have MUSH! also don't forget your strings must also stretch to their adjustment point Best regards Good Luck !. I had many years of enjoyment with Floating wham-mys!! Enjoy !. If problem link to me in answers Ill see your !?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com |