floyd rose help?

[moquaga]

i have an ibanez xiphos xpt700 and i can't play in anything but d standard (one full step down) my springs are already almost maxed out yet my bridge is still tilted towards the back of my guitar so i can't pull my tremolo up. any suggestions besides loosening my springs? I've been playing for 5 years but this is my first tremolo bridge so this is a learning experience to say the least. hehe.

[Jonners]

At 6/27/09 04:07 PM, moquaga wrote: i have an ibanez xiphos xpt700

Ahh, there's your problem.

[Jonners]

Now with the helping bit.

Floyd Roses use a double locking trem system which means it won't let your guitar go out of tune (brilliant!) except you can't tune it yourself either... What you should find are some little knobs that need twisting on the floyd, these should loosen it, allowing you to tune your guitar. Then all you have to do is re-tighten teh knobs and you're good to go.

However! Mine is not an actual Floyd Rose, so it may vary, mine is come other bridge that uses a similar mechanism, so be wary!

But seriously, why would you buy a Xiphos? I don't mind the shape, ut the xpt700 and it's shitty, ugly red chameleon? It's just hideous!

[Jonners]

After realising how useless I was, I decided to do some reasearch.

This tells you how to tune a Floyd Rose properly.

[Obsessed117]

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/sho wthread.php?t=614226>This should help you out for most FR related stuff

[Obsessed117]

It seems I failed with my html lul

[moquaga]

i'm sorry to bring this up again. i was half asleep while posting. it's an edge III.