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Titanium Floyd Rose Big-Blocks are the shiznit.
I've been a fan of Floydupgrades.com's Brass Big Blocks for OFRs for over a year now, and I finally decided to give the Titanium ones a shot. I dropped for one last week that was an Ebay steal (I seriously scored, like 2/3rds off), arrived yesterday. I removed the Brass one from my 1-piece Koa-bodied Warmoth Strat and replaced it with the Titanium model. After re-assembling the bridge and then re-setting up the guitar, one thing became instantly apparent:
It's amazing! Titanium is a completely different animal, to say the least. As drastic an improvement as the Brass Big Block is over the standard production Floyd block (and it is), this is over the Brass. Unbelievable note clarity and definition - notes seem to have a 'presence' for lack of a better word that was not there before. The low-end corpulence was increased noticeably, giving palm-mutes an increased urgency (this even in a guitar with a Duncan Custom Custom pickup in the bridge slot, widely rumored here to be notoriously 'soft' on the low-end. Not so in this application). Overall notes seem to 'explode' off the pick, as if your pick-attack is translated more quickly and efficiently. Not to mention one need only strike the string with your left hand on the fretboard to get the note to sound, making legato and hammer-on runs even more liquid and aggressive sounding. Harmonics seem to literally jump from the fretboard. The effect is similar to that of a sonic maximizer, if you can imagine it. Suddenly my guitar has a new level of expressiveness I'm only beginning to appreciate. Uh, yeah...I like it, a lot!! As Fat Bastard would say, "It's dead sexy!"
And the sustain... Again, at the risk of sounding like Nigel Tufnel, it is endless. Effortless. Open chords ring forever, and single notes sing vocally, infinitely, almost majestically. Now I completely understand what Adam at Floydupgrades meant when he said "Welcome to your new crack habit." I think I'm in love with the things.
Here's the staredown mid-swap:
14 second phone clip...
It's amazing! Titanium is a completely different animal, to say the least. As drastic an improvement as the Brass Big Block is over the standard production Floyd block (and it is), this is over the Brass. Unbelievable note clarity and definition - notes seem to have a 'presence' for lack of a better word that was not there before. The low-end corpulence was increased noticeably, giving palm-mutes an increased urgency (this even in a guitar with a Duncan Custom Custom pickup in the bridge slot, widely rumored here to be notoriously 'soft' on the low-end. Not so in this application). Overall notes seem to 'explode' off the pick, as if your pick-attack is translated more quickly and efficiently. Not to mention one need only strike the string with your left hand on the fretboard to get the note to sound, making legato and hammer-on runs even more liquid and aggressive sounding. Harmonics seem to literally jump from the fretboard. The effect is similar to that of a sonic maximizer, if you can imagine it. Suddenly my guitar has a new level of expressiveness I'm only beginning to appreciate. Uh, yeah...I like it, a lot!! As Fat Bastard would say, "It's dead sexy!"
And the sustain... Again, at the risk of sounding like Nigel Tufnel, it is endless. Effortless. Open chords ring forever, and single notes sing vocally, infinitely, almost majestically. Now I completely understand what Adam at Floydupgrades meant when he said "Welcome to your new crack habit." I think I'm in love with the things.
Here's the staredown mid-swap:
14 second phone clip...
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