Do you whammy?

roachello · Post by **roachello** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:26 am

Just wondering how many of you use your whammy bars? Lately Fredo's been teaching me some My Bloody Valentine methodology on the jazzy and it's been pretty fun. Otherwise, I usually just take it off and pull some Sonic Youth rubdown shiet with it.

Any other fun things to do with your whammy bar?

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:37 am

After listening to MBV for a while my hand started to automatically work the trem bar while strumming chords. It's the only time I use is. I love the bending into chords sound so much.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:42 am

i love the trem,
i use it in any and all fashions, the mbv style is fun altho i don;t use it regularly.
on a regular basis im doing shimmerz and light dips and sweeps. and for certain tunes i use a very voilent method of using the trem, basically grab the bar and jerk and yank uncontrollably sometimes moving the guitar itself.
WHAMMY FTW!

filtercap · Post by **filtercap** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:55 am

I defnitly use it on Stratocaster. Not for divebombs or stranglings (usually), but for shimmerz & dips like Robert was saying, plus subtle pitch-shifts, volume stutters, and for increasing sustain on a note. There's other cool stuff like bending up into a note, doing a little whammy dip or pull, and then releasing the note at almost the same time for a little 3- or 4-note run. Bent double-stops (sorta pedal-steely stuff) can sound cool with a little trem bar too. I pull up on the bar about as often as pushing down, so my Strato bridge is set up "floating" in the middle. That's the only whammified guitar I have.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:11 am

I lock down strat style trems, but I use my bigsby on the artcore ALL THE TIME. I love it.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:03 pm

filtercap wrote:I definitely use it on Stratocaster. Not for divebombs or stranglings (usually)

+1

Post by **Doog** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:20 pm

Use it on the Jazzy lots, never goes out of tune. Ditto the Contemporary Telecaster.

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Post by **Mike** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:23 pm

I don't have a guitar with a tremelo anymore, but when I did I would just hardtail them, because I'm a buzzkill.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:54 pm

Doog wrote: WEEEOoOOOOOOHMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm

That's the sort of stuff I like doing, I'm an aggressive player, so when I'm using a whammy, I tend to throw the gutiar around quite a bit.

I really enjoy hitting harmonics on several strings and messing about with the whammy bar. I'd also use a kill switch whilst doing this for some cool effects that sound nearly vocal, or maybe it just sounds like th clangers.

euan · Post by **euan** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:06 pm

I've never really gotten the technique down for it. Plus on my Mustang I can't get it to stay intune or stable unless the stop piece is yanked as far as it goes down.

This way it is my most stable guitar.

aphasiac · Post by **aphasiac** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:08 pm

never touched the whammy on my jag, and my jag-stang vibrato tailpiece is locked.

But my yamaha RGX321 has a floyd rose, so yeh used to use the whammy when playing live, to sustain notes at end or in middle of a solo. and sometimes to add a bit of shimmer to single chords.

But overall, i mostly dont bother.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:55 pm

On the ones where I lockdown the strat trem, I still do whammy style sonds by bending that fucking neck.
You can hear this in action on our version of The Who song The Seeker on our myspace page. http://www.myspace.com/recklessmojo

Post by **Hurb** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:13 pm

I love to whammy

filtercap · Post by **filtercap** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:55 pm

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Captain Lockheed · Post by **Captain Lockheed** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:28 pm

Yes, but very subtly applied.

dodgedartdave · Post by **dodgedartdave** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:10 pm

I'm a trem user.

I perfer a Bronco or a Bigsby.

Have I ever said that before?

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:25 pm

Of course.

JordanD · Post by **JordanD** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:50 pm

I use mine all the time. I use it for different techniques, I guess it just depends on what I'm playing. I LOOOVVVEEE the trem on the Strat. It's awesome.

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:52 pm

as subtle as the jag trem is, the bronco is even more so. i think i prefer the jag trem out of all of them.
i'm so bad at it, i usually just use it for making noise.

finboy · Post by **finboy** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:03 pm

my only trem guitar (cyclone) is still waiting for parts for the buildup.

i still have to pick up a jm/jag style guitar

how well do the bronco tailpieces stay in tune?