On Lockdown
In defence of the doublelocking tremolo
The double-locking tremolo design is owned and licensed by Floyd Rose and it divides player opinion, but the association with shredders, tricky string changes and fiddly tuning is somewhat unfair, to say the least. We’d argue it’s simply a matter of getting used to the change and then enjoying the greater tonal and practical flexibility offered here. The idea of the locking system is to remove any tuning variables from string winds at the tuning pegs; each string is locked at each end, with a locking nut preventing the machine heads from being used, and a ‘floating bridge’ held and balanced against the string tension via a spring design that locks at the other end.