technical question about a petrucci setup

[Ang3lus]

you think if i'd put the bridge flat against the body (Screw the pivot screws till they are finger tight), woulden't that give better tonal transfer ?
i did an experiment with a strat and i've had a far more defined tone with the pivot screws all the way in.

asking cause i wanna know if it's recommended or not.

 

[the24thfret]

What's a pivot screw? It's a full floating trem, you won't get it "resting on the body" without being seriously pulled down into the cavity. Your best bet if you want to do something like that for "tonal" purposes is to put a small block of wood inside the savity under the trem and have it pulled down to rest on that. But remember the body is basswood so it's not some super-tonal wood where you're going to all of a sudden have an incredible sounding guitar that you didn't have before. IMO the JP won't sound very different, if at all, if you were to do this. Best of luck.

 

[Funky D]

you think if i'd put the bridge flat against the body (Screw the pivot screws till they are finger tight), woulden't that give better tonal transfer ?
i did an experiment with a strat and i've had a far more defined tone with the pivot screws all the way in.

asking cause i wanna know if it's recommended or not.

The guitar would have zero tone cuz you would be fretted out. I think the jp6 sounds as good as it can from the factory.
I like the trem a bit more stiff, as I am a bit heavy handed on my picking hand. So a I added all 5 springs to the trem instead of locking it out.
Make sure your bridge is about level (parallel) with the guitar body, and Ive got mine pretty low, about 1/4" above the body. That's about as low as you can go.

 

[bkrumme]

Make sure your bridge is about level (parallel) with the guitar body, and Ive got mine pretty low, about 1/4" above the body. That's about as low as you can go.

1/4" above the body sounds high to me for ANY tremolo. Where are you measuring from? The strings? The main trem plate? The saddles?

 

[MusicManJP6]

The top of the base of my trem where it says "music man" is just barely above my JP's body.

 

[bkrumme]

The top of the base of my trem where it says "music man" is just barely above my JP's body.

That's what I was thinking. 1/4" above the body measured from there would be WAY high...