No. of Tremolo springs

[saplingg]

I heard 5 springs as opposed to 3 gives you more sustain. Is this true?

I heard it will also offer more resistance when you whammy, which I'm looking for..

Thing I noticed about the floating trem on my JP is I that when I bend a string and hit another note at the same time, the second note is a little flat because of the bend. Will adding more strings help? (I presume it will... more springs = more tension = more like a fixed bridge)

How many springs do you use?

 

[Ripper]

3 spring + a tremol-no = versatility.

 

[Jack FFR1846]

On a floating floyd guitar that I've got, I found exactly the same thing, which drove me nuts. The ending lead to Hotel California.....where you're bending the G string a full tone and playing a note on the high e. Ugh....what was that note anyways.....my finger's pressing the right fret??? I went from 3 springs to 5. That solved the problem but then my 7 year old could not whammy at all. (it's his favorite electric that I have) It becomes quite a bit more difficult, if you want to dive bomb an octive (which I do). It's really pretty easy to just experiment. Add the 2 additional springs (you'll probably have two diaganol ones that'll have to move to straight) and try it. If the whammy's too much, go to 4 and try that. For a test, don't even bother resetting the floyd (unless you've got an hour to kill between tests).

It made me appreciate my non-floating trems on the ASS and Sub1....which I have at 3 springs, but tightened down enough that a 2 tone bend won't move the trem at all.

jack