Help! Regular Slinkys on my Schecter Synyster Standard

[Instinct]

So I'm completely new to this floating tremolo business. (I've owned one before but never needed a restring)

But I just got a Synyster Standard off my friend and he had .11 Strings on it now i have regular slinky which i believe is .10?

But thats not the issue, I balanced the tremolo but when i tune it and lock it, It goes up to F-ish tuning when i want it in E.

Fine tuning isnt helping because when i do fine tune it, it just goes back up.

So what am i supposed to do?

 

[beej]

Hi there-

You need to set up your trem differently with lighter strings. You need to back the tension off the trem claw (in the trem cavity, screwed to the body of the guitar) or remove a spring. There are lots of resources on the web to help you adjust your trem, or you can take it a local tech to set up for you if you're not comfortable working on your guitar.

Whenever you change string gauge, there's usually a little setup work involved to get things just right.

 

[Instinct]

Ok so i did take it to a local tech and he got into D and it stayed that way pretty much all day today but now its a bit off. Its more along the lines of a step higher. Like a drop Eb if thats even possible. And the fine tuners are as back as they can possibly be. What would i need to do to get it back in a perfect Drop D?

 

[DrKev]

So, it's a Floyd-type system that goes almost a half step sharp and the fine tuners don't bring it back? Something is not right with the guitar. Go back to your local tech and have him look at it.

If it's just a little sharp, I'd suggest the lock nut assembly might be loose (I don't mean the three little blocks that clamp the strings, I mean the entire nut assembly). It should be a very easy fix if that's what it is, though it might not be at all.

Good luck!

 

[Warg Master]

Backing off all of the fine tuners, then tuning the guitar slightly flat and THEN lock it and fine tune from flat to pitch from there. keep in mind with a floating trem the strings will all change their pitch slightly when you tune one string.

 

[Tollywood]

I agree that it's good to tune a little flat before locking at the nut.

When you tune a floating trem, you should tune the strings in the following order: the low E, the high E, the A, the B, the D, then the G.