Best tremolo bridge - what to look for..

What design features are key to making the worlds best tremolo?  This article examines what to look for as a musician trying to get the most out of his or her guitar.

TONE.  This is the holy grail of any instrument including modern electric guitars.  All trems except for the BladeRunner use a "metal-on-metal" pivot set-up.  The small contact points choke off the tonal transfer from strings to the bridgeplate and ultimately into the body.  This results in a thin, weak sound transfer and cuts off certain frequencies that simply cant get through.  Your average tremolo typically uses a few inexpensive wood screws - resulting in the worst possible outcome.  Some replaced the screws with a machined groove but the end result is the same.  To counteract this, many players waste hard earned dollars on different saddles, springs, sustain blocks, etc. all in an effort to correct this fundamental design flaw.  Some players just give up in frustration and end up blocking the trem to the body. 

In contrast, the BladeRunner uses a patented flexible flat spring, creating a direct tonal pathway from the bridge into the body.  Like a free flowing water hose, this "tone conduit" extracts the full potential from your guitar.  The BladeRunner makes an average guitar sound great and a great guitar sound incredible.  Very musical sounding, all frequencies are boosted  equally making the guitar sound louder unamplified.  The superior SuperVee design provides vibrato effect yet still sounds as good as a hardtail bridge.

TUNING STABILITY.  Friction is the enemy of tuning stability.  Friction generated using the "metal-on-metal" pivot scheme creates a ton of issues for most tremolo players.  Think of it as grinding metal on metal and how this might prevent the bridge from retuning back to zero.  The metal pivots wear out and get gummed up over time creating even more issues.  Let's face it, if you are not in tune then your guitar just sounds bad.  The fix?  The SuperVee design is the only truly "frictionless" pivot on the market today.  Always comes back to zero and it never wears out.  In fact we guarantee our bridge pivot for as long as you own it!  Not only great tone transfer but great tuning stability too.

SUSTAIN.  We are all chasing sustain in our guitars.  No such thing as too much sustain.  Pluck a note and we want that to ring forever.  That said, a typical bridge uses cast zinc sustain block with a poor connection to the bridge plate.  SuperVee tone blocks are all machined from solid billet metal and to exact tolerances.  The blocks fit with no air gaps between the black and the bridge plate allowing the resonance to transfer freely.   Weather you prefer and lightweight block, carbon steel or bell brass, SuperVee sustain blocks offer all the sustain you'll ever need.

No routing, no modifications, no drilling - just direct direct drop-in bridge that sounds great and plays great.