Tremolo

[tarsai]

hi
i am playing an acoustic for about an year and I want to graduate to an electric.I listen mostly to floyd and deep purple.So I decided to get a Fender strat with 3 single coils.I dont have too much to shell.Will a squier do.I saw my dream strat (squier) for abt $300 but nothing is mentioned about the tremolo.My friend recently got an electric and he said that his axe has a two way tremolo.What does that mean.I think this is my only elec. and I cant think of getting a better one later.What should I look out for.
A Confused Tarsai.

[The Fury]

I think a squire is fine. I have one and it feels really nice, it's just that the pickups aren't all they could/should be. As for the tremolo, a two way tremolo allows you to bend notes up as well as bend them down with the bar. The tremolo on Squire strats are only a one way tremolo. You will be able to bend the notes down but not up. Two way (or Floyd Rose) tremolo's are much more difficult to tune. Maybe someone who has a Floyd Rose could explain this better than me.

[Levinson Blade]

Yep the Squire is a fine guitar for the price I think the Affinity is the better option from Squire but like all guitars play it first and see if you like the feel no 2 guitars feel the same and there are good and bad in every brand

[flexistential]

IMHO, be careful of rushing in to a "floyd rose" or "two way" trem...

my first electric guitar had a floyd rose bridge and i learned to hate it...
WHY...? your whole bridge, and hence every string is literally balanced on a knife edge, hence every slight adjustment to any one string has an equal and opposite effect on every other string, proportionately speaking. Therefore on a cheaper instrument like a squire where the hardware may be lacking slightly on the quality dept. even the most minor tuning adjustment on one string will throw the others out a lot... (assuming you can find a floyd rose equipped squire)

make no mistake, if fancy steve vai style trem bends and flutters (both lowering and raising the pitch of your notes) are indispensable to your style of play, or what you would like to learn how to play... then a "full floating" floyd rose style bridge is what you want... if not, trust me you won't regret your regular fixed bridge or single way trem bridge one little bit...

hope this is of some use...

flexistential

[Levinson Blade]

Yes I have said in other posts that I prefer a hardtail (Fixed Bridge) Guitar but each to there own

[Krieselman13]

I HATE my tem, unless I can actually come up with something useful with it, which isnt that often.

[nabby]

I will go to my grave saying this....DO NOT EVER BUY A SQUIRE ANYTHING!!!!!! They are cheap. yes they are lower in price, but that comes with the fact that they are also lower in quality. Don't do it!

[Levinson Blade]

Many young and old guitar players start out with a Squire and I think I would rather have a Squire than something like an Encore The squire brand is aimed at the new guitarist or those on a budget I think Fender did a great job in countering all the cheap nasty strat copys But yes you can come across a bad Squire but that is true of all guitars there are some lemmons out there that may carry the brand of Gibson / Fender on the head stock

[Krieselman13]

The guitars themselves arent THAT bad. Its the pickups that are bad. But try out Carvin, or maybe even an Ibanez, they have one for around $150, $160ish.