GraphTech Saddles for My Strat - Is It Worth It???
GraphTech Saddles for My Strat - Is It Worth It???
i'd say it is well worth it imperium.
my best friend put some on his jimmie vaughan strat and his strings almost never break at the bridge, the strings last longer overall, and the tone improved somewhat as well.
as far as the whole annoying when palm muting thing, I dont get.
i'd highly reccommend them.
I don't have graphite anything on any of my guitars, and my strings never break anywhere (including the bridge). 8o
You're also using bridge cables for strings aren't ya? :p That might contribute to why they never break. ;)
I put some graph-tech saddles on one of my tunamatic bridges a couple of years ago to check 'em out. They definitely did prolong string life, but I did not like how they alter the feel of the strings under your hand. It's hard to explain, but to me it felt/sounded like the strings were more muffled and less bright/responsive.
I'd found myself altering my picking technique to make up for the lack of attack. I eventually switched them back to steel saddles and just make sure that there are no burrs every so often.
11-58 on 27" scale is pretty high tension, and I pick literally as hard as I can with Jazz III's. I'd think those two factors would at the very least contradict the strength of bigger strings. Even when I used 10-46, I never really had breakage problems. The 10's broke when they got old and rusty, while my current 11's don't, but I don't really count that as breakage problems...that was caused by laziness :lol
^^^ Some one got what i was meaning.
Its not because of string breakage, its because of the fact i just cant adiquatly palm mute the notes on the trem of my Strat the same way i can on my EC-1K. Its because of the screws being "in the way" and hindering the palm mute.
If its the height adjustment screws that are the issue then different saddles wont solve it. The screws will be in the same positions when you change the saddles.
What do you mean annoying? And what exactly do you want sorted out?