How do you tune a guitar with a floyd rose? (I took all of the strings off at the same time)?

Question

Nobody told me not to take all of the strings off at once.. I didn't learn until after that it was the second biggest mistake I made in my guitar playing life (runner up to actually buying the guitar with the floyd).

I understand the concept of when you tune the first string and then the next the first string goes flat, so i tune up and up.. and than the floyd is way too high and brings the strings way off of the fretboard.

I tried tightening the springs on the back of the guitar under where you s***w out the plastic cover, but it doesn't seem to help much.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

you will have to do it over and over. tune the strings using only the headstock pegs and leave it for a day. once the strings are in the ballpark the tension will settle down.  then you can tune it in more accurately.

leave the springs where they are.

Answer 2

I don't understand what you mean when you say the floyd is way too high.

Loosen all your strings gradually. The neck should bow up a little. Then gradually tighten the strings all together a little at a time until you get close to tuning pitch. Then tune it with a tuner or piano or something that will allow you to tune to the correct pitch. It sounds like you have heavy strings and are tuning them way too high causing the neck to bow downward. If the neck needs adjusting and you are not sure what you're doing don't mess with it. Take it to a guitar store. It's cheap. Good luck.

Answer 3

First: if your FR start to lift up one of possible reasons is too much loosen springs, correct it, but not too much as then it would be very hard to move whammy. Put some hard object bellow screws (as fulcrum) for fine tuning to suppress FR to sink down when you take out all strings. Remember, never replace all strings at once, just one by one!

Second: tuning strings on axe with FR is long lasting process that is repeating few time; the best way is to tune low E, then high E, then go B, A, G and  D. As you tune strings you'll notice that other string loose tune (intonation). After each pair of tuned string, get back and de-tune first string from pair in order to decrease accumulation of de-tuning after all 6 strings are tuned. Now, you could remove mentioned object that you used as fulcrum bellow fine-tuning screws. Then repeat tuning on this way, from outsides strings to string in middle until you got near good tune. Use then fine screws on back side of FR. And that's all.

Note: if your FR is rising too much (it must be parallel with body of axe) during tuning, use allen (hex key) wrench and tight a little two allen-s***w in front of FR; it will force a little FR down, but it must be done before strings get working tension or they could break up.