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The Hipshot Tremsetter greatly improves guitar performance by stabilizing your tremolo. It automatically returns your full-floating tremolo to its exact "zero" neutral position, eliminating flutter and sag, so your guitar remains in tune.
With the Tremsetter you can bend strings, play bridge harmonics, aggressive rhythm parts or mute strings, and the bridge remains stable.
Best of all, the Tremsetter is total retro-fit. No need to chop up your vintage axe, just install it and play!
The Tremsetter installs on your tremolo guitar in the back cavity where the springs are. When you put the cover plate back on your guitar you will never even know the Tremsetter is there doing it's job. The Tremsetter automatically brings your guitar back to its "zero" or starting position.
Ordinarily, your tremolo relies on string tension pulling against the springs in the back of your guitar. It's a delicate balance similar to the way a teeter totter works. If one side is just a little out of balance, your guitar will be out of tune. The Tremsetter overrides this precarious balancing situation and brings your tremolo back to the exact "in-tune" position.
You can still push down and pull back on the tremolo to raise and lower my stings. The Tremsetter works very similarly to a double hinged door; i.e., the door can swing both ways, but comes to rest in the center position. When you let go or your tremolo arm after you have raised or lowered your strings, the Tremsetter automatically returns your tremolo to it's "zero" position.
The Tremsetter works on Floyd Rose equipped guitars, and will work on just about any style of fulcrum tremolo including Fender, Wilkinson, Kahler, and Ibanez.
The Tremsetter stabilizes your tremolo and eliminates annoying flutter. The flutter or warbling sound is really your string energy being absorbed by your tremolo springs. The Tremsetter lightly holds your tremolo in position so that your string's energy goes through your pickups and out your amp, not into your tremolo springs. You should immediately hear a dramatic improvement in your guitar's attack, volume, and sustain.
The Tremsetter stabilizes your tremolo to minimize "tremolo sag". "Tremolo sag" is what you experience when you bend a string, increasing the string pressure causing your tremolo to rock or sag forward. This puts your adjacent strings out of tune. This is especially annoying when you are trying to play country or blues style double stop bends. Also, when your tremolo sags forward, you have to bend farther to raise the pitch of your strings.
With Tremsetter, you will immediately notice that your strings feel tighter and less rubbery. The string tension of a tremolo guitar in large part is determined by the tremolo springs located in the back of the guitar. When you bend your strings what you are really feeling are the springs stretching out. Once the Tremsetter is installed, your tremolo will be stabilized and you will feel the true string tension. The Tremsetter will give you all the advantages of a fixed bridge guitar while maintaining the versatility of a full floating tremolo instrument.
Hipshot Tremsetter 401000 Tremolo Stabilizer Features:
- Eliminates tremolo flutter and sag
- Completely invisible once installed
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Hipshot Tremsetter 401000 Tremolo Stabilizer
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a professional piece of equipment
Posted by paradisexs from honolulu hawaii on Oct 1, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: active musician
Reviewer's Play Style: rock, blues, funk
I got my first tremsetter by accident. A friend of mine worked at a music store and for 30 yrs, I was a gibson player but I came to appreciate David Gilmore's style of playing and tone so I decided to get a strat to emulate his tonal qualities. The strat came with locking tuner heads, lsr roller nut, gold lace pickups and a tremsetter under the hood. I've had friends who had horror stories of their strats staying in tune especially if play hard but to my surprise, my strat stayed in perfect tune even if it sat in the case for months. Now it's my main axe and three of my Carvins with wilkenson trems have it as well as my Ibenez. It is easier to bend strings with less effort and it does everything it is suppose to do. I use my whammy bar quite a bit and even if I break a string, I can change the string out in less than 5 minutes and retune and ready to go unlike locking systems which is time consuming. I carry two guitars to my gigs so when I have the time to change the string in between sets, it's a snap. Worth the price, worth putting it your guitar.
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It works!
Posted by Don from Massachusetts on Jun 7, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Almost good
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock
I installed a tremsetter on my Ibanez, along with a d-tuna. I'm able to switch instantly from standard tuning to dropped D (with the d-tuna), and the other strings stay perfectly in tune! It's a bit of a tricky install and setup, but if you're patient, you'll be rewarded. I needed to adjust the tremsetter to a fairly stiff setting in order to have everything stable enough to handle the tuning changes, but it's worth it. The trem is still "full floating" which means I can still push down, and pull up, or use it for vibrato (unlike blocked trems). My trem returns to perfect pitch every time now, which it never did before. It changes the feel of the trem, but I got used to it right away (it doesn't change the amount of pitch difference you get compared to the amount the arm moves, after all). String bends are a little different too, requiring less bend, because you're no compensating for the springs on the trem as much. I think my sustain improved also, due to the more positive conection between the bridge and the guitar body.
If you have any issues, watch the installation and setup vid on youtube, or take it to a pro for installation. If you can't get it to work, don't blame the product. I promise, this item works. If it can handle my two tunings, I'm 100% positive it can handle anything you can throw at it.
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Great bang for your buck - follow the directions!
Posted by Dan B from Halifax, Canada on Apr 24, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock
For the price you can't go wrong as long as you take your time, have patience and watch the installation video from HipShot. It's not really difficult to install as long as you go slow and follow the directions accurately. Be extremely careful with the brass rod and the tightening screw - it WILL break! Once installed and setup correctly it's almost flawless - I dive bomb and whammy up like a maniac and it stays 99% in tune. Normal whammy use it will stay 100% in tune (as long as your strings are stretched properly first). I highly recommend this product.
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Tremsetter Fan
Posted by n.c._dave from Crouse, North Carolina on Nov 17, 2008
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock,Clasic Rock, Gospel
I bought an inexpensive Ibanez GSA 60 to practice on and it would not stay in tune for very long. So I started looking for a solution and came across the Tremsetter. It took many adjustments, watching the video at the Hipshot site many times, and some trial and error, but it finally came together. Once I got it set up correctly, my Ibanez stays in tune now and I can change strings with no additional adjustments. The one thing I have to watch is after doing a dive bomb, I have to pull Trem bar back a little to the stopping point on the Tremsetter to put back into correct tune, which is no big deal to me because, I know it will be in tune. To me it was worth installing because it solved my tuning problems. The only caution I can give is to have a lot of patience when installing.
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What a waste of money
Posted by Dolan E. G. from Orlando, Fl. on Oct 20, 2008
Experience w/product: I have heard about it
Reviewer's Background: 10 years playing guitar
Reviewer's Play Style: Progressive Metal
Unfortunately it is true when they say you won't have to worry about tuning problems when using the whammy bar, because you will already have enough tuning nightmares to even think of using the bar and having to parctically set up the whole guitar again
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