New Ibanez S320 with ZR bridge

[-Rhaab]

Nice guitar btw
After having it for a while tuning will be much easier, if you change all your strings do it one at a time. And another helpful tip that has been good to me is when tuning it, skip a string every string you tune. Eg, tune the low E, then D, then B, then high E, G, A and repeat.
And when I change my strings on my S470 I always tune the low strings EAD about 1/4 down cause they sharpen when you tighten the locking nut.

[Metalartin]

Oh I should have said I did find out where I was going wrong, I was told by that guitar shop owner not to touch the tuners at the head but to use the fine tuners(the manual added to it by stating 3 loops around the post for each string)... he didnt set it up properly Im not taking it back there.

What I did was level the bridge by adjusting the spring tension, but before you do that you DO have to unlock the nut and tune from the standard tuners with the bridge blocked... I was tuning from the fine tuners in this way. So it was pretty easy once I found that out, I also did it pretty fast having used them fine tuners so extensively lol.

Ive just adjusted my truss rod too, how do you measure 0.3 mm? thats gonna take some very good eyesight, well from what I could see he didnt do that either, I estimated it(just what looked like just under half a mm) by looking at the 9th and 7th frets.

Intonation Ive tried to do but for some reason the D string is sharp and I literally cant move the saddle back any further without it coming totally loose. It will have to do for the meantime I suppose but I will send it for a setup with another guy(it will probably be worth the extra distance and cost) when I get some new pick-ups hopefully he will do it all as part of the set-up for me.

By the way I do have a new amp I bought the Vox Valvetronix AD15VT-XL along with it, I was thinking swapping out the infinities would round things off nicely, perhaps I will beable to find sound samples like the Dimarzio thread hear for each of the other brands. Id like to hear these UK-hand woven bare knuckle pickups I dont think I have heard any of them at all yet.

edit: Ive just noticed a new problem, the sockets you adjust the action with, with the allen key... on the treble side seems to have started slipping when I try and turn the key like its started to wear, is it possible to replace that part? What is the part called and would they send it out to me as part of my warrenty? Ive managed to find a slightly bigger allen key than the one supplied but something tells me even using that will not last, since its started to wear so early.

[Metalartin]

Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing the intonation of the D string to be further out than all the other strings?

[LonePhantom]

It's not adjusted correctly, you need to adjust the intonation on all strings by moving the saddles back or forth, depending on the tune of it.

[Metalartin]

Im in the process of adjusting it only no matter how far back I put the saddle it seems off(too sharp) I was hoping someone had come accross this before, Ive even switched the the bolt position to the second hole(furthest back) and its still not quite right.

[LonePhantom]

May be that the trem wasn't quite installed in the right position on the body? Maybe you should be taking the guitar back and swapping it over for another one.

[Metalartin]

Ok the grove for the allen key on one of my stud bolts has warn now, what should I do? Do they send out parts for you where you bought it from in some cases, under your warrenty? If not where is the best place to buy stud bolts from? I may aswell get some intonation bolts too while Im at it from what Ive heard of them. Are the ZR bolts the same ones used on the other Floyd Rose trems or different?

LonePhantom I should hope not... besides wouldnt the other strings have the same problem if that were the case?

[LonePhantom]

Not necessarily, as you might still have enough space to adjust them correctly with the trem being installed a little out of place.

[losgatosrg350dx]

1. i noticed on ur first close up pic of the trem, the intonation screws are all the way down, this is a no no

it has to be half way on each one

this huge raised sections are all causing your actual harmonics not to be good, you have to reset this, bring it down, and start all ur intonation again and again, after tightening the back springs and the maybe adjusting the neck

also it makes ur notes shift while playing, some will be higher than others

another thing, for 7 strings im a huge fan of duncan distortion for the bridge and duncan jb in the neck.....you can wire this to a push pull pot, both always running humuckers, no coil tap instead have one side going to a "tone" pot but with black ice....very cool wiht the duncan pickups!!!!!


if u need help go ahead and ,mssg me ive done tons of those zr bridges

[Metalartin]

i noticed on ur first close up pic of the trem, the intonation screws are all the way down, this is a no no

it has to be half way on each one

Huh? wouldnt that mean the saddle will slip? It looks to me as all it does is pin down the saddle to prevent that, what do you mean by half way?.

[losgatosrg350dx]

the fine tuners...see how they are all the way screwed, the threads should be even on all sides up and down

[Metalartin]

Ah ok well they are not screwed in very far there if thats what you mean, since then Ive changed that(closer to the middle) but still had problems with the intonation on the D string when I moved onto that part.

[losgatosrg350dx]

good i wana gunna say thats a big part


if anything u might have to replace a saddle, maybe its worn???

[Metalartin]

Hmmm you know what maybe I should send it for a set up(not going back to that first guy, maybe Im cynical but he told me "you wont get it any better than that" despite me noticing obvious things like the spring tension was unaltered and before I left he suggested I come back and he'd "show me how to tune and do a basic setup" on HIS guitars... If you see where Im going with that), I wanted to wait a while so I could get my pickups done with it but it would be good just for peice of mind to make sure theres nothing wrong with it.

Maybe I could get some pickups for a good price sooner than I was planning aswell.

[losgatosrg350dx]

where u located ill do it for free