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    sustain tips for PRS SE

    cheers. i got some nice distortion out of the tube amp too. thanks for all the input. PS: i got the trem to float again just to check. pretty good still!
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    sustain tips for PRS SE

    hey Duffy. to answer your post. i am inclined to go for 10s to 52s. i am now on 11s to 52s. i thought about this yesterday. as for the taping of the springs, the rattleling was what was a annoying me. but i guess with the trem dive only, it was not so bad. but there was this one note, the G...
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    sustain tips for PRS SE

    to answer your question. in a way i am comparing clean with clean. there are many little things i did. the ones that seem to have made most difference are: pick up swap, tremolo swap, and yesterday i also decided to make my bridge dive only. i did this just as a test but it made a big...
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    sustain tips for PRS SE

    New update with MannMade trem. Well, I think it is even better. Better feel and sustain overall. However, I also painted the guitar myself and with that I ran into a tiny problem that my nut would slide up about a milimitter. I tried gluing it but it was not until I properly glued it with strong...
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    sustain tips for PRS SE

    some updates after getting the guitar with new pickups set up (dimarzio's Illuminator Neck, Dominion bridge) - first impressions: significant difference - perhaps the sounds are already more appealing to me and think subjectively i am hearing less sustain issues - i lowered the neck pickup and...
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    sustain tips for PRS SE

    cheers. can try that too as I got an extra spring.
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    sustain tips for PRS SE

    thanks! will check the neck height too... i am looking forward to getting the bridge in but trying to hold my expectations.
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    sustain tips for PRS SE

    I am not sure expressed this well, but it is not 1 note for me, more a general feel with several notes though it seems the higher strings and 9-12th fret are a little worst.
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    sustain tips for PRS SE

    Hi there. Many thanks for the input. I am ordering a mannmade tremolo for the guitar. I think the swap from the stock trem will not 'hurt' the sound and potentially, as you said, will improove the overall sustain (I hope) and potentailly change the tone. In the end, I am wanting and willing to...
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    sustain tips for PRS SE

    :) awesome! thanks
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    sustain tips for PRS SE

    Hi there. Thanks for the tip and sharing! To clarify: do you mean lightly sticking a piece of tape around (like a changing the tape at the grip of a tennis racket for lack of a better analogy) on each spring? The issue now is not so much spring vibration (though I still hear this lots - maybe i...
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    sustain tips for PRS SE

    Hiya, there are main differences on some notes only, others seem to be fine (still less than the gibson or gretsch but I suspect i can expect that - however, even the gretsch improved significantly when i swapped the bridge) I should add that when the guitar was professionally set up, we spent...
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    sustain tips for PRS SE

    so, i finally got my first PRS, an SE custom 24 2016. i am slightly put off by the LACK of sustain compared to a gretsch 5120 (bigsby) and gibson (stop tail). i have had the frets levelled, changed nut to tusq, professional set up, and got 11s-52s strings on it. i hear the springs vibrating...
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    Tremol-No install Ques?

    cheers for the feedback on experience. i am thinking tremol-no is not the best option really. thinking abou a dive-only tremolo blocker alternative.
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    Custom 24 trem setup: flat to surface, tightened springs, dive-only. Okay?

    Wow. those seem like great options. I thought about just putting something between the trem and the body, as you have done. The trem stopper/FU systems seems like it would just do this. I can try what you did first and then add another spring to the trem and see how that goes - i am mostly...
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