https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/eb-tuning-locking-tremolo-system/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:46:41 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/eb-tuning-locking-tremolo-system/#post-336940 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:33:24 +0000
Thanks, I took pictures but the wife is bogarding the camera right now. Try and get them in monday, but I'm thinking I got the info I need.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Thundersloth https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/eb-tuning-locking-tremolo-system/#post-336940 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/eb-tuning-locking-tremolo-system/#post-336844 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:40:19 +0000
The pictures would help. Yet I wouldn't expect locking tuners on a Peavey unless somebody put on Sperzels or something like that.

And there's still the possibility of a locking bridge, without all the other bells and whistles - for example Fender uses them on some Deluxe Strats.

Once you have secured the strings into locking tuners, whether they are the popular Sperzels, or Grovers or Fender, which would be a little harder to fit on that guitar... you tune using the tuner's head or key (button) as normal , and you've just figured that out- but I think a pic would help, especially if you have 3 per side, and not the 6 in line.

So with this tuner, use the button, not the knob. The knob either securely locks or loosens the strings altogether - it is not a fine tuner.

]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Blue Jay https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/eb-tuning-locking-tremolo-system/#post-336844 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/eb-tuning-locking-tremolo-system/#post-336835 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:52:20 +0000
I'm not sure I follow what you're suggesting with the blocks at the nut. I don't see anything, just a normal nut where the strings are held at the neck. I don't know all my terms yet, so please bear with me ( I really need to get those pics up). I've heard so many different ways to tune this guitar that at this point I'm just confused. I tried just using the tuning keys last night and it actually stayed in tune and was still in tune this morning so that's a good sign. Anyway, I'm just trying to understand this system on my guitar. I will come back with pics so you can see exactly what I'm talking about.


*EDIT*
I just looked at pictures of a locking nut, and I definitely don't have one on my guitar. Maybe it's not locking, all I know is that on the back of the headstock, there are locking keys on the bottom of each tuning peg. I do believe it's a floating bridge. I'm so confused now!! :?]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Thundersloth https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/eb-tuning-locking-tremolo-system/#post-336835 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/eb-tuning-locking-tremolo-system/#post-336797 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:01:03 +0000
Also, if no success, remove the trem cover at the back, and tighten the claw with the springs on it; perhaps start with half a turn of the screws. Or add a spring if there's only 3? This will prevent your guitar from having it's tail down in that tuning and while playing, etc.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Blue Jay https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/eb-tuning-locking-tremolo-system/#post-336797 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/eb-tuning-locking-tremolo-system/#post-36898 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:41:53 +0000
When I tune the guitar, I loosen the tuner locks and then fine tune it by tightening the locks back. I seem to be losing tension in the strings right away. I can get it tuned to standard and keep it that way, but when I try to tune it down a half step I can't get the guitar to stay tuned. I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong, and how to keep these strings tuned. I wish it wasn't a locker because I'm used to playing my acoustic and I can tune that thing up and down with no problem.

Any help is very appreciated, I'll post pictures tomorrow when I can bring my camera in to work.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Thundersloth https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/eb-tuning-locking-tremolo-system/#post-36898