Suhr Bridge Comparison Gotoh 510 vs Gotoh Floyd

I'm team Gotoh 510

Who knew the bridge could affect the tone so much. Gotoh floyd sounded much better to my ears.

wooow cool

Wow, wasnt expecting such a difference. That floyd sounded much stronger

People want to see the whammy bar shit smh

Why would you purposely not tell us whether they hold tune well or not? I don't care what the tone is like if they aren't gonna be in tune in the first place. Come on guys, this channel has so much potential if you would just cover your bases. Common sense. Best of luck in the future.

The nuts...

He seems to have a lighter gauge of string on the red guitar, which probably accounts for the fact that the blue one sounds warmer and fuller. I really don't think there'd be much of a tone difference otherwise

Gotoh 510 !!!

The nut material will affect the tone, bone nut vs steel nut

The Gotoh Floyd is not up to quality par on my RB Koa Suhr. The locking nut wears out incredibly fast, I finally put a hardened Floyd original on there to combat the issue. Love the guitar hate the Gotoh trem system. I would not recommend non-original Floyd Rose systems to anyone (the originals Floyds are great) and Suhr should not even offer the Gotoh as an option.

Pull the damn whammy bar

Hahaha, cool guy

Hi, I hope someone answers. I am in need of help. I am looking to change the tremolo bridge on my guitar and I am looking to change it for a Gotoh 510 with steel block. My question is if this tremolo would fit my American Fender Stratocaster HSS series or if I would have to modify it to make it fit.

I have lost the torque adjustment screw for my GOTOH 510 tremelo. I don't know if it is the 510T or 510S but it is the tiny little screw that adjusts how much tension is on the tremelo arm. Can you please tell me where I can order a replacement?

I absolutely love my Gotoh 510 on my Suhr. It's: Tuning Stability is Phenomenal. oNe LovE from NYC.

Floyd rose way better- I have a Jackson with a Floyd and a Suhr with a Gotoh. The Gotoh sucks as you cannot do as good pull up or dive bombs as the Floyd.

id like to see a comparison on what moving the bars feels like and if the 510 has any slack when you pull it

Gotoh 510..I want six kilos

Floyd was the clear winner in my opinion.

My suhr with gotoh 510 feels pretty stiff and at the upper frets, its annoyingly bright. Metallic. And the arm feel is stiff and the pitch drop is very little and weird, well stiff and unresponsive. The arm is weirdly shorter and at a different higher angle than the gotoh floyd one. This makes the handling very uncomfortable in regular flush position, i had to adjust the spring and raise the trem a bit to make the arm closer to the body. Sure it has more bass than the floyd, like in this clip, but better is subjective. I think next I'll try to change the block to brass... And the tuning is all over the place to be honest. Im so hyped up to try suhr with a 510 but its rather disappointing. My hipshot is better (changed from a licensed 510 trem).

Thanks. Now I need both. When I played one, I found the 510 quite similar to the PRS trem system in its responsiveness. But, they ring different harmonics.

510 SOUNDS WAY MORE FULL AND NATURAL, THE FLOYD SOUNDS PRETTY PEAKY ...TOO MUCH ATTACK AND NOT BODY AND TAIL

In CLEAN TONES the 510 is WAY BETTER, the Floyd sounds Phasey, Hollow and nasty.thin. ....sounds like different pickups

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I'm a Floyd guy but the 510 sounds so much better imo.

what the F*&k kind of tremolo test is this , am I the only one going fucking crazy these days , FUCKKKKKKKKK!

Come on guys, everybody knows blue guitars will sound completely different than red guitars.

NOT A TEST WHITHOUT THE AGRESSIVE WHAMMY TESt!!!

what you did is completely crazy ! lol a video to compare 2 tremolos : you did no dive bombing, nothing lol ! no sustain comparison nothing ! how can we decide if a 510 is better than a floyd rose? we can't : 30 seconds wasted

All my life i thought Gotoh was pronounced Go-Tawh.. LOL. Oh well, have to update my brain.

Well, if you have a floyd equipped guitar and you don't like the tone difference, try to remove clamping blocks from the locking nut. The before/after difference will be just like in the video. I've tried this trick with 3 different guitars with same result. Strange, but it works

I know both of those Guitars sound better than this video indicates.

The clean tones from that Boogie sounded more like a Bandit.

The mesa boogie is not a great amp for spotting differences in tone between guitars.

I have a classic S with the floyd type and I´ve always noticed it had this dampening tone that does kill the sustain a bit, watching this demo I wish I ordered mine with the 510 which I have tried on a Suhr modern and does feel incredible.

I have both bridges - the 510 is astonishing in both tone and playability. With decent headphones, the Floyd sounds better in this video...not sure why.

That 510 sounds so much better than the Floyd that it isn't even funny.
Makes me sad because I love Floyds. Why can't someone from Floyd Rose make a new trem that doesn't sound cold and thin????? You know they could do it if they really wanted to............... Of course, that would mean new tooling.....

I think the Floyd'd guitar sounds better in these vids...fuller sounding.

great video. 510 is fuller sounding

One thing that drives me nuts with any floyd style guitar is that the bar gets loose within the arm socket it's in and rattles after you use it heavily a few times. With the gotoh floyd rose did you notice that happening? 

Really cool video. Thanks for taking the time out to make this!

great comparison! could you tell which spacement (50 or 53 mm) the bridge pickup has on the 510-equipped guitar? Tks!

very great review, thanks for the video!

Both the Floyd and the 510 use 53 mm (F-spaced) pickups? Tks!

HI, i don't know if you can help me with this but I bought a Suhr with the floyd type and I would like to change it for the 510 cuz I think it's brilliant and for some reason the cavity isn't large enough so it just goes down but can't go up... I already have another guitar with a floyd rose so I don't need this one to go up crazy but would be nice to have it go up just a bit so I'm looking for something smaller that will fit the cavity better but I don't know which model is compatible..

the only real way to judge is by gettin' rid of the nut-lock on the floyd...

what's missing in the floyd's tone is FAR less than what the gotoh is lacking. the latter's cleans sound dull, hardly what i'd call "warm;" i'd be curious as to whether it has the gotoh block, or the stainless steel one. it lacks definition & sustain with dirt. my main complaint with the floyd is that it sounds a bit too clacky, & it's cleans lack a little body. but with the floyd, you can always roll back the tone pot; with the gotoh, you're stuck. the floyd also has more volume & sustain...