Help - guitar intonation

[Alpinestarhero]

Hey guys. I'm wondering if any of you are very clued up about guitar setups. I was reading through a mates guitar book the toher day about setting the intonation to get the best sound; in the book, it used a fender stratocaster as the example guitar for explaining intonation. I thought "great, I'll do this on my jackson, it'll sound really good then"

Now, i look at my jackson, and it has a floyd rose tremolo system on it, so I cn only raise the height of either side of the trem block. How do I do about raising and lowering each string individually to set the intonation? Anyone done this with a floyd rose before?

Matt

[Wideboy]

no buy a strat :)

[SoulKiss]

Or a Gibson self-tuning robot guitar !!!!

http://www.gibson.com/RobotGuitar/guitar.html

[catdog]

Raising or lowering the height of the strings doesn't affect the intonation, just the playability. Obviously, the lower the height of the strings, the less work your fingers have to do to press them onto the fretboard.

The intonation is adjusted by altering the actual 'playable' length of the string. I'm not too sure about how a floyd rose works, but you should find that each saddle can be adjusted a small distance forwards and backwards. On a traditional strat bridge, you do this by turning the 6 screws along the back edge of the trem plate. You might find that on your trem each saddle is locked in place by a small screw on top, which will need loosening before you can slide them back and forwards.

But, you may not need to adjust the intonantion anyway. To check, you need to play a harmonic at the twelfth fret, and then play the actual fretted note. If the fretted note is sharper or flatter than the harmonic, then you'll want to adjust the intonation, until the two notes are the same.

[dizzyblonde]

http://www.fretnotguitarrepair.com/Electric_Guitar_Bridge_Saddle.htm
have a looksi here...too complicated to put without dizzyspeak...lol

[Zombie Jesus]

Raising the height controls the action on my les paul which sounds the same as yours with two screws controlling height on eith side of the saddles. On my strat I can indivdually set the saddle height on each string. Inotation is done on both of my mine by tuning on open string then on 12th fret and altering the saddle depth, moving it back and forth until the postion converges on a correct tuning for both open/12th.

Don't know how helpful this is as I've never used a floyd rose. There should be a flathead screw on the back of the saddle for each each string to control depth.