2
This sound is the spring-loaded sliding latch snapping
into place. If you don’t hear or feel the snap, push the
sliding latch toward the saddle until it catches. Making
sure the sliding latch is all the way forward to its
locked position is important because if it isn’t,
two things will happenÚ
1) The replaced string will be held sharp, and
2) The safety catch will not be engaged, so the
string could suddenly and unexpectedly be released
and fly across the room.
3
Now that the new string has been properly installed
you should seat it. To seat the new string, press
down firmly on the string just in front of the saddle
and just in front of the nut.
4
Then do a couple of stretching pulls on the string.
5
The string is now seated and no more stretching
is necessary; just play. In fact, if you stretch the
string too vigorously, you will damage the string.
Just play the string in for a bit and re-adjust your
tuning with the fine-tuning screw as needed.
If the string you’re replacing was tuned to your
desired pitch, the new string you install should be
able to be tuned to that pitch with the fine tuner
screw. If the fine tuners do not have enough range
to tune the new string to the previous pitch you
will need to adjust the range tuner setscrew as
described below. See: “Setting the fine tuner range
on the SpeedLoader Tremolo.”