Electric guitarists, I need your help!

[jackthehack]

Unless the title of your dissertation is " How To Troll A Thousand Different Wrong-Headed Beliefs From Guitarists", I fail to see any academic value here...

 

[Cagey]

Says it's a dissertation topic. Doesn't say which field it's for. Hints at music, but doesn't specify it. So, it may be for a psychology degree. Wants to see how fights develop out of thin air between members of random groups with common interests.

 

[Great Ape]

Says it's a dissertation topic. Doesn't say which field it's for. Hints at music, but doesn't specify it. So, it may be for a psychology degree. Wants to see how fights develop out of thin air between members of random groups with common interests.

:laughing7: :toothy10: :laughing7:

 

[Ace Flibble]

They still float whether recessed or non-recessed. It's a matter of how you setup the guitar. Strat bridges can float if you want, too, but that doesn't mean it's common practice for people to do it. Most people don't float their Strat bridges, and though many like flat top setups with Floyds, it's most popular to have a full floating setup.

Those words don't mean what you think they mean, and you appear to be implying whatever preferences you have to the guitar-playing masses as a whole, which is just poor practice.

This is precisely why there's such a problem of misinformation and hearsay within the community. People recommending pickups that they've never actually used for guitars they've never used. People telling you how to set up a bridge they have no experience with. People saying an amp sucks; an amp that they have never used. People calling vibratos tremolos, splits taps, spewing terms like 'floating' and 'stability' without fully understanding what those terms refer to and, more importantly, what they don't refer to.

Hell, OP's survey is a perfect example. There's a million and one things which dictate sustain, not just construction and bridge type, but hey, people on forums talk a lot of shit without bothering to understand the subject, so we get this myth that a particular construction style always results in a particular sound regardless of any other factors, or that a type of pickup can only do one specific tone, or whatever else.

Case in point: non-recessed double-locking vibratos are not set up to float. Doing so is quite dangerous because the bridge was not designed to work that way. Any time the bridge returns to pitch there's a risk of ripping the bridge out of the body. Hence they are always used 'decked', not 'floating', unless you're a gigantic moron.
Strat-style bridges, on the other hand, were designed to always be used 'floating'. Always, from the ground up. Using those 'decked' is a preference of the user but is not how the unit was designed to be, nor is it how manufacturers advise you use it.
Therefore, to restrict the term 'floating' only to recessed double-locking bridges—and by extention of that, implying that a Strat bridge is never used 'floating' and that double-locking bridges are never used 'decked'—is inaccurate, careless, irresponsible and only helps to promote the tidal wave of misinformation that floods music forums.

 

[Magicbisket]

Done,

Nice survey, and good luck

-D. T. Latty