Stringsaver saddles (Graph tech)

[Mattias Svensson]

I thinking of installing ghost saddles for piezo in my new warmoth strat. There seems to be very different opinions about the stringsaver-saddles. some adore them and some hate them. I guess that depends if you really like the top end treble or not? What's your thaughts?
graph tech also have the classict with solid steel and the stringsaver-material only under the string, why don't they make ghost saddles like that?
I myself isn't that big of a fan of treble, but I do play a lot clean sounds and thats where the most different in sound is if i understand correct? but iI guess I have to try them as there isn't much of i choice  if I want piezo-saddles?

 

[AutoBat]

I have the non-peizo all black string savers on my strat and overall really haven't noticed any change in the tonal characteristics since changing them in early January.

 

[Mattias Svensson]

That is good, they really seem to divide people into they who love them and some who really hates them. I just don't know why people hate them, I mean tone is subjective and less treble for me wouldn't be a bad thing. Anyone else got something to say about this?

 

[tangent]

I have a strat with graphtech ghost system.. there isn't really much of a difference in my opinion, but I guess it would depend on what kind of bridge and what kind of saddles you had before.  Another thing is what kind of tremolo setup you use, ie locking trem, floating, blocked.. the saddles do have more slip to them since there is teflon there, so it changes the feel of using the trem on my setup (wilkinson)

I also have some acoustic guitars with graphtech TUSQ nut, saddle and bridge pins.  In that case there is more noticable difference and I like the graphtech better than real bone nut or corian. 

I use brass nut and pins on one of my acoustics also, now those make a very big difference in the sound.. much brighter than other setups.  Depending on the guitar and what kind of sound you are trying to get, it could sound great or could sound awful with brass.. with the graphtech stuff though I think it would sound good on pretty much any guitar.

 

[Wyliee]

I recently replaced a set of cheap pot metal saddles in a customer's guitar with the String Saver saddles.  (Not a Warmoth customer, my own side business.)  Much smoother frequency response.  Got rid of the nasty pinging sound and cleaned up the upper register.  No complaints here.

 

[Mattias Svensson]

I'm awaiting a strat from warmoth. 1-piece alter body and rosewood fingerboard on maple neck, graph tech xl nut. I'm going for a american standard tremolo. I will change the block for a callaham steel. I probably go for kinman woodstock pickups.
As you can se pretty warm sounding options. I will also put a ghost piezo system, I just hope the saddles will make the guitar sound to non-trevle so it get to warm, all dough I like warm natural sound over the sparkle treble vintage sound that can be to much for me..

 

[JaySwear]

i made it a point to put string saver saddles on my two guitars a while back. one of them was sold, and now i only have string savers on my telecaster deluxe. love them! love the look, love the feel (MUCH easier on the picking hand than bent steel saddles with their awful heigh adjustment screws), and i swear i thought i noticed a sustain boost. that last part might be me making it up in my head, i didn't record an A/B test before i installed them so i may never know. they do seem to cut down on harsh highs in your tone too. the deluxe can still cut through with the best of them, but it has plenty of useable highs now instead of the harshness it had before (with Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge).

 

[Firebird211]

I was thinking about getting some of these on a TOM.  One of my metal saddles is cross threaded and won't move enough to completely intonate G.  I'm sure it will help sustain and keep the strings in tune as good as the Graphtech nuts I have tried, with the help of locking tuners, of course.  The black will fit with the color scheme of the guitar anyways.  There's always some guitar thing I need.  It never ends :laughing7:

 

[Mattias Svensson]

I emailed graph tech and got the answer that they actually have tested doing a ghost saddle in metal like their classics but that "There was a wolf tone at the resonant frequency of the metal saddle that we didn’t succeed in getting rid of". It make sense that metal isn't gonna help the piezo sound.