Quick Damping Extraneous Noise Tip

Remember: noise always builds up

Patrick Martin
Axes Xplained
1 min readMay 16, 2023

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If you listen closely, there is all sorts of rattling and clunking going on, and not all of that is the fumbling happening on the fretboard ;).

Guitars with tremolos most often have springs and these springs are free to ring. And they do, and often it’s not a sound you want.

Random noise always builds up, so the more this occurs for every instrument, the more your music becomes junk + some musical notes.

If you don’t want this — the fixes are very simple.
Here’s two fixes for ringing tremolo springs and the strings on the headstock.

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Patrick Martin
Axes Xplained

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