Hey there Andy,
I have a problem with the high E on my Floyd. No matter where I am on the neck, including not fretted at all, that one string has this ice pick pinging sound to it. I have All Parts Floyd saddle shims, so I tried that, but it didn't really help. I even tried going from a .010 high E to a .011, but that didn't help either! I'm playing at standard tuning, by the way. Finally, I figured it's got to be the saddle itself that's acting so nastily, so I just grabbed the first thing I thought of that I already own to try to fix it, and I put a Big Bends String Sleeve on the part of the high E that goes over the saddle, and that did it! I cut down the String Sleeve pretty significantly to do that. Anyway, that confirms there's something in the saddle making my high E sound shitty and harsh, but the problem is it's causing a side effect, not suprisingly, a lack of sustain. Of course these String Savers aren't designed actually to sit on your saddle, but, like I said, that was just the first thing I thought of.
Is there a good effective way to get rid of the ice picky pick attack on that high E coming from the saddle? To give a good example, a test riff I like to play is the famous main riff from Long Train Runnin' by The Doobie Brothers, where you're just barring strings 1 through 5 on the 10th fret and hammering onto the 11th on the B and 12th on the D string; when I play that riff, where I like to strum aggressively, the high E pick attack will just take the back of your head off.
I'm considering maybe just trying to swap the low and high E saddles, since that would keep the right radius. I even looked to see if you could buy individual String Saver Floyd saddles by GraphTech, but it looks like they only sell them in the sets. But is there any other approach you'd take? Thanks in advance as always!
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