Hi,
I red your question about tremolo, and it's very interesting. I play guitar since 46 years, and I have two ARIA excellent models the first is an ARIA RS SPIRIT and with tremolo ACT 5 with knives and studs, it's floating, it's nearly less boaring than a Floyd Rose. The second one is ARIA Stage III KPI with a kahler flyer tremolo.
The two tremolos are different cose they are not made for the same kind of music. The first is floating but can't stay in tune if you play by pushing / pulling the tremolo, cose only own a lock nut, but not on the bridge !!!
The second one the flyer does n't have a hole in the body. The tremolo stay in tune a long time cose the strings can roll into pieces and are never blocked !!!!!
The SPIRIT one have 3 springs but it depends on the length, the strongness and quality of metal.
If you remove one spring, retune the guitar and just listen to the sounds comportment, it you don't like either the sound or the softness of the tremolo, you can try to put a 3rd spring that could be less strong and could fit with the tune will what you are waiting for but the guitar will stay in tune and the tremolo a little bit harder.
One thing, don't buy bad springa on the net form China, they are lower than what you must put on your guitar, choose USA JAPAN or EUROPEAN ones, for instance tremolos manufacturer for FLOYD ROSE is GERMANY which have a metal which as enough quality for the hardness and utility and quality of sound and stay in tune, and sustain too.
Never forget, every time, you add or remove one spring, unlock the screws of the nut, and retune the strings, re-lock the screws and see if the tune is for what you expect. If it's not the case, put a 3rd spring and buy it, in a guitar shop seller, you know, generally they know different springs for types of guitars.
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