Four string Bass

*The 5 hole pattern is universal among 4 string basses.  My hardware will fit all of them that have a standard bolt down, 1 piece bridge.

This excludes all 2 piece bridges, a la Warwick.

Five string-

*Once you go to 5 string, there is no standard hole pattern on the bridge.  They are all over the place.  With my 5 string bridge, 2 or 3 holes will line up with most hole patterns.  Also excludes 2 piece bridges.

 The Electric Guitar-

My Gold Crowns were designed specifically for Strat type instruments, to which there are many iterations.  There are lots of variations on these guitars but my crowns are almost universal.

If you guitar has 6 individual saddles in a straight line, they will work very well.  This INCLUDES any “6 screw” or “2 point tremolo”.

  There are exclusions.

Floyd Rose- not yet.

Two piece bridges- Les Paul, etc..- also not yet.

Telecaster- They require a different set up.- not yet.

Squire-

They do all of their dimensions differently.  Squire works really, really well, but they will require a neck shim.

Starting in 2025, I will be offering Gold Crowns in Stainless
Hardened steel (for you of the “Bakersfield sound”)

*and probably black.

My products focus on the signal, at the SOURCE.  Meaning everything after that is simply “more”.  Regardless of what your signal chain looks like, what is feeding it, or how you play it.  It doesn’t matter what amp, (I prefer tubes) it doesn’t matter what pedal.  Since the vibration is perfected, everything else will reflect this.  Your guitar is now louder and cleaner,(until you hit the distortion pedal), and you will hear new things from your own fingers, AND new things from your amplifier.

Absolutely!

  Everyone loves a tremolo, NOBODY likes trying to keep them in tune!  There is an entire industry built around trying to make these systems better.

Although there are many options available, no one, until now has addressed why they yield substandard performance at best, and fail completely at worst.- The friction of the string moving on saddle.

 I would challenge any thinking human to find an aircraft, automobile, suspension bridge that employs a series of wires, bent at unnatural angles, and with great tension applied, that creates something you would want to use.

  No one would build that thing, no one would ride in that thing, and no one would drive on that thing.  Why?, because the tensions involved, and the infinite friction would cause disaster everywhere.  The aircraft cable would break, the cables strung under your car would deform, and the bridge you were driving on would literally “go out of tune” and collapse.

Engineers don’t design mechanical systems like this because they would kill people.  I suppose since it is a guitar, and it most likely would not kill anyone, I guess it’s ok?

  I respectfully disagree.  These examples may be a bit extreme, but ask yourself how many strings you have broken “just playing your guitar”?  Why does your tremolo go out of tune after 1.5 songs in a setlist?

  Remove the friction, allow the modes of vibration to “self isolate” and watch your problems disappear!

  This is why RayRoss stays in tune ALL DAY.

Bass-

Absolutely any bass string can be used in my bass hardware.

Guitar-

Gold Crowns work exclusively with Fender Bullets.  If you stick some other string in there it won’t work.  Trust me, I know stuff and do things.

Once you hear them and understand why, you won’t care either.