| Title: | GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion |
| Notice: | Discussion of the finer stringed instruments |
| Moderator: | KDX200::COOPER |
| Created: | Thu Aug 14 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3280 |
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I can't find anything in this conf......
How do you get the best compromise between action/playability and
tone/volume when setting up your guitar? I have a Patrick Eggle Berlin
Pro that seems to have no structural problems, but if I want to get rid
of all fret rattle, the action needs to be quite high. Alternatively,
if I set the bridge to give a nice playing action, after about the 10th
fret, it is prone to fret rattle.
Any hints (to a fairly inexperienced player) on how to approach this?
Maybe a step-by-step approach to set up?
Thanks
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| 3020.1 | The Invisable Man | POLAR::KFICZERE | Thu Jan 05 1995 14:45 | 8 | |
I'm not to familiar with your guitar, but a lot of guitars have
slightly bowed necks, I could be WAY off base here but your problem
could definetly be caused by your neck. May be having someone a little
more knowledgable in this area to take a look at it would be a good
idea.
Good luck,
kevin
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| 3020.2 | pointer | RANGER::WEBER | Thu Jan 05 1995 14:54 | 1 | |
try dir /tit=adjus for a list of discussions on this subject | |||||
| 3020.3 | USCTR1::blasta.mro.dec.com::Pelkey | Life aint for the squeamish | Thu Jan 05 1995 17:23 | 11 | |
There's quite a few reasons this will happen, one of which is a bowed neck, (re:1) and sometimes, the frets need some attending to.. best bet is to bring it to someone who's decent with setting up guitars, and let them set the action for you... After a point in time, it becomes a compromise between action and buzzing.... But you should be able to get the action low enough to make you comfortable with the playability. | |||||