Whenever I use a pick and pick an open A string fairly hard, I can hear the truss rod rattling within the neck. It only happens with the open A string. I put my ear up the neck and i can defintely hear it rattling. I normally wouldn't play that hard but just the fact that it's there is kind of annoying. I know it's not the strings hitting the frets either because I set the bass up so it wouldn't buzz.
I tightened the truss rod another 1/4 turn to see if maybe taking up some slack would get rid of the rattle but it didn't help. Is there a problem with my bass ? The truss rod seems to work just fine. Seems like this might be one of those Fender quirks i'll have to live with ?
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Originally Posted by Kobaia
this forum is like ****ing girls gone wild, except with basses.
If you're lucky, it's only one of your tuning machines.
try muting them with your left hand while picking.. happened to me.
no idea, what if it's really the truss rod..
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