Stupid newbie question regarding fret buzz and "low action".

[darshman]

I got a sweet Schecter C-4 last week and love it, but noticed that there's a lot of fret buzz on the first 8 frets, mostly on the E string, though it's lightly there on the others. I set the bass on a table to see if the strings got lower at that point, and sure enough, they kind of do. I asked a few people on Craigslist about this, and most of them mentioned that the neck/tuss rod might need readjusting. But at the same time, a guy at work who really knows his stuff said that whoever had it set up had it set for low action. Is that part of the problem? I have no clue what a lot of these commonly used terms are, but I'm workin' on learning.

So I quess the question is- does setting the neck at a different angle what causes "low action"? I plan on taking it into a local music shop, but would still like to learn about things like this from people who've dealt with it before.

[infect]

In general, fret buzz in just the lower frets means there isn't enough 'bow' in the neck. The looser the truss rod, the more bow there is. So a slight turn of the truss rod to make slightly less tension (looser) would probably do the trick.

[jtc_hunter]

This is very helpful:http://www.garywillis.com/pages/bass...tupmanual.html