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11-13-2005, 07:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Vergennes,VT USA | | | Why is my fretless "buzzing"?
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Hey Guys,
I pulled my old Ibanez fretless out the other day and noticed a "buzzing" on the G string at the 12th "fret" position. I have Rotosound Swing Bass strings on it and it the fretboard has been treated with polyurethane.What do you think? Not enough relief? The same buzzing occurs on the other strings at higher regsters. Thanks for any advice...
Brent  |
11-13-2005, 07:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY/Boston, MA | | | Sounds like too much relief actually. |
11-13-2005, 07:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: World-Europe-Serbia-Belgrade | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Figjam Sounds like too much relief actually. | I Agree!
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11-13-2005, 08:25 AM
| | | | g&l l2000 fretless...very good basses. |
11-13-2005, 08:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY/Boston, MA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by zazz g&l l2000 fretless...very good basses. | You just posted that in a different fretless thread. Its not even releveant here. |
11-13-2005, 09:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Vergennes,VT USA | | | The neck looks almost flat when I sight down it. |
11-13-2005, 09:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY/Boston, MA | | | Fingerboard may need to be planed. |
11-13-2005, 10:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bel Air, MD | | | Perhaps you have a raisng tongue? That happens on instruments that sit around!
Chad |
11-13-2005, 12:06 PM
| | | | Before you go any further, you need to figure out if the buzzing is between the nut and your finger or the bridge and your finger. If it's between the nut and your finger, you probably need a little more relief. |
11-13-2005, 01:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Vergennes,VT USA | | | It's the between the bridge and my finger. |
11-13-2005, 02:04 PM
| | | | I am gonna disagree with the trend here and say...... Do not diagnose whether your relief is correct or not by the existence of a problem such as buzzing. Instead, measure your relief (by holding at 1st fret position and near the end of the neck and measuring in the middle) I like the thickness of a business card.then adjust if necessary If after that you have a buzz, raise the saddles and/or check for wear on the fingerboard
Jeff |
11-13-2005, 03:10 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | It really is worth looking into the "raising tongue" issue someone pointed out before. Even if the relief looks right by pressing down a string at both ends, there may still be an irregularity near one of the ends. |
11-13-2005, 06:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Vergennes,VT USA | | | Thanks for all of the advice fellas! It's always something isn't it?
Brent |
11-13-2005, 09:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Figjam Fingerboard may need to be planed. | ummm...he just said that it was coated...planing is not really a first, second, or even third option....
check the relief...if it looks ok...then go for raising the saddle slightly until it goes away...
we're talking a G-string here, it's amazing how little you have to raise the action to get that problem to go away...you'll hardly notice it...
((***waiting for the mods to move this one to "setup" ***))
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11-14-2005, 10:49 PM
|  | Holy Ghost filled Bass Player Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Heber Springs, Arkansas | | | This one deserves another go round in Setup. I agree with several others that this is definitely some kind of setup issue. Moved. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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