Death to the buzzing frets

[Lower-Than-Low]

OK, I have an old (and borrowed ) 5-string Samick bass and in about 6 days I am going back to school and will be layin down the groove for my school's band.

Unfortunately, the E string on my bass (and the Lower D string when Im playing pick) buzzes like crazy. So far the only way I've found to stop this is to play extremely softly with my fingers and crank the volume. I am sure that I am not causing the noise because while playing different basses at shops I never have any buzzing problems.

So, what can I do about this? I'm pretty sure I need to take it to a shop to have it re-set up properly but my parents are dead set against that idea beacuse it isnt my bass and they think it costs $50+ dollars just to look at the bass (Please tell me that they got a load of bull from someone)


(Disclaimer:I want to get my own personal bass but they say
I have to have a year of lesons first... If they'd just let me get my own all these problems could be avoided completely.....)

[higgi]

Time to do it yourself, it's not hard.

http://www.garywillis.com/pages/bass...tupmanual.html

[Lower-Than-Low]

Thanks. I'll see what I can do.

[MikeRS]

I just got that problem on my new fretless, the Badass II bridge is still adjusting to the stress of the strings and needs to be raised, I could fix it myself but those bridges use a slightly smaller allen wrench than what came with my other basses for the bridge, and I don't feel like tackling my incredibly messy garage for my dad's full kit of allen wrenches until the sun's up, I don't want to know what could get in or out.

[steveb98]

Try slipped some thin plastic or a few thickness's of paper under the strings into the nut slot. That should raise the string enough to fix the rattle.