| Excessive Fret Buzzing
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So I've been really enjoying my new Fender Jaguar bass, but one problem has emerged and I can't seem to fix it myself. When I play notes in the upper register, I get excessive fret buzzing to the point where the note completely deteriorates. I know it's being caused by the strings buzzing against frets higher up on the neck. The problem is, the action is not really set that low, and the saddles on my bridge are already about as high as they can go. Checking the bow of the neck, I can see there is no backbow, and even when I loosen the truss rod and raise the action to the point where it is almost unplayable, I still get lots of buzzing in the upper frets.
I've even gone as far as switching necks with my Frankenjazz to see if the problem would go away. The neck I switched is a warmoth in goncalo alves with an ebony fretboard, and it plays very well on the jazz (super low action with no buzzing). But when I put it on the Jag, I got the exact same excessive buzzing. So I know the problem is not the neck. I also tried putting a shim in there, but it just made the problem worse, and changing the strings had no effect.
What are my options? I don't think the saddles on my bridge are supposed to be set as high as they are, and the neck is not the problem, so I just don't know why there is so much fret buzz. Please help!
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