Fret Rattle - Squier Vintage Modified Bass V

[Jim Kuzman]

Tryouts for a budget-friendly 5 string continue.

Today's visit concentrated mostly on a pair of Squier Vintage Modified basses, a P and a J.

I mentioned in another post that the B and E string buzzed on these basses but it's really more like a metallic rattle. The store's set up and repair tech was there today so I chatted with him about it.

He was very generous with his time and information and even took the J version down and did some work on it, adding relief to the neck and raising the bridge saddles. This helped but even after significant work they were still clanging away.

Other 5 strings didn't do this and the Squier 4 string versions didn't either.

So an appeal to anyone on owns or plays a 5 string Squier Vintage Modified P or J: Does yours suffer the same issue?

Thanks in advance for the input,

Jim

 

[Dr. Cheese]

I own a VM P5 and it has no rattle. The VM J5 had no rattle either. Look at String break angle behind the nut. Of course neck bow, bridge adjustment, and string type could affect rattle too.

 

[eastcoasteddie]

My VMJV may have a metallic rattle sound on the nut side of a fretted string, not on the pickup side (where it matters). It is slightly audible when played acoustically, but not when plugged in. It is most likely due to the nut slots being cut slightly lower than they should have been, but it doesn't bother me one bit.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

Tryouts for a budget-friendly 5 string continue.

Today's visit concentrated mostly on a pair of Squier Vintage Modified basses, a P and a J.

I mentioned in another post that the B and E string buzzed on these basses but it's really more like a metallic rattle. The store's set up and repair tech was there today so I chatted with him about it.

He was very generous with his time and information and even took the J version down and did some work on it, adding relief to the neck and raising the bridge saddles. This helped but even after significant work they were still clanging away.

Other 5 strings didn't do this and the Squier 4 string versions didn't either.

So an appeal to anyone on owns or plays a 5 string Squier Vintage Modified P or J: Does yours suffer the same issue?

Thanks in advance for the input,

Jim

Got one and I love it been one of my main gigging basses for 2 years. No rattles.
In I playfairly aggressively with low action.
The noise you describe sounds like a bad string or loose saddles or tuners.

 

[UNICORN BASS]

+1 on the tuners. Quite often the tuner paddle is ever so slightly loose on the post. This can be fixed a number of ways, my method is a tiny drop of Loctite.