Help, I can't put my finger on what this buzz is!!!

[JimmyKickButt]

I'm looking buying an, aprox, late nineties mim fender fretless p bass. it has, I'm pretty sure, Ernie Ball flats on it. the 'D' string is down to the fret board at the nut, which I don't believe is the issue, and it has an EXTREME buzz when an open 'A' is played. I can't figure out where it is coming from for the life of me. it seems to quiet if I grab the tuner, the part the string is on, not the peg, but it sounds like it's coming out of the neck! Could it be the truss rod? I'm not too familiar with the internal works of the neck, so I don't even know if that's possible. Thoughts?

 

[M.R. Ogle]

Yeah, sounds like the truss rod is rattling. I've had that before, but most of the time a small tweak of the trussrod fixed it for me.

 

[goldenglory18]

funny, I have the same problem now (american p)

after tinkering around with mine, I think its somewhere in the "A" tuner, or the nut. I always wind my strings a full 2x on each tuner, but the A specifically is for some reason looser. the sound mine is making is also resonating all the way through the neck, but can be isolated into the tuner.

have you put your ear up to the bass and replicated the sound?