Daily truss rod adjustments? I think I can diagnose the issue... You have fret buzz OCD.
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Daily truss rod adjustments? I think I can diagnose the issue... You have fret buzz OCD.
Try some pure nickel strings. The winding is more or less non-ferrous, so the magnetic pull of the pup mags is limited to the core.
You guys are impossible. Someone just tell me where I can host a video easier than signing up for youtube.
Hit the yellow "upload file" button under the last post. Most videos are too large though to host here IME, so better off hosting it on youtube and linking it here.
And we're really not impossible. We're just being real. Maybe you can learn a thing or 2 from the guys on here who've been playing for decades. Honestly, adjusting your truss rod everyday or even every week is beyond ridiculous, unless maybe if you're travelling the world going back and forth between tropical to frigid environments weekly. Any bit of fret buzz that you could possibly notice from one day to the next would be completely insignificant in the actual act of making music. I adjust my truss rods maybe 1-2 times a year if necessary (which on most of my basses it isn't), and I consider myself picky about how my basses feel and play. You should probably get a bass with a graphite neck if you're that hyper focused on buzz and adjusting your truss rod daily. You're going to wear it out.
No you guys are being pretty impossible right now. I went from no fret buzz playing accousticaly to fret buzz blasting out of my amp with nothing but a pickup change. I don't know how to say it any clearer.
You should probably consider swapping back to your original pickups.
Get different pickups
I wonder if he restrung the bass with the original set he took off or put on a new set?
I wonder if he restrung the bass with the original set he took off or put on a new set?
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Pass the popcorn, start the f'ing movie(Rocky Horror Picture Show)
I have never heard of pups causing fret buzz....I look forward to the conclusion !
I have never heard of pups causing fret buzz....I look forward to the conclusion !
I played all morning waiting for the pickups to arrive. When the got here I was playing. I had no fret buzz. I took the strings off and changed the pups then restrung the bass. I didnt change strings or adjust the action in any way. The bass then had fretbuzz so badly you could not sound a clean note. So severe it was choking the notes off. From there I put a straight edge on the neck to check relief because i was confused. It was normal. String hight was about 4mm ar 24th fret. Pickups had about 6mm of clearance when fretted. This did not make sense so I removed the pickup and the fret buzz went away. Once reinstalled the buzz was back. It doesmt make sense to me either but I did not expect to get blasted for it. It's a very straight forward procedure and I know how to adjust a basses action.
Get different pickups. Sometimes fret buzzes emerge from restringing instruments
Life is not always fair
What kind of magnets are they ? Can't imagine any alnico that would cause this issue a neo yes maybe?
That doesn't explain how it consistently buzzes with pups installed and not with them out. Only the strength of the magnet can explain that.
Im not sure. Nordstrand dual coils. I keep what most would consider a medium height action by fender standards. Lots of you would consider it high but yet here we are. It makes no sense to me either. I've gone down the check list making sure I had more than adequate relief and and saddle height.
Another interesting fact. The Barts cannot lift an 105 e string off the table but they stick to the Nords like glue.
A very interesting thread. It is possible for powerful pickups which are too close to the strings to pull the strings into fret buzz. If this is happening, then lowering the pickups, perhaps quite a lot, WILL solve the problem. If you lower the pickups and the buzz does not stop, then it's something else. I do think that lots of people do have their pickups too high.
I don't think that the fret buzz you hear, if it is fret buzz, is caused by slightly more powerful magnets. They don't have that kind of pull, if they did your sustain would be noticeably diminished and you'd be having a much deader bass.
If it's fret buzz... could you have knocked something out of alignment while replacing the pickups? Maybe the neck was not seated perfectly and you managed to move the neck a tiny weeny fraction? It is not that rare, if it's a bolt-on.
