Yet Another Buzzing Thread

The quick way to check is to swap out the G with whatever G you have lying around even if it is steel. If the buzz goes away, you found the problem and saved yourself a trip to Gage's.

mark

 

It's your bass bar, bud.

 

Hmmnn this is sounding vaguely familiar. I'd go drive up to see Arnold and get his opinion.

 

Kevin... i understand your concern but honestly, a luthier is the only one who will give you a valid opinion simply because he will actually see your bass. i had a nasty buzz on my old German a few years ago and i thought it was the bass bar, the luthier told me that the bass bar on the bass was a joke, however the buzz come from an open seam. When i had big surgery made on the bass, the luthier changed the bass bar and the bass sounds better but still... it wasn't the bass bar that was making the buzz. bring your bass to the luthier and good luck....

Nuno

 

It's almost never the bass bar. But when you press on the bar you damp the top, causing any buzzing to back off. I'll bet it's something minor.

 

...or sit in your chair and get his opinion.

 

+1 I have learned the hard way that this is the case. I had to take the top off of 3 different cellos to finally get it through my thick skull that mystery buzzes are almost never coming from the bass bar..

 

glad everything was minor. I was freaking out because of some buzzing last week, but then realized it was my bass rattling things in my room. man these instruments can make you paranoid.

 

I'd sure like to see us make a check list of everything that can made a bass buzz, and then have the check list made sticky.

What really frosts me is when I've got a new buzz working, I can't get rid of it, and I completely forget about what caused it on an earlier occasion . . . and it turns out to be the same thing.

Most recent situation of this: one loose tuning machine screw.

 

Maybe you have a bumble-bee stuck in your ass?

 

Open seam.

 

I had a similar buzz, it stopped buzzing when I pressed just above the f-hole on the treble side. It turned out that the bridge foot needed to be re-contoured. It was a relatively new bridge and somehow the foot changed with the weather… that’s the store I was told. The buzz went away.