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supremesound
@supremesound
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Joined: Apr 22, 2015
Topics: 2 / Replies: 15
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Re: General Help

Be sure to check out our COMPLETE Guitar Repair & Set-Up Clinic. It's a great way to learn the theory and technique alongside a professional so th...

7 years ago
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Re: Guitar Set-up from Scratch

Sounds like you may have changed gauges and the screws that hold the trem springs bracket into the body need to be tightened. If you have other guitar...

7 years ago
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Re: Lower the action on an old Yamaha FG-75?

If your neck has a bow upward, you'll need to tighten the truss rod. That will bring your neck down, thus lowering your action. But that might not be ...

7 years ago
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Re: 12th fret buzz

Before you adjust action or fill/file the nut, you must assess the truss rod. That is the first thing to tackle in the procedure order of doing a prop...

9 years ago
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Re: Neck bending backwards

Before you take the neck off an shim it with business cards, have you tried adjusting the truss rod? That's where to begin. The truss rod is the rod t...

9 years ago
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Re: Building new guitar then this happened. PLEASE HELP.

Could it be that your neck is warped? or twisted? Look down it to see if it's straight with just a hint of a bow upwards around the first position. Wh...

9 years ago
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Re: Hummingbird Electro Acoustic Setup

Have you looked at your neck? If there is too much bow upwards in your neck, you won't be able to get the action low enough. You should always start w...

9 years ago
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Re: Acoustic Guitar Neck Warp

You can start with the humidifier and it may go back to normal. If not, you are probably just in need of a set up or slight adjustment to your neck an...

9 years ago
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Re: Weird Intonation

Definitely lower the action. And the previous post was correct about being in the middle of the fret wire. Remember, when you play the string at the 1...

9 years ago
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Re: Half Drop-B setup/string gauges?

I would go with a thicker gauge string set for sure. Many of my clients who do drop tunings and have their guitars set up in the lower tuning go with ...

9 years ago
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Re: The strangest noise ever

Could be the neck needs to be slightly adjusted or the action may beed an adjustment. Tough to say without seeing. Also, are the frets ok? Any excessi...

9 years ago
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Re: nteresting buzzing sound after attempted self repair with no prior experience.

Sounds like you snapped the ground that grounds the whole bass. Everything needs to be connected to eliminate the buzz. All electronics are usually gr...

9 years ago
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Re: Guitar won't stay in tune!

How long ago did you have the set-up? Was it set up with the 11's? Have you gone through a temperature change or humidity change? Did any strings brea...

9 years ago
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Re: Strings too high off fretboard

There are many factors that have to do with sting height. You should start by looking at your neck. If it's too bowed, your stings will be too high. I...

9 years ago
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