Each of us would definitely want our maximum appearance is not it?
What's more about music, very uncomfortable if our guitar fals or anything else.
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musical instruments such as the bass and guitar has fret and make it easier to play it compared to play with fretless, example generally fit like a violin that do not have the fret.
like violinist should really understand where produce the tone of the right. fret very helpful make it easier to play bass or guitar, because the fret separate tone to tone other (barrier between tone). when the fret had high not the same or uneven, then we will be difficult to play it.
Here we will discuss about the buzzing fret (not sound)
- neck guitar not straight (curve) Wood has nature adaptive, as we know each Wood definitely will adapt on climate. factors that lembat is likely to make the Wood be a curved, we suppose a window, when the dry season our easy shut it down, but when the rainy season will be a bit narrow to closed.
setting the strings can also affect neck guitar with setting too tense or not the standard
the same will also cause neck guitar curved slowly, because the tense strings on ,
then the strong appeal on neck guitar.
tension high burden neck, and it will make the neck be a curved, if the neck curved then also a height of the fret will also be changed.
-string also have a variety. there is a high tension, medium normal and low, and we select the appropriate the style of play US, Wood properties adaptis and also likely to curve.
2 . a height of the fret uneven under normal circumstances:
Neck is straight, but there is still a fret that is uneven and affects other frets. As in this picture
fret evenly
fret uneven
Uneven fret causes buzzing sound, and may not sound at all on a particular fret column, instead it reads a note in the fret column next to it. The occurrence of this problem there are several possibilities.
If things happen to your newly purchased guitar, then the guitar includes a guitar that fails the product and has not passed the quality control.
We also have to be able to distinguish guitars that are directly made by the factory (professional) and handmade (beginner). The guitar made by the manufacturer has a tool for attaching and pressing the fret to make the fret height equal, and the guitar made by the handmade is not the case, just using a hammer and hand strength (manual).
Installing frets with power manually using a hammer or other tap tool may differ from first fret and seturusnya, this causes the occurrence of uneven fret height.
- If the guitar that we use is long enough (old), and -certainly fretnya already eroded strings, strings that are not good quality and quickly broken will cause fret quickly eroded.
- We will discuss four ways to overcome
fret buzzing and no sound:
-1. Straighten the guitar neck
the curved guitar neck can be reconstituted using the L key trussrod,
and continue to use the L key rotate. Turn what clockwise when concave, and when the convex turns counter-clockwise.
Here we can use a straight ruler or string to make it easier for you to check it, place a ruler above the fretboard, we can see it from the side to make sure it is straight and neck before the guitar, or use the strings, the strings with normal tuning will be straight,
And use the (alignment) way, between the strings and the neck. Hit the string in the first column and there is the last column, make sure the string and neck are aligned?. turn again what if not parallel, if it is straight, stop to rotate.
- Size L key for trussrod: 4mm, when using the stretch straightness approach, do not do what when the tuning string is loose because it is not straight.And if the neck condition is curved then lower half the tone,
when the neck in straighten the string is not easy to break.
-2. View fret height:
If the neck has been straight, but still cause buzzing, or not at all pitched. then note the fret height, use technique no.1with a straight ruler or using strings.
Use a ruler above the fretboard, see if any are flat or uneven, use sand paper and smoothly align in uneven parts.
- Before flattening with sand paper, open or remove the strings first. If the fret has been flat and still buzzing and not sounding. We continue in the following way.
-3. Check bridge and nut height,:
If the neck is straight and the height of the fret is flat, but in the first column is still buzzing and does not sound at all, then slightly increase the nut height, or replace the new nut.
If buzzing and not sounding not only in the first column alone, check on the height of the guitar bridge. the possibility of the distance between the string and the fret is too low or close. Bridge height slightly raised, Especially for electric guitar / bass use small size L key, turn the bridge part to set the height.
- before replacing nut or bridge, Measure the size first
Its height. If nut and bridge are still high, Use
Sand paper to flatten it.
-4 . Fret that erodes some even loose:
If fret guitar / bass eroded very badly, because of factors length of use or there is also a detached, then in the advice to replace the fret a new one.
if you can not replace own, then search better understand the guitar (a professional), order your guitar can maximum as originally.
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