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Everybody's talkin' about....Truss rods
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:14 pm
by nomorebridge
the're not but I have a question anyways
if on a certain guitar you play a chord for arguments sake a open Am
but it doesn't sound like what you consider to be an Am what is happening here, I have tuned the guitar using my ears, a boss tunner and a pitchblack, all strings are in tune yet when I fret an Am for some reason I hear something closer to a 7th.
Now I'm 100% willing to say it's my ears but is there a chance it could be the truss rod and the neck bowing or something?
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:29 pm
by DanHeron
Intonation? Have you tried setting the intonation up?
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:02 pm
by Will
Have you checked the fretted notes on a tuner? Sometimes the first few frets intonate a bit sharp if the nut is too high.
Sight the neck, from the headstock looking towards the body. Use the strings as straight edges. Does it look bowed or twisted? Hold down the third string on the first and 17th frets: is there a gap between the string and the 9th fret?
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:33 am
by Bacchus
It turns out you're an idiot. There is no amount on neck relief (or anything else) than might make an instrument sound wrong.
Have you tried tuning it?
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:46 am
by Will
BacchusPaul wrote:It turns out you're an idiot. There is no amount on neck relief (or anything else) than might make an instrument sound wrong.
Have you tried tuning it?
High fret could do it; back bow is less conceivable but possible. The high ninth fret on my '29 Supertone makes the 8th fret on the top 2 strings sound a half step sharp.
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:53 am
by aen
Yeah. Intonation. =)
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:55 am
by Bacchus
DuoSonicBoy wrote:BacchusPaul wrote:It turns out you're an idiot. There is no amount on neck relief (or anything else) than might make an instrument sound wrong.
Have you tried tuning it?
High fret could do it; back bow is less conceivable but possible. The high ninth fret on my '29 Supertone makes the 8th fret on the top 2 strings sound a half step sharp.
A high fret could make an A minor chord sound as a seventh chord? There's at least one company I'd be looking for money off if that was the case.
Oh, and it turns out I am an idiot. I'm very sorry for ever giving off about anoyone, but for fuck's sake, you ought to be a but more exact.
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:54 am
by hotrodperlmutter
BacchusPaul wrote:It turns out you're an idiot. There is no amount on neck relief (or anything else) than might make an instrument sound wrong.
BacchusPaul wrote:for fuck's sake, you ought to be a but more exact.
WORD HARDER PLS, I'M UNSURE WHAT IT IS YOU'RE TYPING HERE
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 8:10 am
by Will
BacchusPaul wrote:DuoSonicBoy wrote:BacchusPaul wrote:It turns out you're an idiot. There is no amount on neck relief (or anything else) than might make an instrument sound wrong.
Have you tried tuning it?
High fret could do it; back bow is less conceivable but possible. The high ninth fret on my '29 Supertone makes the 8th fret on the top 2 strings sound a half step sharp.
A high fret could make an A minor chord sound as a seventh chord? There's at least one company I'd be looking for money off if that was the case.
Oh, and it turns out I am an idiot. I'm very sorry for ever giving off about anoyone, but for fuck's sake, you ought to be a but more exact.
It's not sounding a 7th, it's sounding something closer to a 7th subjectively.
We must hold fast until nomorebridge sights his neck...
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm
by Progrockabuse
my strat has a similar problem. when i play a d major at the 2nd/3rd fret, the g and b strings are slightly flat. seeing as i've not been using it as much, i've not tried to sort it out. i'm guessing it's the intonation. i use heavy strings on it too, so maybe i'll slacken the neck a little.