string height?

AaronGuitarDude · Post by **AaronGuitarDude** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:20 am

what is ur desire string height? kindly post some pics of string height of your guitar.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:42 am

mine is pretty high. at least thats what everyone that came to broefest said. DUUUDE HOW DO YOU PLAY THIS SHIT LIKE THIS?

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 2:25 am

low enough where it doesn't buzz. any lower, it buzzes. and i don't like buzzing.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:11 am

when you play fat fucking strings and get used to playing them high up it kind of TOTALLY SUCKS to pick up and play anyone elses guitar. because i press so fucking hard that i sharp every note i touch on them.

AaronGuitarDude · Post by **AaronGuitarDude** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:26 am

yes.. i also hate high action strings.. it's so hard to solo and stuff.

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:47 am

hotrodperlmutter wrote:low enough where it doesn't buzz. any lower, it buzzes. and i don't like buzzing.

Pretty much this.

robroe wrote:when you play fat fucking strings and get used to playing them high up it kind of TOTALLY SUCKS to pick up and play anyone elses guitar. because i press so fucking hard that i sharp every note i touch on them.

Wouldn't you go sharp with high action anyway? The more you have to deflect to reach the fret, the greater the tension, the sharper the fretted note??

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:17 am

your theory makes sense but it doesn't happen for me.

i only go sharp when i play lower action with small strings (small for me is .11 or .10's) if its got .9's on it i wont even bother picking it up. it goes sharp after the string hits the fret and my finger keeps pushing down thru the fretboard. ive evolved some very heavy hands with .13's, high action, on the left hand and a very percussive right hand

AaronGuitarDude · Post by **AaronGuitarDude** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:14 am

rob either ur guitar need refretting or adjusting intonation

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:07 am

you would have to ask someone who has played my shit before....mez, shad, slaon, robOG, ends, mrs ends.

George · Post by **George** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:28 pm

Intonation has nothing to do with your strings going sharp when you press hard on the strings. That's to do with being used to thick strings. With medium jumbo frets my strings don't even touch fingerboard at ANY point on the neck (it is very new though). If rob got on mine strung with 10s I would fully expect him to bend them sharp until they touched the wood. Also, refretting wouldn't change anything either - if anything low worn frets would limit the chance of sharp notes because you touch the fingerboard everytime.

dkoor · Post by **dkoor** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 8:44 pm

Funny thing... with really low action & vintage frets I often end up digging on board... however I can see how that urethane over maple will really suffer

But who gives a shit.

Dirty maple is cool.

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:25 pm

I set my action as low as possible before it starts buzzing through an amp. I use 11s and 12s. Also have a medium action on my classical with 'normal' tension pro artes.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:01 am

As anally set up as is humanly possible for low action with no buzz. Fuck high action all to hell. [/tiny hands]

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:28 am

As low a possible for me too.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:23 pm

There's a lot of corksniffers who say high action gives better tone because that's what Stevie Ray Vaughan had. As long as the string isn't touching the other frets it shouldn't make any difference as far as I can grok.

George · Post by **George** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:47 pm

A lot of teh bloozerz like high action to get under other strings when bending to stop unwanted noises, jazz for the ultra minimisation of buzz. There's a lot of bullshit about high action strings "not picking up magnetic frequencies so they can ring clearer and longer" but you can just as easily lower the bloody pickups. If anything high action makes volume levels imbalanced: If I play an open string it's at it's heightest (quitest) point from the pickup, but if I play another note at the 12 fret or something the angle of the string is going to be noticably closer to the pickup making it much louder, depending on the gradient, as it descends to the fret. However this is only really a problem with the neck and middle pickcups, and even then it might be what you want. Anyway, your guitar will get louder up the neck which is actually an interesting proposition seeing as rhythm is often supposed to be quiter than soloing up top.

I like my action as close to 'average' around 4/64" or whatever Fender says to do it to. Nice and easy to play, with no buzzing through amps.

Post by **Doog** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:48 pm

Like most of you, low as poss without any problems- high actions just force your guitar out of tune because of the extra pressure required to make contact with the frets.