Mrbabo91 Posted November 16 Share Posted November 16 Hi, I’ve got a relatively new guitar (around 9 months old). For the last few months, I’m getting some intermittent fret buzz/choking on certain notes/frets. It’s usually either B or E notes (mostly B). So when I get the buzz, I will experience it across the entire neck on every B note. So I’ll get it at the 9th fret on the D, 4th fret on the G, 12th fret on the B etc. It doesn’t sound like your standard fret buzz. It sounds like some minor fret buzz + a harmonic. For example, when you play the B note on the 4th fret of the G, you can almost hear the same note the octave above. It sounds like I’m using an octave pedal. This happens on and off. Some days, I don’t experience this problem at all. Anybody have an idea what’s going on and how to fix it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted November 16 Share Posted November 16 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Mrbabo91 said: ... Anybody have an idea what’s going on and how to fix it? Firstly (Good evening...), are we talking acoustic or electric guitar..? Any chance of a recording (a video with a 'phone should be enough, if it picks it up...), which would help enormously. Over to you... Edited November 16 by Dad3353 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted November 17 Share Posted November 17 Checking frets with with a fret rocker would be the second thing to do after checking the neck relief and string height. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrbabo91 Posted November 17 Author Share Posted November 17 9 hours ago, Dad3353 said: Firstly (Good evening...), are we talking acoustic or electric guitar..? Any chance of a recording (a video with a 'phone should be enough, if it picks it up...), which would help enormously. Over to you... I woke up this morning and annoyingly, it’s not doing it! It was quite bad last night. We had the heating on most of the day yesterday, but it’s quite cold this morning. I’m wondering if the temp changes have something to do with it. It’s an electric. I’ll try to get a video uploaded when it starts doing it again. Thanks both for your replies so far. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrbabo91 Posted November 25 Author Share Posted November 25 Hi, Here’s a video I just captured. It’s strange. This morning, it was doing it on E notes. Now the E is fine and it’s doing it on pretty much every B note across the neck. It even does it if you play a note below the B and bend up to it. Hope the video works. IMG_2643.mov IMG_2648.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted November 25 Share Posted November 25 Something is vibrating in the trem system I reckon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrbabo91 Posted November 26 Author Share Posted November 26 7 hours ago, ezbass said: Something is vibrating in the trem system I reckon. Something a decent tech would be able to figure out? Just weird how it’s so on and off. And that it’s only ever the B and E notes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted November 26 Share Posted November 26 2 hours ago, Mrbabo91 said: Something a decent tech would be able to figure out? Just weird how it’s so on and off. And that it’s only ever the B and E notes. A tech will sort that easily, I would have thought, although I’d be tempted to try and track it down myself. E&B share particular harmonic vibrations, so that doesn’t come as a surprise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
