Members missedmyexit Posted April 9, 2014 Members Share Posted April 9, 2014 I picked up a J45 recently and love it. Fantastic guitar fantastic setup everything is great until I put it in drop D and then the damn thing buzzes like crazy around the 8th-12th frets on the low E. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members acousticdepot Posted April 9, 2014 Members Share Posted April 9, 2014 Are you using lights (12s)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted April 9, 2014 Members Share Posted April 9, 2014 Is the open E buzzing or is it when you fret up around 8 or 12 that you get the buzz? Probably just the reduced tension letting the string vibrate more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members garthman Posted April 9, 2014 Members Share Posted April 9, 2014 There is a sort of balance between the tension of the strings and the truss rod, that keeps the neck in the correct relief, or bend. Lowering string pitch reduces string tension upsetting that balance, The neck takes on less relief, and the strings sit lower at the higher frets, thus the buzz. A couple of steps of pitch difference on one string usually doesn't make much difference, but it could if the guitar was already set up low, like on the ragged edge of buzzing. The strings are probably as close to the frets as you can get them without buzzing. I would bet that even when tuned to standard EADGBE, it will buzz a bit if you hit the strings hard. Raising the string height slightly will probably fix it. Yes, that will make the action a bit harder, but it's a tradeoff between that and string buzz. You could shim the saddle a bit, raising the upper frets string height slightly, or you could back the truss rod tension off slightly, increasing the neck relief. It probably won't take much. FF is very probably right. Slackening the truss rod a little should do the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members garthman Posted April 9, 2014 Members Share Posted April 9, 2014 Odd garbage pretending to be my sig ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ v v v v v v Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members missedmyexit Posted April 9, 2014 Author Members Share Posted April 9, 2014 I use mediums 13-56. I gave the truss rod a bit of a twist to put a tad relief in and it got better it will still buzz under heavy attack but it's livable for the amount of time I spend in dropped D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members garthman Posted April 10, 2014 Members Share Posted April 10, 2014 Garth, looks like HC has changed the way our sigs are displayed. Go into your user control panel and edit out all the HTML tags in your sig and it will be okay. Cheers, FF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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