jazseven Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 So all this hot weather the last few days has messed with my setup on my Cort C4H and now the E (drop D) will not stop rattling, be it open or fretted. any where on the neck. there are a few spots on other strings but the E it is every single fret. I've tried having the action super high, super low and everything in between and the same with neck relief, i've tried adding another shim to the neck and taking away the one that was there in the first place and i've also tried shimming the nut. but to no avail (at least with settings that leave the bass playable) just super persistent fret buzz. the frets are all level too (been at it with a notched straight edge and a fret rocker) so it's not that. I'm just so confused and frustrated and GRRRRRR any ideas please?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowieBass Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 If you've changed the neck relief, the action and the neck angle and nothing affects the fret buzz then I can't think of much else left to change - assuming you've approached this as if you were setting it up from scratch. The thing is, if it played well before and now, with the change in the weather, you're getting fret buzz, then that's only really going to be down to one thing, the neck relief has changed, and that's all you should be looking at to get it back playing well again. No need to add or remove shims, no need to change the action, no need to play around with the nut... just get the relief back to how it was previously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlungerModerno Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 What HowieBass said, 99% of the time the truss rod needs some tweaking after drastic weather change on some basses. The C4H is a wenge neck with a rosewood fretboard right? IME Multi-Laminate necks are more stable and react less to the weather. Depends on a lot of things though. Wood is funny stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manton Customs Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 Post number 2 all the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grangur Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 If you can't get rid of a rattle with all the things you've tried then the chances are that it's not frets that are rattling. I once had a Fender where, when I played the A string, the tuner for the G string buzzed. I'd recommend you pluck the E string and slowly inspect all over the bass listening to find where the buzz is coming from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffbyrne Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 +1 the above - a rattling tuner (as it turned out) almost drove me spare till I discovered what was doing it. G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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