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String buzz


highwayone
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Hold your bass up and look beneath the strings. If any of them are touching the frets, raise the strings that touch the frets. Adjust string height by raising the height at the bridge with a hex wrench or standard screwdrivers.

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Depends where exactly the buzz is coming from. I've had buzz before from a loose clover leaf/elephant ear that wasn't securely attached to the shaft. A small drop of superglue wicked into the joint fixed that.

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What can happen is the A string, if wound highly on the tuning peg, this can vibrate. Play the string open, and if buzzing, place a finger on the string behind the nut. If it goes, try and wind the string lower down, to roughly where the D & G are wound.

If not this, get an allen key for the saddles on the bridge, and just tighten all of them a tiny bit - it may be one isn`t tight enough, so this is causing the buzz.

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