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What does it mean when your string sounds like a muted sitar
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:27 am
by BlindtoFaith
hahahaha. My d string on my Blacktop sounds like it is muted when pluked open. I think it may be a nut issue. Like the grrove is too big or small. I can hear a ping sound at times when bending that string.
Re: What does it mean when your string sounds like a muted s
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:49 am
by eti
Sounds like a nut issue. A competent tech should be able to fix it.
Re: What does it mean when your string sounds like a muted s
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:54 am
by The4455
BlindtoFaith wrote: I think it may be a nut issue. Like the grrove is too big or small. I can hear a ping sound at times.
Ah, nut issues...
Re: What does it mean when your string sounds like a muted s
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:55 am
by BlindtoFaith
eti wrote:Sounds like a nut issue. A competent tech should be able to fix it.
Awesome! Thanks!
Re: What does it mean when your string sounds like a muted s
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:55 am
by Gearmond
theres this banjo at Sam Ash that has a D string that buzzes exactly like a sitar.
i kinda wanna buy it.
Re: What does it mean when your string sounds like a muted s
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:07 am
by Gunner Recall
This solved my nut issues:
http://tinyurl.com/35yfr5x
Re: What does it mean when your string sounds like a muted s
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:42 am
by Mudfuzz
I'm going to say the slot is too big or it is angled wrong.
Re: What does it mean when your string sounds like a muted s
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:07 am
by Eric!
too big of slots give me nut issues too
Re: What does it mean when your string sounds like a muted s
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:32 am
by devnulljp
The4455 wrote:BlindtoFaith wrote: I think it may be a nut issue. Like the grrove is too big or small. I can hear a ping sound at times.
Ah, nut issues...
Re: What does it mean when your string sounds like a muted s
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 11:33 am
by Jero
Oh the things we turn threads into
Re: What does it mean when your string sounds like a muted s
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 6:07 am
by dubkitty
it may also be a problem with the bridge saddle. try pushing the string back and forth close to the bridge as if you were bending a string; if you can feel or hear it popping in/out of the slot on the saddle (and there should be some sort of minimal slot on the saddle, even on a barrel Tele saddle or stamped Strat saddle) then the saddle needs to have the slot cut or cleaned up. if you've got a Fender with the threaded saddles a la a 60s Tele or a Jazzmaster, welcome to Hell. the slanted orientation of the threads relative to the axis of the saddles means that something's bound to buzz somewhere unless you use huge strings that sit on top of the threads. back when Jazzmasters were new, people used flatwounds on them with .012s on the top. a simple diagnostic: pluck the string with your ear near the nut. does the buzz sound like it's close to your ear? it's a nut problem. pluck the string with your ear near the bridge. is the buzz close to your ear? it's the bridge. neither? it's something else.
Re: What does it mean when your string sounds like a muted s
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 7:06 am
by BlindtoFaith
dubkitty wrote:it may also be a problem with the bridge saddle. try pushing the string back and forth close to the bridge as if you were bending a string; if you can feel or hear it popping in/out of the slot on the saddle (and there should be some sort of minimal slot on the saddle, even on a barrel Tele saddle or stamped Strat saddle) then the saddle needs to have the slot cut or cleaned up. if you've got a Fender with the threaded saddles a la a 60s Tele or a Jazzmaster, welcome to Hell. the slanted orientation of the threads relative to the axis of the saddles means that something's bound to buzz somewhere unless you use huge strings that sit on top of the threads. back when Jazzmasters were new, people used flatwounds on them with .012s on the top. a simple diagnostic: pluck the string with your ear near the nut. does the buzz sound like it's close to your ear? it's a nut problem. pluck the string with your ear near the bridge. is the buzz close to your ear? it's the bridge. neither? it's something else.
Thanks man!!! I took it into my tech on Saturday. Stringer her up with 13's. I pick her up today. Will report when back home.