This one is pretty much the boss fight
So, this guitar I have been working on for quite a while; it had promise, but some damage and disrepair.
I’ve previously had a go at the frets when I needed to.
In the previous episodes of the series, the previous setups have been relatively straightforward, required no fret dressing and mainly the aim is correcting any drift / bad choices and adapting the guitar for the next 6 months of temperature and humidity. This one was the boss fight, however.
Putting off the worst until last
With this guitar, as I was attempting to get the best setup, I…
Let’s give another the once-over
Welcome once again to International Guitar Setup Month!
So, this guitar previously needed a little TLC to get in good shape.
The old restoration / kitsungi project finally had the errant whammy bar return to it.
So, time to re-string and give it a once-over
Happy International Guitar Setup Month++
++ a thing I have just invented
A couple of times a year, wherever you are: dear Axe nerds, it will be time. Time to reassess, re-adjust, repair and reset your guitars. So, it’s now no longer winter on my part of the planet, and hence as these guitars are not immune to the changes of the seasons, and I do not live in an air conditioned house, we have to assume there was movement.
So, we’re starting by picking the guitar that has probably the least points to rectify. …
Don’t be afraid to consider breaking out the files
Following on from the previous instalment:
I felt the top 3 strings had slightly unpleasant overtones — this could have been age and deformations, but I suspected the bridge was involved.
Now, I actually have not been using a microphone, because I live in a “noise rich” environment, also I didn’t possess a good one.
I’ve been using a piezo transducer and impulse responses, which can yield a very nice tone, and with zero extraneous racket.
It also seem to have the ability to reject a lot of nastiness of the string noise.
It also seems to reject a lot…
Patrick Martin
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