How high is your action?

[super rad stuff]

Re: How high is your action?

Yeah, but who's playing your guitars, blues benders or metal heads?

my buddy's brother who plays shred, the manager at GC who plays pop punk, and this other dude who works there who played it the other day who plays country. that's just lately, as in within the last couple of months.

[Morior]

Re: How high is your action?

I like my guitar strings to feel stiff (semi-thick gauge), yet be easy to play (close to low-ish action) and be buzz free (carefully adjusted truss rod).

[FrankyBoy]

Re: How high is your action?

I don't even know where to take the measurements... I hate buzz so I tend to have my action pretty High I guess but seems like I will pretty much always get buzzes on the low E when I dig in just a little between the 7 and 15ish frets...

The best way to ajust your action is to get the neck near straight (very slightly bended) and you raise/lower the bridge right?

[Christopher Caruana]

Re: How high is your action?

Gibson LP: 5/64 (bass), 3/64 (Treble)

Kramer baretta: 4/64 (bass), 2/64 (treble)

[formula73]

Re: How high is your action?

I don't rightly know, but I have people tell me it's high all the time. I used to spend hours and hours getting everything just 'so' for ridiculously low action, but I finally just gave in to laziness and raised it up. I can go longer without a fret level, can screw off truss rod adjustments when the seasons change, I can hit the strings harder without buzz, and it's not like I'm a monster shredder and need the stupid low action for speed or something.

[Guitar-Sam]

Re: How high is your action?

My 7 1/4" radius strats I use 3/32 bass side and 5/64 treble side at the 18th fret,then I make a bazillion micro tweaks to the saddles till I get the feel I want.

[dr. ad]

Re: How high is your action?

Alitte over 4 on both my Strat and Tele, about 3.7mm on the remaining superstrat...
Going from two 11-48's to the strat with 12-54...
I like that way...not that I hit them with lethal force either...just suits my playing...

jebus, that must sound pretty good. plenty of signal for your effects tweaking, i'm guessing?

[Bass_Medic_05]

Re: How high is your action?

Factory is usually fine

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

Re: How high is your action?

Don't really know how high in actual measurements, I just go by feel.
I don't play Rusty Cooley type stuff, so I don't need uber super mega low action.
My action is low, but definitely not as low as it can go, because I feel it helps me to bend and do vibrato this way, while still keeping a relatively low action

[astrozombie]

Re: How high is your action?

Factory is usually fine

isn't it? ****. i find that a lot of the time anything lower will buzz at least a bit.

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: How high is your action?

jebus, that must sound pretty good. plenty of signal for your effects tweaking, i'm guessing?

Nah do not run that many pedals...
But I like big strings, 10-46 is the thinnest I can use without feeling I'm playing on rubber I guess...
But I can use them if needed(9-42), just like the pull of the big ones I guess:_)

[dr. ad]

Re: How high is your action?

Nah do not run that many pedals...
But I like big strings, 10-46 is the thinnest I can use without feeling I'm playing on rubber I guess...
But I can use them if needed(9-42), just like the pull of the big ones I guess:_)

apologies, thought you were a pedal guru for some reason

[Will S-T]

Re: How high is your action?

Can't admit to the "Mile High Club", but the ex and I got it happening
on a real tall mountain one time

I swear, there were iceicles on my testicles

Seriously though, I like to look at a string and it will fret where I want it to.
I do prefer flatter radi on my fretboard which still allows some resistance.

[TimmyPage]

Re: How high is your action?

I general use flatwound 12-fifty-something strings. I raise the action until it doesn't buzz under my highest natural picking pressure. I've been told the action is kind of high, but that the neck on my guitar feels so great that after a few minutes they don't notice.

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: How high is your action?

apologies, thought you were a pedal guru for some reason

But I do have a crapload of pedals!!!

Dunno about the guru label...but I do makes those for a living!