alphadog808
New member
Hey guys,
Just wondering if you might have some insight on this...So, the other night at practice I noticed the charvel I was using with a '59 in the neck was acting strange. Certain notes(some fret 9 and above) on the high e were louder and harsher than the other notes when I'd play harder...significantly so. Sustain seemed ok.
I took it home and verified that it was still happening. I played it unplugged and it did seem to have a little bit of a fret noise in those areas. I thought maybe it was the amp or my modeler(atomic amplifire), so I tried another charvel(in a case)...same issue?? I tried another charvel(in a case)...same issue?? Then I tried a Les Paul, no issue. Then my beater charvel(NO case), no issue. So I went back to the first charvel(which had it the worst) and tried all kinds of things, dropped the pickup, put the screws down, etc. Was still harsh and louder unless I was very radical in the settings, but then overall the pup didn't sound good. I even tried raising the floyd to see if the fret noise was causing it-no difference.
As a last resort, I took off the strings(floyd rose) as I was thinking about changing the truss rod setting. I didn't, but put the strings back on. Somehow, the problem went away?? The strings weren't new, but they were far from being rusted out/old.
I can only think that maybe taking pressure off the neck and putting pressure back on helped keep the e string from slightly fretting out the string which cause the harshness?? Could it be that temperature/humidity effects are finally doing something to my guitar necks? Never had issues like this before and 2 of the charvels were in cases and my beater is always out lying around...
Thanks if anyone can shed any info on this! I'm lost...and don't feel like bringing spare guitars to gigs in case it happens again or have to worry about picking notes on the high e too hard.
Just wondering if you might have some insight on this...So, the other night at practice I noticed the charvel I was using with a '59 in the neck was acting strange. Certain notes(some fret 9 and above) on the high e were louder and harsher than the other notes when I'd play harder...significantly so. Sustain seemed ok.
I took it home and verified that it was still happening. I played it unplugged and it did seem to have a little bit of a fret noise in those areas. I thought maybe it was the amp or my modeler(atomic amplifire), so I tried another charvel(in a case)...same issue?? I tried another charvel(in a case)...same issue?? Then I tried a Les Paul, no issue. Then my beater charvel(NO case), no issue. So I went back to the first charvel(which had it the worst) and tried all kinds of things, dropped the pickup, put the screws down, etc. Was still harsh and louder unless I was very radical in the settings, but then overall the pup didn't sound good. I even tried raising the floyd to see if the fret noise was causing it-no difference.
As a last resort, I took off the strings(floyd rose) as I was thinking about changing the truss rod setting. I didn't, but put the strings back on. Somehow, the problem went away?? The strings weren't new, but they were far from being rusted out/old.
I can only think that maybe taking pressure off the neck and putting pressure back on helped keep the e string from slightly fretting out the string which cause the harshness?? Could it be that temperature/humidity effects are finally doing something to my guitar necks? Never had issues like this before and 2 of the charvels were in cases and my beater is always out lying around...
Thanks if anyone can shed any info on this! I'm lost...and don't feel like bringing spare guitars to gigs in case it happens again or have to worry about picking notes on the high e too hard.
