problem with my jazzmaster

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castiron

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hello,
as you gradually go up the neck, on the low E string, theres this vibrato added to the sound and its really bad from the 12th fret up. i was hoping you guys could help me figure why it is. would the bridge be the problem? (it has a jazzmaster bridge with no buzzstop). i think im eventually going to get a mustang bridge and a buzzstop,but would it solve my problem?
 
Re: problem with my jazzmaster

sounds like it might be a couple of things:

1- your pickups are too close to the strings. this causes the strings to vibrate in an unnatural pattern, and you get those wobly sounds.

2- old strings?

3- how high/low is your action?



the mustang bridge is a common jazzmaster mod, but check out those things listed first.
 
Re: problem with my jazzmaster

I have found on my jazzmaster that with the stock JM bridge, the low E slips off and on a lot on the saddle and causes a buzz when it does. Is that the issue here?
 
Re: problem with my jazzmaster

That pulsating sound is what is called stratitus. Instruments with pickups that have rod magnets often have this. The rod magnets have too much pull on the strings so the strings don't vibrate freely through their arc. The main culprit is usually the neck pickup being to close to the strings. Pickups with bottom loaded magnets don't have this problem.
 
Re: problem with my jazzmaster

idsnowdog said:
That pulsating sound is what is called stratitus. Instruments with pickups that have rod magnets often have this. The rod magnets have too much pull on the strings so the strings don't vibrate freely through their arc. The main culprit is usually the neck pickup being to close to the strings. Pickups with bottom loaded magnets don't have this problem.
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thats what I thought. :D
 
Re: problem with my jazzmaster

The vibrato of the Jazzmaster/Jaguar is prone to instability under "vigorous" playing. Try using the lock device. (Correct set up procedure lovingly described at www.jag-stang.com )

Also, the JM pickups are of notoriously mellow output. So much so that, as has already been pointed out, adjusting the pickups very close to the strings in an attempt to increase output and treble response just causes other problems.

Solutions: Hot JM pickups. Just replacing Japanese or MIM pickups with USA ones would be a start.
 
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