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Location: Charny | Hi! I would like to ajust my bridge to have better harmonics and tones and to remove the bad sounds when the strings are touching the frets. Do you have good advices for me?
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Ovations have shims, under the saddle. You must lossen or remove the strings. Carefully lift the saddle up and remove shims if too high, or add shims if too low. To adjust for fret buzzing your action may be too low: add shims. You can also adjust the truss rod on the guitar neck. You can find information in more detail from posts on this board. What kind of guitar is it? |
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Location: Charny | I have a Viper III! What is the effect of the truss rod on the neck? I have some problems in the middle of my fretboard... some notes sound false but I don't know why. When I take a look of my neck, it seems to be okay... there is not curve or anything wrong.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | you need to adjust intonation at the the bridge before doing anything else.
There are set screws on the string saddles and you need to adjust those checking the tuning at both the open string and 12 fret. |
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Location: Charny | Okay! Is it better positions for each saddles or is it unique to each guitar? For exemple, my telecaster does not have the same setting on the saddles if I compare to the setting of the Ovation... of course I think it's hard to compare these models cause the bridge system is very different!
Thanks Jeff!
I saw you come from Virginia! I went in Virginia Beach 2 years ago... very nice and cool place with a lot of army jets (Norfolk I guess)! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Yes, each guitar will be different, so adjust each and every string saddle the way described above...
They don't allow me in Virginia beach...I live in the mountains and they think I'll pee in the water. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
They don't allow me in Virginia beach...I live in the mountains and they think I'll pee in the water. Isn't that how they keep the bath water warm in Virginia? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | bath water??? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | wait for it..... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I take showers.... |
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Location: closely held secret | I didn't necessarily mean your bath water... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
I take showers.... ...and, let me guess, they call that a date in those parts, right? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | not necessarily...we call it the first Tuesday of every month.. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
not necessarily...we call it the first Tuesday of every month.. ...that is, every month that only has 30 days in it... |
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Location: toneville USA | and what does all y'all's bath, pee water, non shower takin, banter have to do with this guys setup issues? as usual, nothing. way to highjack another thread, idiots!!
said it before and i'll say it agin, mindless banter from the usual suspects...
YRADF...yes, you. |
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Location: NJ | . . . and exactly what insight did YOU offer, Hal?? |
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Location: Cicero, NY | ...beyond just the usual grousing, that is... |
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Location: toneville USA | Originally posted by cliff:
. . . and exactly what insight did YOU offer, Hal?? that those who highjack threads are A holes... |
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Location: NJ | . . . that's what I thought. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Dear Hal,
It is a fact of life that after the first 10 replies every thread will steer off course and perhaps even degenerate into some of us friends exchanging harmless jabs. Sometimes we even write bad words. Please forgive us. Nobody is forcing you to read it.
Respectfully yours,
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How to ajust the bridge?