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Need some guitar help!!

Beecher · 2006-05-28 14:04:18

Having an unusual problem with one of my guitars where the higher notes on the high E string oscillate a lot. Soundclip of the problem here. The notes are being held with no vibrato applied. Can anyone suggest a fix for this? This is only a recent problem and the frets still seem to be 100%. The pickups are a seymour…

28-05-2006 2:04pm

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Beecher

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Having an unusual problem with one of my guitars where the higher notes on the high E string oscillate a lot. Soundclip of the problem here. The notes are being held with no vibrato applied. Can anyone suggest a fix for this? This is only a recent problem and the frets still seem to be 100%. The pickups are a seymour duncan Jazz/Jb combo if that makes any difference.

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#2 28-05-2006 2:28pm

punchdrunk

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maybe lower your pickups? could be magnetic pull

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#3 28-05-2006 2:34pm

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nearly be sure its magnetic pull. I have same problem on strat

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#4 28-05-2006 2:35pm

Beecher

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Cheers dude, I thought the same thing and did it but theres no change whatsoever!

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#5 28-05-2006 2:41pm

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Edit: Never mind, I'm blind.

I had that problem on another guitar myself, but it was the stock pickups that were the problem, it was solved when I replaced them with DiMarzios. I don't know, it could very well be defective pickups?

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#6 28-05-2006 8:23pm

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my bet is on intonation!

have you changed your string gauge recently?

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