Help Needed

lizzyrock

Hi All,

Can anybody recommend someone/somewhere I can get my guitar setup. Intonation is out so just a standard setup needed. Help much appreciated. Many thanks.

Dar

off.the.walls

What do you mean set up? like get a guitar and a amp and stuff?

lizzyrock

Are you serious? No I have an American Fender Stratocaster with more than decent amp and equipment. However the guitars intonation is out, so I want to get it setup. Thanks.

K0K0

Derek Nelson is the best I know of, charges a bit more but he's sorted numerous tricky setup problems for me.

He's out in marlay park in rathfarnham, look up Danvel musical instruments

off.the.walls

Oh sorry i read that wrong,, whoops

Malice

Moved to Instruments.

lizzyrock wrote: »

Hi All,

Can anybody recommend someone/somewhere I can get my guitar setup. Intonation is out so just a standard setup needed. Help much appreciated. Many thanks.

Dar

Where are you based? I imagine it'd be better to recommend somewhere close to you.

Demeyes

I'd recommend learning to do it yourself. Setting intonation is a very easy thing to do and should only take you a couple of minutes. There should be some vids on youtube of how to do it.

rcaz

Demeyes wrote: »

I'd recommend learning to do it yourself. Setting intonation is a very easy thing to do and should only take you a couple of minutes. There should be some vids on youtube of how to do it.

Especially if you've got "more than decent equipment", you should know how it works too

lizzyrock

I would rather let a professional set up my guitar that knows what they are doing rather than run the risk of causing some damage. Anyway I am based on the north side of Dublin. Any help is appreciated! Many thanks.

rcaz

lizzyrock wrote: »

I would rather let a professional set up my guitar that knows what they are doing rather than run the risk of causing some damage. Anyway I am based on the north side of Dublin. Any help is appreciated! Many thanks.

You have to adjust six screws a tiny bit, you can't possibly damage the guitar. It's exactly like tuning your guitar.

Dublin Guitar

Dedicated repair shops;

Eugene McLoughlin - www.guitarworkshop.net
John Moriarty - www.archtop.ie
Derek Nelson
Guitar Fix
Dublin Guitar Repair Centre

Stores that do setups;

Dublin Guitar Centre
Perfect Pitch
Music Maker

Even though we do setups on items in our own store, we do send our own instruments out every year or so to one of the above for some work. I personally use John Moriarty and Eugene McLoughlin and find them both excellent, as well as Jethro Pickett in our store, who has done some really nice setups for me. All of the above are good and the shops should have someone able to do that work too. It's never a bad idea to let a professional adjust your instrument

Hope this helps

lizzyrock

Thanks for all the help. I did find a very handy Youtube video so I will give it a go and see how she comes out sounding.

Cheers,
Dar

Grolschevik

Demeyes wrote: »

I'd recommend learning to do it yourself. Setting intonation is a very easy thing to do and should only take you a couple of minutes. There should be some vids on youtube of how to do it.

True, but every so often it's nice to play a guitar that has been intonated using a top of the line Peterson...

Plus, if the intonation is way out, a truss rod adjustment might also be necessary, which many people would prefer to leave to someone experienced.