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Strings Feel Loose

des-olator	Date: July 22, 2007 @ 5:04 PM just got a new used electric and my strings feel loose and is weird buzzing coming from the center frets (fret 7 or so). There doesn't appear to be a serious bow in the guitar and I'm just wondering if I need to adjust my intonation towards/ or back from the neck.
mudshadow	Date: July 23, 2007 @ 11:52 AM might need a fret job, new strings, raise your action or still some minor truss rod adjustment...might just be a shitty axe (sorry) best thing would be to take it in to a repair person and have him look at it. Kinda hard to tell from here
officernarc	Date: July 23, 2007 @ 6:14 PM well, it sounds like it might just be that your guitar needs to have the bridge adjusted professionally. i mean, if it's just on the one string, it'll probably be an easy fix. if it's all the strings, (but it's still only the 7th fret), it sounds like you might need to have the fret filed down just a bit.
officernarc	Date: July 23, 2007 @ 6:21 PM also, if the strings are loose and that's what's causing the buzzing, just buy a heavier gauge of strings. to see if this is the solution, gradually increase the tension on the strings until they feel normal to you. if the buzzing stops, consider having your guitar set up for a heavier gauge of strings, as i have found that when guitars are left without proper tensions/gauges on them, you can have issues with the neck. if left long enough, you can even end up with some serious warping happening to it.
des-olator	Date: July 23, 2007 @ 10:29 PM its basically the 5th and 3rd strings that are buzzing and a few frets higher up. Mainly when I play this chord x577xx its the 5 fret string making most of the noise and a pit from the 3rd string on the 7th fret. To describe how my guitar sounds its almost like a banjo sometimes on some notes. I think I jsut need a good setup done on it
Snoogans775	Date: August 1, 2007 @ 12:30 AM yeah, sometimes a shop is the only sure way to go, if you can, try to find a personally owned shop(or a luthier), they'll probably just take care of it for you then and there. ...Guitar Center sucks.

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