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my action is unplayable
Okay so I just bought a new bass, an Epi Tbird Pro, and I got it to not fret out but now the action is so damn high my fingers are slipping underneath the string at the 6th fret. How do I set it up correctly?
The action should be about 2.8 mm (0.11 inch) at the 12th fret, on the E string. The relief should be about 0.4 mm (0.016 inch) at the 8th fret. If that's the case and fret buzz occurs, you might have to look for a too high fret along the neck.
An Epi Tbird should play fine straight from the box but I'm afraid you've fiddled with it too much, its going to need setting up from scratch, this will involve buying a luthiers straight edge which will cost about the same as a pro set up. From what you are saying, the neck and truss rod are under a lot of stress so my advice is to take it to a pro for a proper set up, you'll be glad you did. One other thing, its a popular myth that you can get guitars with perfect action that play absolutely fret buzz free, its just not true, a super low action will just about eliminate intonation but there will be a trade off where fret buzz is concerned, mostly though, correct fingering of the strings and left and right hand muting will drastically reduce it.
Uh yeah, I forgot to mess with the truss rod before I started that.
And I got it used so I figured the truss rod would've been good already, I don't want to mess with so like you said I'm just taking it out to someone
And I got it used so I figured the truss rod would've been good already, I don't want to mess with so like you said I'm just taking it out to someone
And I got it used so I figured the truss rod would've been good already, I don't want to mess with so like you said I'm just taking it out to someone
And I got it used so I figured the truss rod would've been good already, I don't want to mess with so like you said I'm just taking it out to someone
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