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• #ACTION STRINGS 12 TH FRET ELECTRIC GUIATAR FREE#

I apologize in advance if you get confused. This is a little difficult to explain, but I'll try my best. And I do this for the reason that if I don't, my fingers will run over other strings when I do bends. See Gibson for more information.I personally set the action of my guitars to be what I call "medium-high", meaning not low but not high either.

#ACTION STRINGS 12 TH FRET ELECTRIC GUIATAR FREE#

Gibson now offers a Virtual Guitar Tech service that offers free online setup consultations to all players.So a lot of players are very passionate about that. Doing that allows you to adjust the tailpiece all the way down to the body, but it reduces the resulting string break angle because of the strings wrapping around and leaving from the top of the stopbar. “Some people also like to insert the strings back-to-front, so they wrap over the stopbar tailpiece, and Duane Allman was a big proponent of that. As long as it still has a positive break angle: you don’t want it so loose that the strings fall out of the saddles. “You could raise the bar up and that’ll reduce the string angle and make it feel a little bit slinkier. That will increase the angle from the bridge and provide a slightly stiffer feel to the strings – some people say sustain, too, but that’s a subtle thing. “Some people like to adjust the stopbar all the way down the body, which will give the greatest possible break angle across the bridge. “Another thing you can do is adjust the height of the stopbar tailpiece,” Jim says. I suggest, in that instance, leaving both the E strings polepieces flush with the pickup and then raising them in for the B, G, D and A to provide that radius, as measured with a ruler or a radius gauge.” “But if you want you can adjust them to conform to the radius of the fingerboard, which for Gibson is a 12-inch radius. “Today it’s not quite that critical. Our factory spec, when we make the pickups, they’re pretty flat with the top of the cover, or the top of the bobbin if they’re open pickups. So, generally, pickup polepieces on the B string were set lower than the other strings. “So your G was a lot weaker sounding than the B string and then the B string, being thicker than E, would overpower that.

“Years ago, standard string sets would feature a wound G with a relatively thin core,” Jim says. If you want a hotter sound, you can raise them up slightly.” 6. If you want a cleaner sound, you can lower those pickups. Then repeat the same procedure for the bridge pickup, except here we adjust the bridge to 3/64ths of an inch. “Starting with the neck pickup, you hold the high E string down at the highest fret and then measure the distance from the bottom of the high E string to the top of the pickup polepiece – and then do the same with the low E string. In the case of the Les Paul or an SG, that would be the 22nd fret. “To adjust the pickups, you hold both E strings down at the highest fret. You can adjust lower, for example, if you have lighter touch or play heavier strings – they don’t tend to buzz as much as lighter-gauge strings do.”Īdjust the pickup height up for a hotter sound and down for cleaner tones. Of course, those are our factory specs and your taste may vary. “Once you have those two sets of specs, you adjust your bridge accordingly and that dials in your action.

Then on the low E string, we’re looking for a gap of 5/64ths of an inch from the top of the fret to the bottom of the low E string. In other words, that’s the gap we’re looking for between the 12th fret and the bottom of the high E string. “On electrics, our official spec is 3/64ths of an inch. “Once you’ve checked the nut height at the 1st fret, it’s time to check the action at the 12th fret,” Jim says. The other strings are graduated between those dimensions.” 4. And then on the low E string, we look for 2/64th of an inch between the top of the fret and the bottom of the string.

“At the 1st fret, we’ll look to have 1/64th of an inch between the top of the fret and the bottom of the high E string. “I’m not suggesting you should modify the height of the nut yourself but you should check it, in case work needs to be done. “Once your neck is adjusted, look at the action at the nut,” Jim explains.