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Is that plugged in sound, or acoustic? If it’s loud enough plugged in, it’s probably not worth worrying about.
Either way, if it’s buzzing against the frets a little and killing the string movement could be there’s too little/too much relief depending on where the buzz is. Or I suppose very high pickups could be dragging on the string magnetically, though I’ve never seen this on my own. And when looking for guides online, action = string height set at bridge/nut, relief = curvature of fretboard set by truss rod.
But I think tune-o-matic bridges like that are supposed to have reversible saddles to get intonation right. My old SG had three forward and three back.
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Thanks. Yeah that's correct, three forward and three back, however they were all forward. I had it set up by someone about 15 years ago, they must have done that, or perhaps it was always like it and I just never noticed.
It's dead sounding both unplugged and plugged. Better plugged to be fair but still not right. Hammer on and pull off just kills the note dead, and actually that happens even at the second/third fret
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Question! I re-strung my old '63 Gibson SG yesterday and cleaned up the metalware.
The top E string is barely sounding as you go up the neck. At the 12th fret and beyond it's totally dead. I improved it a little by raising the bridge height a little at the treble end and I also noticed that the three saddles for the unwound treble strings were the wrong way round so I replaced them correctly.
It's still not very good though. I thought the top E string cut at the nut was maybe too deep, so I stuffed a piece of folded up paper in there but that was no good. I'm assuming it's probably the action of the neck that's the problem, although it's weird it's just the top E.
I have no idea how to set the neck action. Any thoughts
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