thebigcheese
"Hi, I'm in Delaware."
Help me out here. I bought a Music Man Luke 3 not too long ago and it's my first guitar with a compensated nut. For whatever reason, tonight is the first time I noticed this problem, but for some reason, I can not get the 1st and 2nd strings to sound right together, but they are perfectly in tune when open and at the 12th fret (I am a guitar tech, so I do at least know how to set up a guitar). I have never had this problem with any of my other guitars, which include a Deluxe Strat, a McCarty, an old Gibson, and a custom guitar I put together. None of those have compensated nuts. The only other thing I can think of is that I recently put those new balanced tension D'Addario strings on the Luke, so maybe some of the slightly different gauges are causing weird issues? I can't see why that would matter, though, as I put beefy slinkies on the Gibson so I can tune it low. Am I crazy? Does anyone else have experience with this?
Edit: Also they read perfectly in tune when I'm playing a D chord, which is where I notice it... maybe I am crazy? Somehow it still sounds weird...
Edit: Also they read perfectly in tune when I'm playing a D chord, which is where I notice it... maybe I am crazy? Somehow it still sounds weird...
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