So i got my guitar back from the shop...

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I had them lower the action, fix the intonation and put heavier gauge strings on(power slinkys) and they oiled my fret board and tightened everything up.

It plays nicer but... the 12th fret of the D string is buzzing like mad and is annoying the hell out of me,. is there any way that I could fix this?

Also, now that the action is lowered the noise from my single coil is also a lot louder, my humbucker only does it when its cranked. Are there any advisable tutorials for an 'easy', and proper way to ground it without having to lay out another 40 bucks if not more for the shop to fix it....

it's an Indonesian Squier so that may explain a lot, its my first guitar so I can't really trade it in because i love it. I also appreciate all the replies I get when I post my questions here, you guys are helpful.
 
to fix the buzzing, you can either raise the action back up a little bit, or have the truss rod adjusted...that's the sort of thing that they should've checked for while doing the setup. in my experience, the most string buzz comes from the 7th-12th frets...if you get those straightened out, the rest will be usually be fine from there - unless, again, the neck is in serious need of truss rod adjustment

the increased output in the pickup is a result of the strings being closer to the magnets - in order to remedy, take a screwdriver and adjust the pickup height to taste
 
If it's buzzing just on that string and that fret it's most likely a high fret. The truss rod is not the problem. There was a big discussion on action and truss rods recently, read it, Adjusting The truss rod to lower the action it will give you a good idea of the purpose and effect of truss rods as well as setups in general. To fix a high spot on a fret it needs to be selectively dressed to sit right with the others. With a higher action it becomes less of a problem. Are there any other buzzes?

If you've just had it worked on get it back to the shop. A reason for a setup is to get the guitar playing as you want it to. Fixing a high fret is not a lot of work but best done by someone with experience, adjusting the poles on a pickup is easier. Both should be done as part of a good setup.
 
Take it back A.S.A.P. Any decent tech will fix the problems you described at no extra charge (within a reasonable time) in fact those things should have been corrected before it left the shop. A set up is supposed to make a guitar most playable for you, not necessarily the way the tech thinks it should be. If you are not satisfied with the set up then it wasn't done properly. Any time I do a set up I tell the guitar owner "Take it home, play it a few days, if it don't suit you bring it back and I'll do what I can to make it suit you." Buzzing frets are NOT part of a good set up. Noisy pups may be something not addressed during the set up but the tech should have discussed that with you before you left the shop. A set up is a service, and you should get what you pay for.
 
If it isn't a high fret, and you can't get the buzz to go away with raising the saddle a bit, or any of the other wise items mentioned above, look to the fact hat you went to ahigher gauge of strings.
I have a strat that I had set up with higher gauge strings, and the neck was adjusted, but I had a buzz that wouldn;t go away unless the action was set higher than i liked. I went back to 10s and readjusted the saddles, checked intonation, and it plays and sounds great now. This guitar was not treated as well back in its youth and i think the neck may have been beat up a bit, to the point where it doesn't hold up as well with higher gauge strings.

Daav
 
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