Please Help! Quick fix for acoustic guitar string buzz?

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What's up guys? Is there a quick remedy for acoustic guitar string buzz? It's my high e or little e that's doing it and I have to record a session in an hour. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks guys.
 
Mabee you have to adjust the trus rod it is an allen head usualy at the end of your knek or it could be in your sound hole you can see it but it bbends the neck. But sence its only your e strings thats probably not what it is, how much time left?
 
First thing is to make sure the guitar if fully tuned. The tension of all the strings at their proper notes bends the neck ever so slightly.

After that - in a pinch, I would probably stick something very small and thin (like half a toothpick), under the saddle on the high e side. This would bring ALL the strings up on that side (and I have no idea what it would do to the tone). I would never reccomed this for normal use.
Hell - Im not sure I should reccomend this for a single recording session either.

good luck,
Todd
 
I have about an hour to spair. I just put new strings on it and I've never messed with the neck or anything. It's mainly doing it on the 1st to 4th frets. I tried putting a little piece of paper under the string at the neck but it wouldn't stay in it's hole or whatever when I bended.
 
dmc777 said:
I have about an hour to spair. I just put new strings on it and I've never messed with the neck or anything. It's mainly doing it on the 1st to 4th frets. I tried putting a little piece of paper under the string at the neck but it wouldn't stay in it's hole or whatever when I bended.
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Did you change string size, and maybe go to a lighter gauge? If so, you might need a truss rod adjustment. If you did that, the fastest fix is to restring it with strings the same size you had before or heavier.
 
gbondo9 said:
First thing is to make sure the guitar if fully tuned. The tension of all the strings at their proper notes bends the neck ever so slightly.

After that - in a pinch, I would probably stick something very small and thin (like half a toothpick), under the saddle on the high e side. This would bring ALL the strings up on that side (and I have no idea what it would do to the tone). I would never reccomed this for normal use.
Hell - Im not sure I should reccomend this for a single recording session either.

good luck,
Todd
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i was thinking a toothpick too
 
Put something under the Saddle, tooth pick, a piece of a tooth...

Or adjust the truss rod...

Adjusting the truss is not that scary... Just do it in small increments.. 1/4 of a turn at the most...

Did you put thicker guage strings on....

Wonder why you would get a buzz now after changing the strings if you didn't have a buzz before...
 
I think changes in humidity will do it. I have to tweak setup after the change form summer to winter and visa versa.
 
Thanks for the help guys. I didn't get a chance to fix it but I miked a little closer to the soundhole than usal to kind of get away from it. Ended up using a AT4050 "which I thought might be too bright" but sounded very smooth on my D15! Not bright at all and the best I've ever recorded my guitar. Didn't really hear any of the buzzing on the recording. Yeah I think I did put heavier strings on there which probably caused the problem. On another note, can anyone validate to what GuitarKidd said is true. I don't want to go screwing with the intonation if it's gonna be a pain. I'd rather find someone who knows what they're doing. I actually have 2 pretty bad cracks on my guitar that will eventually spread if I don't get them fixed. I need to post some pics of them to see what you guys recommend. Thanks again for the help.



GuitarKidd said:
Put something under the Saddle, tooth pick, a piece of a tooth...

Or adjust the truss rod...

Adjusting the truss is not that scary... Just do it in small increments.. 1/4 of a turn at the most...

Did you put thicker guage strings on....

Wonder why you would get a buzz now after changing the strings if you didn't have a buzz before...
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dmc777 said:
Thanks for the help guys. I didn't get a chance to fix it but I miked a little closer to the soundhole than usal to kind of get away from it. Ended up using a AT4050 "which I thought might be too bright" but sounded very smooth on my D15! Not bright at all and the best I've ever recorded my guitar. Didn't really hear any of the buzzing on the recording. Yeah I think I did put heavier strings on there which probably caused the problem. On another note, can anyone validate to what GuitarKidd said is true. I don't want to go screwing with the intonation if it's gonna be a pain. I'd rather find someone who knows what they're doing. I actually have 2 pretty bad cracks on my guitar that will eventually spread if I don't get them fixed. I need to post some pics of them to see what you guys recommend. Thanks again for the help.
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Hmmm... I wouldn't have expected heavier gauge strings to cause that problem. Lighter ones, yeah, maybe, but heavier gauge strings would cause the neck to bow more, not less. Whatever; I'm glad to hear you got it worked out.
 
Now that I think about it it was doing it before but the strings were dull and I wasn't doing any recording. Guess I really didn't care until it was too late.
 
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