Low E buzzes...stupid humidity changes!

[Tres Aardvarks]

I'm clearly still getting the hang of,living in humidity again. Pulled my flame Cali out to play and it has a bad buzz only at the 8th & 10th frets on the Low E. Nowhere else! Seems odd that it would just be there. The buzz is so bad that unless I really push down on it, the whole note is just a bbbbbzzzzz.

Any recommendations before I end up just raising the action high enough to not hear it?

[Caddie]

The fat E-string? Just remove it like Keith Richard does.

[zenmindbeginner]

Most of my guitars need their Summer set-up.

I got buzz and crazy low action in set-neck guitars that haven't been played in several weeks... not cool. The bolt-ons are more or less fine.

Tight and well crafted neck joints + glue is such a humidity fail. : (

[Caddie]

Here's another idea. You say this problem started when the humidity came up, eh? Put desiccant packs inside the case to absorb those diabolic H2O (aka water) compounds. The packs are anywhere from the size of a packet of EQUAL to the size of a humbucker. Put it between the pickups underneath the strings. Or just wait until November or December to play it. Have a summer axe and a winter axe. Buy some of mine to fill out you arsenal. Hint, hint, nudge, nudge.

Cheers!

caddie

[Tres Aardvarks]

Too many guitars is part of the problem, Caddie! Dealing with this just enforces my belief I need to thin the herd. I'd rather spend my time playing them than constantly having to tweak each guitar I pull out of a case.

[Never2Late]

HA! I've had fret buzz fresh-out-of-the-case after spending north of $100 for a professional setup at a former Hamer dealership. Hard part was figuring out which way to tweak the truss rod to get rid of it. But I understand your frustration.

[RichRS6]

What gauge strings do you have on the guitar ?

I find this problem is worse on the guitars I have strung with 9's rather than 10's.

My irrational feeling is that the 10's exert more pull on the neck meaning the truss rod has to be tighter balancing out the loads better, the tendency for the humidity/heat to affect the neck is lessened.

BS probably.

[Studio Custom]

They make a thingy to solve these issues, it's called.....hmmmm....let me think about it...ooooohhhhhh...I got it, a dehumidiifer!

[Tres Aardvarks]

They make a thingy to solve these issues, it's called.....hmmmm....let me think about it...ooooohhhhhh...I got it, a dehumidiifer!

Yes, and then in winter a humidifier. It'll be a lot easier to control once the guitars and I move out to the carriage house office(which has yet to be built), rather than have them in a 2000 sq ft basement!

[Tres Aardvarks]

What gauge strings do you have on the guitar ?

I find this problem is worse on the guitars I have strung with 9's rather than 10's.

9s. All my guitars used to have ridiculously high action so I never noticed issues like this

[tomteriffic]

It happens on a acoustics too. Most of my Hamers are no worries, but the Duotone Custom for some reason likes to wiggle one way or another. I usually find out about it about a half-hour before a show And the necessary truss-rod wrench is something I have to cobble together from a small socket set, extensions, etc. Still, about an eighth of a turn is all it takes, usually.

The acoustics can be maddening. My "Sleeper" guitar had been in a carefully climate-controlled store for several years. I've been letting it sit out so I can break it in and also to acclimate to the house. After only a few days, the little E plinks if I play it too hard and the big E has developed a buzz in the trussrod fixable region. I'm going to let it settle for a while before I go after it. The other two seem OK for the moment.

[tobereeno]

humidity sucks. I've found that all of my Hamers have adjusted to the regional weather, as I've moved around in the past. Some took months for the necks to "relax". Hopefully time (and requisite truss rod adjustments) will also cure your buzz. Time is also free