I'm always curious how people set their action. On the one hand, I like higher action for the booming tone, but lower action is so much easier to play. Right now I'm at 4.5/64" Bass, 3/64" Treble.
What do ya'll set your action at?
I'm always curious how people set their action. On the one hand, I like higher action for the booming tone, but lower action is so much easier to play. Right now I'm at 4.5/64" Bass, 3/64" Treble.
What do ya'll set your action at?
4/64 E, 3/64 e
Cool, keep 'em comin'!
Hmm, its always a headscratcher when it comes to fractions of inches, good thing we have google
I have slightly higher action, minimum of 2mm at E and around 1.5mm at E, i beat the strings a lot when playing rythm and this height works well with 11-49's
I'm weird, but I like mine low enough that one or two notes start to buzz, just a little, as you get higher up.
7 string guitar
High E = 4/64
Low B = 8/64
String Gauge = .10 to .60
Definitely a kaboom on the low end.
7 string guitar
High E = 4/64
Low B = 8/64String Gauge = .10 to .60
Definitely a kaboom on the low end.
Wow, that bottom string has some serious room to do it's thing. That must sound awesome.
Today I set up my back up SG to 3/64 bass, 2/64 treble as an experiment. Holy fizz, it sounded awful compared to my normal set up.
From the most recent (11/2014) Ibanez Prestige manual that came with my J. Custom:
"String action: 1.5-1.77 mm for the first string, 2.0 - 2.2mm for the sixth (7-string: 2.2 - 2.5 mm, 8 string: 2.4 - 2.6 mm) as measured from the top of the 14th fret to the bottom of the string."
"Neck relief: Press any string down simultaneously at the first fret and where it meets the neck. The gap from the 8th fret to the bottom of the string should be .3-.5mm."
I've never had any problem with this advice, and recommend it for electric guitar setup in general.
I thought it was standard practise to measure action at 12th fret or am i missing something?
I'm in the ballpark with most of you guys.
I think a measurement at 12th vs 14th would not be a big difference at all; I think the eyeballing would introduce greater uncertainty in the measurements than a couple of frets that high up.
Anyway, what's everybody's take on the note bloom thing; is it purely a matter of proximity to the pickups (in which case one could just lower the pickups if the guitar is setup for low action) - or is there more at play here?
When I tested at 3/64 E and 2/64 e, I brought the pickups down to the same distance as they were with the higher action. The lower action still sounded crap.
I don't have a way to measure my string height, but it's as low as it can go without buzz on any fret.
I have mine quite low, it buzzes a bit but you don't hear it through the amp. Had all my PRS's setup by this great guy called "Andy Guyton" really knows his stuff and now my PRS's play incredible.
i have an Ibanez 550, original one this was my guitar of choice when I was around 13 (many years ago lol) the action on this is incredibly low and what with the wizard access neck it's like you are holding a piece of paper not a wooden neck. Lol
i think ink string height is dependant on the person and the tone they are after. SRV used heavy strings and had a really high action apparently, maybe that was the secret to his great tone
On my superstrat type guitars its fairly low, but low enough to buzz.
On my vintage reissue strat its pretty damn high.
On everything else, its just high-ish.
I dunno why, but I have never liked low action that much. It seems like I cant feel what I'm doing or something. The high action doesn't seem to slow me down that much but I'm not super fast anyway. Paul Gilbert's Gargoyle is about my speed limit at the moment.
I like straight necks with fairly high string height and I share Yngwie's approach to string height for a good compromise between good vibrato control feel and ease of playing.
Yng: I like the strings high, that way you can grab the strings by the balls.
Very low action allmost to the limit of playability and 0.7 or 0.8 strings!
For MY hand ergonomy is haven I can play hours whithout pain!
You have to be very very precise in what you do because of the noise.
IMHO all about action ,strings gauge,guitar neck etc are the ergonomic aspects of this
unique tool you own (in this case your hand).Beeing unique all yours settings might be
unique.And if you make errors your hand will call your attention!