Do all electric guitars have fret buzz?

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Sherwood Braun asked a question: Do all electric guitars have fret buzz?
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Date created: Wed, Feb 17, 2021 11:21 PM
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Not all guitars have fret buzz. That said, there are two factors: the quality of the setup and the quality of your technique. A good tech will want to know how you play before setting up the guitar. If you're a thrasher, whanging away at the guitar, you'll probably want higher action.

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Your electric guitars only buzz when you pick the strings too hard (well, good guitars, then). That's when you strum the powerchords there's a buzz, there's the strings bouncing off the frets.

An electric shouldn't have any more fret buzz than an acoustic, but electric guitars often seem a little more buzzy than acoustic guitars since there are usually more screws and other rattly things to contend with on an electric.

[DISCUSSION] Do all brand new electric guitars have fret buzz issues? And is a basic setup included when you buy guitars from Guitar Center? I recently picked up a brand new Schector Demon-6 from GC.

Do all guitars have fret buzz? Not all guitars have fret buzz. That said, there are two factors: the quality of the setup and the quality of your technique. A good tech will want to know how you play before setting up the guitar. If you’re a thrasher, whanging away at the guitar, you’ll probably want higher action.

question here, that's boggling me, i'm not exactly a guitar tech either, but i have a buzz on my epiphone g400 SG, on the 15th fret 5th string, its the only fret that buzzes on the whole guitar, i've tried giving the neck relief and raising the action, no matter how high the action is, that same ...

I searched the forum but I couldn't find any threads that could help. I have also googled to death but information seems to be murky on the subject. I'm having a problem with fret buzz on the E and A strings and only the E and A strings. On all frets. I read that the popular cause of buzzing was ...

I got it. How do i get rid of it? The neck with the problem is a warmoth strat neck. It has stainless steel frets (don't know if that matters), I've adjusted the truss rod so that the neck is straight and the action is pretty high and there is still buzz. I have 10's on there now. The strings hav...

I have only been playing guitar for a few months so be gentle !!! My new guitar (squire custom tele II P90) is fine except for a problem with fret buzz. It only happens on the A string on the first 7 frets. Any other frets on the A string seem fine. If the A string is played open (no frets) is pl...

First off ALL guitars will have fret buzz when plucked really hard (if the action isn't sky high). There simply isn't a whole hell of a lot of room for the string to vibrate before it will contact ...

I have a late 80's MIJ strat and my low E string buzzes when played open. When I fret anywhere else on the guitar there's no buzz and none of the other open strings buzz, just the low E. It has some kind of floating bridge, not a floyd rose, the bridge says fender on it. Any ideas on how I can fi...

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