High E String Vibration

[jerryfuze]

I am fairly new to the Electric Guitar ( if you don't count when I was 10 and Sears and Robuck sent me a double pick up instead of a single pick up..But that did not last long...

 

I have a LP 2010 Traditional Standard . I only use a practice amp currently and noticed that my low e string sounds like it is vibrating when held down around the lower frets up to the 6th or 7th. It seems to be most notible at the 5th. However , When played on a clean channel , I can't detect anything unusual. I have been using the D Dec 3 30 for a few months and my LP a few months. But on overdriven sounds or Drive sounds, the e sounds terrible in those places. I took it to the Guitar shop and they did a set up, new strings, and unfortunately, I did not plug in to an amp there , but got it home and there was that sound again. ( my tech only has a Clean Amp in his area and that is what he goes by when testing )

 

If I hit the string , one note at a time, it is not really noticable, but if I hit it at the 4th , and say run up chromatically, sometimes holding say the 4th and fifth frets at the same time causes it and it makes a noise like it is vibrating against something. Even the "B" string has some of that sound when held down.

 

Has anyone experienced this ? Is it Possible it is my Amp at that particular frequency ? I plugged in Headset and it was still there ! So is it possible the electronics are just causing a funny noise ? Or is it definitely my Guitar ? I am going crazy trying to figure this out..

 

I will be taking both my Guitar and my Amp to my tech and let him hear this for himself... But in the meantime, I thought I would ask if anyone has experienced this before. I know it is hard to really know without hearing it, but thought I would give it a shot.

 

Thanks

[strat-o-steve]

Lower your pickups a little, or try raising or lowering your stop-bar. It is probably the pickups being too close to the string, causing a weird over-tone to be heard on high gain. :D I had to lower the pickups on a strat once for this same reason.

[jerryfuze]

Lower your pickups a little, or try raising or lowering your stop-bar. It is probably the pickups being too close to the string, causing a weird over-tone to be heard on high gain. :D I had to lower the pickups on a strat once for this same reason.

 

After reading your post, I lowered the Pickups , but it is still there. I appreciate your suggestion . I am wondering if something is loose internally with my pick up. I will take it back to the Tech, and after he hears it, I hope he has other ideas, otherwise this is being sent back to gibson for repair and there goes 7 to 10 days with out my Guitar.

 

By the way, I tested it with my Ipad Ampkit App, thru my headphones and it was very pronounced so it is NOT my Amp...

 

Thanks again for your Post

[strat-o-steve]

Try raising or lowering your stop bar a little. It is easy for the strings to make contact with the stop bar or bridge in such a way that they can buzz and make funny sounds. Raise your stop-bar a touch and see if that helps. It HAS to either be the stop bar, the pickup height or something (like a saddle) rattling in the bridge.

[stein]

These things are best done in person, especially with newer guitarist because so much can be lost in the translation, and setting up a guitar actually takes some practice. To me, it sounds like the action, and you are getting fret buzz from the strings being set too low. Also, if the strings buzz at the lower frets (as in toward the nut) and not in the middle of the neck (at the 10th frets and higher toward the bridge) it is an indication the neck relief is not enough. That would require a truss rod adjustment.

 

But, that is just a guess from a guy on a computer. You could be describing something else than what i think it is and if you go on what I say, it might make it worse.

 

If you choose to experiment, it is a good idea to write down every change you make so you could put it back exactly the way it was before you started. And if you choose to do the neck adjusment, you only do it in very small amounts, about 1/8 of a turn or less at a time.

[jerryfuze]

These things are best done in person, especially with newer guitarist because so much can be lost in the translation, and setting up a guitar actually takes some practice. To me, it sounds like the action, and you are getting fret buzz from the strings being set too low. Also, if the strings buzz at the lower frets (as in toward the nut) and not in the middle of the neck (at the 10th frets and higher toward the bridge) it is an indication the neck relief is not enough. That would require a truss rod adjustment.

 

But, that is just a guess from a guy on a computer. You could be describing something else than what i think it is and if you go on what I say, it might make it worse.

 

If you choose to experiment, it is a good idea to write down every change you make so you could put it back exactly the way it was before you started. And if you choose to do the neck adjusment, you only do it in very small amounts, about 1/8 of a turn or less at a time.

 

Thanks for all the suggestions. I too thought it is all the above, but the Tech has called one of his experts and it looks like this may be going back to Gibson for an evaluation. They pulled down another LP Traditional and it was doing a similar sound, but not as pronounced. I have noticed that some guitars make that sound slightly ( even at the 6th fret like mine ) but it does not take away from the Note sounding out like mine is doing. So I was going to be with out a guitar, but being in the guitar shop, I bought a used PRS Semi Hollow SE Custom to have fun with. Of course, I was eying this Les Paul look alike from PRS, but it was very expensive. Glad I have some will power... Thanks again for all the help and if anything comes from this, I will report it back here. Just in case this happens to someone