I recently bought my first MM ever: a beautiful SR Classic V in black with maple fretboard. Although I am deeply impressed with the overall craftsmanship, the handling and - of course - the sound there was a slight issue that kind of bugged me.
At our last meeting cellkirk74 showed me his Bongo V which has a really low action and plays like butter. He suggested that I lower the action on my SR a tad. When I tried to do so I realized that I could adjust the neck almost to the point of being dead flat without any buzzing or rattling - except for the d-string...
After several attempts to adjust the problem (I even temporarily installed a smaller string retainer to increase the pressure on the string) I came to the conclusion that the d-string only rattles when not fretted. Plus the string rattles when fretting around the 12th fret - but only the part of the string on the fretboard (towards the headstock), not the part that runs over the pickup. So I assume that it's not a problem of the frets being not properly adjustet but rather that something isn't right with the nut. This assumption is supported by the fact that the rattling stopped after I stuffed a little aluminum foil into the nut - problem solved!
I contacted the seller and depicted the problem. He is a really great guy who tried everything to solve the issue via remote diagnosis but finally he came to the same conclusion that there might be a problem with the nut. Since it is only a minor issue and I'm not too fond about sending the bass to GB because of this the seller agreed to send me a replacedment nut at no charge.
Yesterday it arrived and it proved to be a Bongo compensated nut. He told me that he checked the compatibility and that it came from the official distributor for MM in the UK so it should fit a ok.
It is not that I distrust the seller but I would like to make sure there won't be any problems when replacing the original with a compensated nut.
BTW: What are the advantages of a compensated nut compared to the standard SR Classic nut?
At our last meeting cellkirk74 showed me his Bongo V which has a really low action and plays like butter. He suggested that I lower the action on my SR a tad. When I tried to do so I realized that I could adjust the neck almost to the point of being dead flat without any buzzing or rattling - except for the d-string...
After several attempts to adjust the problem (I even temporarily installed a smaller string retainer to increase the pressure on the string) I came to the conclusion that the d-string only rattles when not fretted. Plus the string rattles when fretting around the 12th fret - but only the part of the string on the fretboard (towards the headstock), not the part that runs over the pickup. So I assume that it's not a problem of the frets being not properly adjustet but rather that something isn't right with the nut. This assumption is supported by the fact that the rattling stopped after I stuffed a little aluminum foil into the nut - problem solved!
I contacted the seller and depicted the problem. He is a really great guy who tried everything to solve the issue via remote diagnosis but finally he came to the same conclusion that there might be a problem with the nut. Since it is only a minor issue and I'm not too fond about sending the bass to GB because of this the seller agreed to send me a replacedment nut at no charge.
Yesterday it arrived and it proved to be a Bongo compensated nut. He told me that he checked the compatibility and that it came from the official distributor for MM in the UK so it should fit a ok.
It is not that I distrust the seller but I would like to make sure there won't be any problems when replacing the original with a compensated nut.
BTW: What are the advantages of a compensated nut compared to the standard SR Classic nut?
