Grand Wazoo
Well-known member
Read this carefully
If you have ordered a bass and it has taken the usual 3 or 4 months wait from the time you've ordered it until the time you've received it, and more over if you are in a country far away from where the bass was built, with different climate, chances are that unless the store who will deliver it to you will carry out a pre delivery setup, that when you take it home, you might experience a little buzz on some strings and you might think that the neck might need adjusting. DON'T ATTEMPT TO MODIFY ANYTHING YET!!! Don't touch the trussrod, don't fiddle with the saddles!
I'll explain why. These basses (and guitars of course, my apologies for not having mentioned them too) are assembled by the best experts in the business and have passed the highest quality checks, built at the ideal temperature, before leaving the factory. If no one has interefered with them from the time they left the factory until the time they got to your home, then any changes in action, and/or the eventual tiny weeny fret buzz are all due to these instruments travelling through different climates, thus resulting in body mass shifting in accordance with the temperature to which they had been exposed. This happened with my 25th that on arrival home "appeared" to have a low action on the E and B strings and and slightly high on the G and D strings. No panic - I knew what to do with it, as I did with my Bongo a year ago.
Follow these tips:
I have never touched the truss rod adjustment nor the saddle heigths. Of course there could be exceptions but if your instrument has been shipped safely from the factory i.e. the box was not stressed during transport, (neither dropped nor stashed under too many boxes) there shouldn't be no reason for you to adjust it from the optimum factory setup. I trust EBMM now more than I trust myself and it has paid off, this 25th bass is bloody PERFECT. The action is as it should be and there's no buzz whatsoever.
Hope that helps
If you have ordered a bass and it has taken the usual 3 or 4 months wait from the time you've ordered it until the time you've received it, and more over if you are in a country far away from where the bass was built, with different climate, chances are that unless the store who will deliver it to you will carry out a pre delivery setup, that when you take it home, you might experience a little buzz on some strings and you might think that the neck might need adjusting. DON'T ATTEMPT TO MODIFY ANYTHING YET!!! Don't touch the trussrod, don't fiddle with the saddles!
I'll explain why. These basses (and guitars of course, my apologies for not having mentioned them too) are assembled by the best experts in the business and have passed the highest quality checks, built at the ideal temperature, before leaving the factory. If no one has interefered with them from the time they left the factory until the time they got to your home, then any changes in action, and/or the eventual tiny weeny fret buzz are all due to these instruments travelling through different climates, thus resulting in body mass shifting in accordance with the temperature to which they had been exposed. This happened with my 25th that on arrival home "appeared" to have a low action on the E and B strings and and slightly high on the G and D strings. No panic - I knew what to do with it, as I did with my Bongo a year ago.
Follow these tips:
- Climatize your instrument to your home temperature. Leave it out of the case and put it on a guitar stand and allow at least 24 hours for it to adjust to the new temp.
- After the 24hrs period, remove all the strings and return moisture into the neck with a good dose of Ernie Ball Wonder Wipes Fretboard Conditioner, one whole sheet will suffice, just apply it again and again until the paper sheet has shed all it's content onto the fretboard, allow the moisture to sink in the wood and to dry naturally. Wipe off any excess, restring your instrument and tune to pitch.
- Don't expect an immediate result but this time allow for another 24 hours to pass for it to settle to perfection, while in the meantime keep playing the instrument regularly and keep tuning it up to pitch everytime (shouldn't be that often) that the new strings bed in and go out of tune.
I have never touched the truss rod adjustment nor the saddle heigths. Of course there could be exceptions but if your instrument has been shipped safely from the factory i.e. the box was not stressed during transport, (neither dropped nor stashed under too many boxes) there shouldn't be no reason for you to adjust it from the optimum factory setup. I trust EBMM now more than I trust myself and it has paid off, this 25th bass is bloody PERFECT. The action is as it should be and there's no buzz whatsoever.
Hope that helps
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