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Annoying buzz at the 7th fret

Alvabass

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Joined
Nov 3, 2004
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Location
Bucaramanga, Colombia, South America
Hi everybody.

OK, I've tried to ignore this thing, but it's really hard since I'm rehearsing "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" with my band (a request) because it's very annoying to hear that "brighter" D note when playing that cool octave riff. The weird thing (to me) is that the buzz only happens on the G string.

Of course I'm not a repair expert, but as far as I understand, a buzzing fret affects all the strings, but this isn't the case. Am I wrong? The G string sounds great anywhere else, so I don't think it's a matter of raising the saddle. Frankly I wouldn't like to bring my preciated Bongo to a guitar tech here, so I'd like to know if there's a way to fix this thing by myself. Thank you in advance! :)
 
I had my Bongo doing something like that right after I changed the strings. I backed the truss wheel down just a very little and that problem disappeared.

tk
 
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