Stingray 5 knocking sound

[Phill Keegan]

Unless I play my Stingray 5 very lightly I get a knock kind of sound when I strike the E string and the finger comes to rest on the B string. It's very annoying as I can hear it while we're playing and is very loud on recordings. There's no other unusual rattles or buzzes just this knock knock sound. My action is high compared to most. The local guitar technican carn't find the problem and it's even louder when he plays it.
Anyone had the problem or got any ideas?

Thank you.

 

[bovinehost]

Not sure, Phil....I had a similar experience with one of my Laklands, and one of the older boys (heh heh) figured it out right away as the B string being too low.

Raised the saddle just a hair and voila, no knock. And it sounds to me that this is exactly the same problem, because it only happened while plucking the E string, and it was definitely the B string making the damned noise.

But if your action is high, I just don't know what to tell you. You could, just as an experiment, raise the B string and see if that fixes the knock, but what then if the action on the B is too high?

Hmm, sorry I don't have better advice. Keep us informed.

Jack

 

[tkarter]

Pickup might be just a bit too high on the E string side as well

tk

 

[phatduckk]

this happens to me on my 4 strings. as far as i can tell its the E smacking back against some fret after being plucked hard ...

its annoying but what bovine suggested does help. the only problem is that you gotta raise the action.