Strangest fret buzz ever!

[fistymccrazy]

I have recently bought a Stingray (first ever... yiew!) and in the course of playing it in I came across a very strange phenomenon:

For some strange reason, when I fret the 9th fret on the A string and play the 8th fret on the G string I get an incredibly loud buzzing sound. (Similar sound to regular fret buzz, but on an extreme scale.) It only occurs when I fret these two particular notes and play the G string - no other combination of notes causes the same result.

Has anyone had this same problem? Can anyone explain this to me? I am not entirely ignorant about setup, etc., but I can't think of a reason for the buzz.

 

[oli@bass]

Just don't fret the notes like that

Seriously, the fretted part of the A string (from the nut to the 9th fret) starts a sympathetic vibration stimulated by the ringing not on the G string. If you have very low action, the fretted part of strings often is not able to vibrate freely (generally that's not neither necessary nor a problem) and therefore produces fret buzz.

You can either give the neck a little more relief, but that will also yield higher action. However, if the buzz doesn't come through the amp, there's no problem at all.