Hi!

I have a yamaha pacific guitar, the one that emulates the fender stratocaster, and I haven't used it since 3 months ago, so I grab it again and found it weird, the d chord and the bm chords were weird, checked the tunning and everything was fine, then I played string by string and found out that the e string and the b string were not alright, when I play on the 1st and 2nd fret of the e string, it sounds like if I was palm muting them, and the same for the b string but on the 3rd fret.. so any ideas? Because I can't find the reason, has someone else experienced this?

surely it just needs to be tuned again.

you know how to do that, right?

again? For the third time?

no problems with the strings itself?

may be you need to change them. :thinking:

it's weird, the e string doesn't sound much, on the other frets I do get the sound but I can barely hear the note, so I suppose I have to change it (?) but it's new, I mean I got it on december

yes pretty so to have to change them :thinking:

then i don't know how to help you, sorry :\

i'm sure other coldplayers can help you better :)

thanks anyway :) I'm gonna change it and see what happens...

Setup the guitar, check how many space there is between you're strings and frets, and check of that's right.

Also check the difference between the first and the 13th fret.

Also play some scales to check where the exact problem is.

Hit the first fret, does it also hit the second fret? So yes, re-setup you're neck.

 

If this does'nt work, try new strings.

And tune without tuner the e by yourself, just the same note as fret 5 on the b.

 

Hope it works.

thanks, I played the scales and identify the problems... but what do you mean by hitting the first fret and then checking if it hits the second?

and re setup the neck?! :confused:

thanks, I played the scales and identify the problems... but what do you mean by hitting the first fret and then checking if it hits the second?

 

If the action is to low of the strings, when you play the first fret the strings automaticly hits the second fret too.

 

and re setup the neck?! :confused:

Yes, because you didn't use the guitar for a short while, the neck could be have curved a bit, one millimeter is enough to change the whole action of the strings.

 

If those things aint working, you should change you're nut, but that can't be the problem, because nothing special happened with it, right?

no the nut is fine... but I don't see that you say of the first and second fret

no the nut is fine... but I don't see that you say of the first and second fret

It have to be the problem about the action and strings, there is nothing else that CAN be the problem.;)