-New Guitar Yamaha FG830
-Recently had the action lowered
-Replaced strings luthier put on w/ Elixir Strings, Phosphor Bronze with NANOWEB Coating .012-.053
-Guitar is showing it’s in tune but even when played open it sounds awful.
-Here is a clip of how it sounds Opened, Played at the 12th fret, and a poor quick attempt at Nothing Else Matters it was the only song I knew off the top of my head to quickly show the problem. I do not know how to play it.
The strings sound way off to especially at the High e and possibly B
I’ve replaced strings probably 10 times in my life and have never had a problem like this. so any help is greatly appreciated
Have you stretched the strings? If yes, you could try replacing the battery in the tuner and see if it solves the problem. Otherwise, you may need to change the strings again.
Oh wow i feel so stupid. I was actually just replying to @Jozef above you when you wrote.
I did like 3 months ago change out the battery in this tuner. I have barely used it and the LED is very bright. I didn’t even consider the tuner being the problem though. I had Guitar Tuna on my phone from a long time ago and sure enough it showed the High e being severely flat.
Guitar sounds much better now. Thank you both so much for the help.
@Kendan No problem. Just keep in mind in following sessions you still need to tune it a little. Its great you can already hear it.
I guess there could be error while you were putting ends of strings under bridge pins, I can remember in my first ever change I did it wrong and it needed lot of turns before it went to correct place.
For me it was something like this, please forgive my drawing skill.
Im actually glad you brought that up because when i was restringing the guitar the guy i watched did discuss it but kind of only in passing. He just said to make sure you feel the end touching the underside of the bridge, which I did. I wish I had your illustration then because it took me a little while to figure out what he was talking about!.
I was honestly melting down because I thought I did everything right! I was worried because I just spent all this money on getting the guitar adjusted just to find out I some how strung it poorly and caused damage or something.
I just had a very mini jam session running through a few of the songs I know and the guitar sounds much better. I’m very pleased!
Yeah… this is reason why I learned to do some luthiering on my guitar. I can do action, change saddle, nut… I understand it and I know when something gets off and its really important for me to understand.
I dont know if its legal, but now when I am changing strings I just bend a little the end of string, so it goes much easier “next to” pin and not getting stucked somewhere under. By this method I dont have any issues at all.
Yes, I do this, I think Justin covered it somewhere in a string change video maybe.
I also lightly shaped the bottom end of my bridge pins with a file so that the button cannot get caught on it.
