Guitar Strings "Buzzing"

FrankieG

Getting really frustrated at this..

My guitar strings have been buzzing for awhile now. Seems as though the string hits a fret lower in the fret board when I'm playing. Might be the strings, fretboard could be warped, or it could be twisted. Anyonw know how to test what the problem it? I don't know how I fix it! Anyone had this problem ?

DriftingByTheStorm

Could be a number of things but i would say, particularly if you have a lighter guitar (like an SG or an sg copy) that it is likely to be that the last time you restrung the instrument, you put on a lighter gauge of string than was on the time before that, and the strings are now touching the frets.

That would mean you need to either put back on the heavier gauge strings, or have the truss rod adjusted accordingly.

Some of what you said is also a possibility, but unless you have recently left your guitar in the trunk of a car for a long period or some other unconditioned space ... warping is probably not the problem.

Your frets *could* need to be "dressed", but unless it is an extremely old or extremely heavily played instrument, i would tend to doubt that. This also tends to only affect *certain* areas of the fret board. Like, you could play and fret most notes fine, but suddenly you go up to the 14th fret on the G string and buzz buzz buzz.

My guess would be it is a truss rod related issue ... either because of different gauge strings, or i guess possibly just related to seasonal temperature changes???

Just take it in to a qualified guitar store and they should be able to check it out and (if it is truss rod related) get you up and running again for something like $15 or $25.