NGD: AV64 Tele

For guitars of the straight waisted variety (or reverse offset).
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Re: NGD: AV64 Tele

Post by fisonic » Mon Nov 27, 2017 5:18 pm

If you're going brass & want compensated,
The Gotoh "In Tune" saddles are hard to beat IMHO

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Re: NGD: AV64 Tele

Post by otis » Sat Dec 09, 2017 7:58 am

I wanted to report back on the pickup-heights of my tele.
This afternoon I tried some things out and I found a sweet spot for my ears at least.
I basically lowered them to the lowest point where the strings are sounding articulate enough.
Lower down the sharp sounds of the bridge and the sound of my guitarpick is coming in too much.
The bridge pickup is at 3mm height from the 1st string and 4,75mm from the 6th.
The neck PU is at 4mm at the 1st string, and equally at 4.75mm at the 6th.
I can hear the acoustic character of the guitar much more now; I'm very pleased with the sound in fact.
Curious about the distance of your picjkups on your AV '64s.

About the sitar-effect; I learned that it's the bridge indeed, not the nut.
I turned one saddle and now its the 1st string that gives a strange sitar-effect, nit the second anymore. :fp:
However, it's only clear when I play the open string hard.
When I play more subtle, it isn't there all that much.
I decided to play more subtle from now on rather than change the saddle. ;D

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Re: NGD: AV64 Tele

Post by MattK » Sat Dec 09, 2017 7:47 pm

Get some really fine grit wet/dry paper (like 1200 grit or 800 if you can't find that), fold a piece and dab a drop of oil on it - run a few strokes over where the string sits on the saddle, should fix it.

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Re: NGD: AV64 Tele

Post by otis » Sun Dec 10, 2017 2:43 am

thanks Matthew, I'll give it a try.

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