Buzzing

[christerguitar]

Hello everyone on this great site!
I recently bought a Ibanez artcore guitar and everything was ,BUT....
somthing in side the body buzzes when i play more tone than single lines...
Anyideas what to do? its an 95 ak dvs

[kawa]

Wire harness touching.

Try from F hall by some lod for wiring conditons.
(next from pup's hall)

[Tom Karol]

Finding the source of a buzz that's not coming from a setup issue (i.e., action too low or not enough neck relief) can be tricky. But here are a few I've experienced:
Wire harness touching something (as Kawa pointed out above): insert a pencil through the lower f-hole and gently move the wires.
Pickup rattling: This sometimes happens to the bridge humbucker on one of my guitars (springs on height adjustment screws rattling?); I gently push down on the bridge side of the pickup, and it goes away.
Tuner(s) not fastened tight enough: gently tighten nut on face of headstock holding tuner in place.
Loose truss rod: Don't really know about this, but I think it could be a possible cause; if you knock softly with your knuckle on the back of the neck, and you can hear a rattle that could be it (but it also could be the loose tuner mentioned above).
That's all I can think of - finding the source of the buzz is the hard part; fixing it usually isn't!

[christerguitar]

Ah thanks when i touched the bridge picup it changes.....but it dosent realy dissapear...hm..
Advice?

Christer

[Tom Karol]

All I can say is to experiment by pushing on things gently.

[cosmic gumbo]

My Ibanez had a buzz from a vibrating toggle shaft in the cheap pick up selector switch. I was afraid there was a bee in my guitar.

[kawa]

Almost of hollow body guitar makes some littel acoustic noise.
Take care at the quiet room.

[asedas]

I have af105f and also have some buzzing inside the instrument. But from my observations - when I don't use humidifier guitar gets dry and buzz sound is stronger. Sometimes it doesn't buzz at all... I don't know where it is, but it's very annoying :/
Once I got my guitar to my luthier and I wanted to show him but... it stopped. When I came home it buzzed again

[backliner]

I have two AF-75's. One has some sympathetic buzz noise, one doesn't.

Even my friend's very expensive Gibson L-4 has all kinds of sympathetic trash buzzing around when played acoustically in a quiet room.

The wiring harness is suspect, but many times the pickup ring springs need to be taped off to shut them up.

My friend's L-4 has very buzzy pots and switches. When he took off all the plastic knobs it changed the frequency range so it wasn't sensitive in the usual range he played.

Hollowbodies can be vibrant and "alive." More of the body shakes than say, a solidbody. These things can sometimes be tracked down and eliminated or controlled.

I think the AF-75 I have that doesn't buzz is because when I changed the front humbucker I pulled some slack out of the wiring in some way that helped.

[kawa]

Originally Posted by asedas

I have af105f and also have some buzzing inside the instrument. But from my observations - when I don't use humidifier guitar gets dry and buzz sound is stronger. Sometimes it doesn't buzz at all... I don't know where it is, but it's very annoying :/
Once I got my guitar to my luthier and I wanted to show him but... it stopped. When I came home it buzzed again

Cause of Temperature and Humidity.
These are normal.
If want the stop, adjustments the wire harness tensions and other points.

[christerguitar]

Oki thanks gently touching the stall pickup chenged the sound but it didnt dissapear, but know i think its dissapeard by pressing a little on the strings behind the stall....guess they were ringing......its quiet know.....so guess it was that....hopefully...lol
Thank guys for all the tips..!

[oldane]

Originally Posted by christerguitar

Oki thanks gently touching the stall pickup chenged the sound but it didnt dissapear, but know i think its dissapeard by pressing a little on the strings behind the stall....guess they were ringing......its quiet know.....so guess it was that....hopefully...lol
Thank guys for all the tips..!

String will often vibrate sympathetically between bridge and tailpiece which can annoying. On some of my guitars I have dampened that length of string by sandwiching the strings between a male and female piece of velcro - but anything can be used.

Strings can also buzz in the tailpiece. It usually stops if you loosen the string in question and move the ball end a bit around in the slot in the tailpiece.

BTW, the length of string behind the fretted note (between the fret and the nut) will also vibrate sympathetically (if they don't, the truss rod is likely overtightened). The once popular George van Eps String Dampener took care of that, but they are very rarely used these days. And finally, the lengths of string on the peghead can also vibrate the same way.

And of course the pickup can also vibrate and buzz in its mount. I once had a guitar where the bridge humbucker buzzed badly and nothing seemed to stop it. I finally pressed a saxophone reed (which tapers) down between the pickup and the mounting ring and broke the surplus off. Though crude, it did the trick and the reed stayed there for years.

[Uli]

I've got the buzzing problem with the neck pickup on my Peavey Rockingham. I once heard that you could solve it by having a luthier filling up the space between the pickup and its frame with wax, but I never tried.

[Socalbill]

Hi,
I've got a 105 and a 75 and have had to chase buzzes out of both. What gauge strings are you using? I was playing 11s and I find that 12s get rid of most of the issues on my guitars. I also dressed the frets and re-crowned and polished them. I have also replaced the tuners on both guitars with better ones. Another buzz maker that is often overlooked is the bridge itself. If the crown peak of whatever bridge you are using is too flat, the string will jump around and sound like a sitar. This is a job for a luthier or someone with some special tools as you have to re-crown the bridge with a skinny gauged file. Just some thoughts, I hope it helps.
Bill