why does my fender telecaster buzz?

Question

for some reason my b and g string buzz with the g buzzing more than the other. its so annoying because when i play with them my playing sounds sloppy and irritating. Its not a squire its an actual fender and i ve been having this problem for a while now. should i just change strings??

Answer 1

Could be fret buzz. This is (usually) caused by the strings being to close to the frets. You, say, press the g on the 3rd fret, but since the action is so low, the vibration of the string is enough to hit the fret bars on the 4th and maybe 5th frets causing a buzz.

You can raise the action if you feel coomfortable working on your guitar. If not a local shop should be able to correct the problems. If it is new, bring it back .

Answer 2

What is probably happening is: the string is vibrating against the actual fret. The strings are too low to the finger board, and you need to adjust your "action". This is painstaking at first, but after you figure it out, you can customize the feel or you guitar to suit your playing.
Start with the strings you like, and experiment with the following adjustments:
at the top of the neck, just above the "nut" there's an allen bolt which runs the entire length of the neck that adjusts the angle of the neck against the guitar body, as the neck goes inward, towards the body, the strings will raise off the fingerboard, especially in the middle, and vice versa.
Opposite the nut, the strings are resting on "saddles" these are equipped (on a tele) with little allen screws that will raise and lower the strings away or towards the fingerboard, especially at the higher frets.
Lastly, again at the saddles, there's a fine tuning screw, at the back end of the saddle, parralell with the strings. This is time consuming, but ultimately worth making your guitar in tune with itself, and have a feel beneficial to your playing style.
What I usually do is tune the string as accurately as possible, (invest in a high-dollar tuner as well a cheap, quick) and then tune it again at the 12th fret , making sure I get exactly twice the WPS (waves per second) or the same note. If your string is a little sharp at the 12th fret, you have to take in the saddle (by scwrewing inward), increasing the distance between the 12th fret and the saddle, thus lowering it's pitch. AND VICE VERSA!
I know this is a pretty detailed answer, but it's nice to take the time a really make a guitar feel like yours. If you play a lot of rhythm barre and power chords, you might want the string a little further away from the neck, giving the action a tighter feeling. If your emphasis is on leads, solos, and faster single string playing, you'll want the string nice and close to the neck.

Answer 3

You may want to start by adjusting the saddles on your bridge. Try raising them up a bit - maybe a half-turn each. You'll need an allen wrench/hex wrench to do this. Replacing the strings *may* help, but I'd go with bridge adjustments first.

What I would not do is mess with your truss rod, as most people don't know how to do this properly, and as it is, it probably isn't the cause. If you can't fix it on your own, bring it in to your local shop and have it checked out.

Answer 4

Try changing strings first. If that doesnt work it could be a number of things. if you dont feel comfortable working on your guitar yourself bring it to get repaired just make sure you tell them what you want done. otherwise they fix and set up everything on your guitar whether or not it needs to be fixed.

P.S. (to the last guy that responded) There is no such thing as waves per second you probably mean cycle per second (cps) or more commonly use Hertz (Hz) 1 Hz is one cycle per second. Sorry, i dont mean to be a no-it-all, but i'm incredibly anal about these things.

Answer 5

Lotsa issues reason this noise. Your guitar is purely too intense priced to might want to take care of this. a foul device cable may reason interference. So can a foul floor. if your electical outlet wouldn't have a "actual" middle prong-hollow (many do not quite ones in older residences, that were switched to three prong, in spite of the undeniable fact that the recepticle for the third prong isn't proper finished), that ought to also reason noise. Telecasters commonly have irritable unmarried-coil %.-ups. tremendous for that unmarried-coil sound, undesirable for interference. ought to easily be the flamboyant guitar.