DRussell21

Hello all, I'm back from my time at Leeds College of Music and currently residing in Cambridgeshire. I have huge amounts of experience with teaching, gigging, recording etc. and welcome any one who would like to learn or brush up on their skills. Any level welcome. [url="http://danrussellbassist.co.uk/"]http://danrussellbassist.co.uk/[/url] PM for C.V or any information! Thanks Dan Russell

Wow!!! Didn't expect a response so quick!!! Thank you all for your time and help. It's truly helped me a lot. I've tried something else since I posted it and it has helped me understand the problem better with collaboration with your suggestions. What i've done is put some nut-shaped thin card on top of the nut and tightened the strings till in standard tuning. It has now raised the nut by around 20 mill and most of the fret buzz has gone apart from a slightly noticeable open D. So after adding another 10 mill to the D string it appears to be fine. The trouble is what do i do now? I'll answer your questions too and see if that helps with figuring out what to do next! @icastle To be honest i did think about the option of selling it so someone else can have the problem (how nice of me hey!) But I just can't. I love it too much. It's such a diverse bass it suits anything i want to play at the end of the day. I've always had a slight problem since i sorted the bass to my preference of neck relief, action and changed to my choice of strings. When i brought the bass it had very high action and a massive bow in the neck. I can only assume the guy who had it before me didn't know how to do these things and ended up filling down the nut instead? @neepheld The idea of using wood veneer might work!! very interested in this. The only problem i have is that if the D string is 10 mill different to the rest of the strings it might play differently still with the veneer on? Is there a specific method of taking off the nut, putting veneer underneath it, glueing etc? @XylemBassGuitar Without sounding rude, I noticed that you said about the six strings and i was wondering if that was a mistake or are your measurements meant for electric guitars? If it was a mistake then the relief with the added card to my nut gives a reading of around 0.3 mill. Without the added card it reads 0.25. So is it safe to say there's nothing drastically wrong with my relief? The action is 0.4 on my E string and 0.45 on my G. Once again, i thank you all for your help and its seriously appreciated Dan

Hello everyone! This is my first post so I do apologise if this is the wrong place. Basically i've had a problem with some serious fret buzz on the first 5 frets the last couple of months. After trying different methods to erase it i.e higher gauges, adjusting the truss-rod both ways and raising the bridge, I think I might of found the reason for the constant struggle. I've found that the nut on my Gibson (http://www.gak.co.uk/en/gibson-les-paul-standard-bass-limited-stocks-heritage-cherry-sunburst/33831) has been slightly filed down by the previous owner. Bugger, Bugger, Bugger. What a bugger. So i've done quite a lot of research and the only nut i can find is here: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GENUINE-EPIPHONE-BASS-GUITAR-TOP-NUT-38mm-x-6mm-_W0QQitemZ370374195550QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=170120048866&rvr_id=170120048866&cguid=5c6b784b12c0a0aad445d5c5fffdc513"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GENUINE-EPIPHONE-BAS...445d5c5fffdc513[/url] As you can see in the nut height and width are slightly different. So, my question is: shall I go ahead and pay for this Epiphone nut although it might not fit properly, or shall i pay for a full service etc with a professional to go over it to see if they can do anything? I'm desperate to sort this so any advice or anything would be great thanks!!! Dan

Hi guys just wanted to see if there's any more bass players playing on The Secret Garden Party Festival in Cambridgeshire and if anyone wants to hook up or watch each others band etc cheers Dan