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midnightsun · 26th December 2006

First of all get someone to show you how to intonate. You really can't hurt anything. The next step is to do your own neck adjustments. I can't imagine not being able to totally set up my guitars and basses. I think that is all part of getting a certain sound-- far more important that whether I have a 500 dollar mic vs a 5000 dollar mic. Adjusting truss rods is not vodoo; but, it is true that you can ruin the neck if you don't understand what you are doing. You can also kill someone else or yourself driving to the grocery store but you do it regularly.

All of the music stores in my community have knowing folks who are happy to teach there customers how to set up guitars. If the customer buys the guitar from the discount house for 30 dollars savings the stores aren't so happy to tutor the newbie.

26th December 2006	#11
midnightsun Lives for gear Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alaska Posts: 1,385	It ain't rock science First of all get someone to show you how to intonate. You really can't hurt anything. The next step is to do your own neck adjustments. I can't imagine not being able to totally set up my guitars and basses. I think that is all part of getting a certain sound-- far more important that whether I have a 500 dollar mic vs a 5000 dollar mic. Adjusting truss rods is not vodoo; but, it is true that you can ruin the neck if you don't understand what you are doing. You can also kill someone else or yourself driving to the grocery store but you do it regularly. All of the music stores in my community have knowing folks who are happy to teach there customers how to set up guitars. If the customer buys the guitar from the discount house for 30 dollars savings the stores aren't so happy to tutor the newbie.