Maximising Your Guitar’s Potential
The folks over at Sales to Business have published an article on maximising your guitar’s potential – a.k.a. setting it up correctly for playability and tone.
What is ‘guitar setup’? Basically it means to have the specifications adjusted to the actual factory standards or your personal specs. Simply put, a set-up includes:
#1. adjusting the height of the strings over the neck
#2. making sure your frets are level or the same height all the way up the neck
#3. intonation
#4. adjust and lubricated all remaining components, in general.
Interestingly, they claim that Fenders and Squiers seem to be the best-set up guitars straight out of the factory; but it is worth getting it set up anyway by a professional luthier. What has your experience been like? Do you pay someone to set up your guitar, or do you prefer to do it yourself?
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