Greetings all! Hope all are doing well today.
On Friday 12/4 I received my S2 Vela semi hollowbody from Sweetwater. Left the guitar in both boxes for a full 24 hours to acclimate, Removed the box containing the guitar and let that alone for another 6 hours before I took the guitar out of the box and played it for the first time. The guitar felt no colder than another guitar I have sitting on a stand. Just letting you know I didn't pull the guitar out of the boxes right away.
I love this guitar! Tonally it's everything I've been looking for. Still getting used to the smaller neck but it's working out. I have been playing a 2019 Epiphone SG Pro which has a much wider neck. But it's a great playing guitar.
The action on the Vela was higher than what I'm used to, but i played it for 2 days as is to try and get used to it. Right away I noticed some string/fret buzz on the G string only but it wasn't anything horrible. It wasn't until Monday when I knew I had to lower the action a bit. I'm talking a full turn on each of the saddle screws. Of course, this brought about more string to fret buzz on all the strings but especially on the G, B and high E strings. The necks relief looks very good, but I did loosen the truss rod last night by 1/8 of a turn in an attempt to rid some of the buzz. I have a precision 2x3 inch block from my CNC machining days and I checked to see if there were any high frets. I got no rocking from the gage. So I dare say the frets are level.
Keep in mind that I'm 68 years old and from 1986 to 2013 I worked in CNC machine shops. Lot's of hard and abusive work on my hands. My hands don't hurt, but with all that abuse on my hands (and age) my fingers are feeling a bit stiff these days. So I need a guitar that has action (as they say) that plays like butter. So I had to lower the action to make things easier for me.
I just did a test recording with the Vela versus the SG to see if I could hear that fret buzz coming through from the Vela and I could hear a very slight (very marginal) amount of buzz coming through. Acoustically, you can really hear it but it's not to the point of the notes being choked off and there was no choked notes on the test recording I did.
As said, I love this guitar but I just want to make sure that the amount of string/fret buzz I'm getting won't worsen in time. Any recommendations on how to eliminate most of it if not all? Believe it or not, My Epiphone SG has NO fret/string buzz at all. I've only had to tweak the truss rod one time. So if a $400.00 guitar can play with no string/fret buzz then it seems like a guitar costing much more can do the same and I'm not knocking PRS at all in saying that. Just saying if there is a way to do it then please tell me because I'm really want this guitar to work out for me.
Thanks for your time.
On Friday 12/4 I received my S2 Vela semi hollowbody from Sweetwater. Left the guitar in both boxes for a full 24 hours to acclimate, Removed the box containing the guitar and let that alone for another 6 hours before I took the guitar out of the box and played it for the first time. The guitar felt no colder than another guitar I have sitting on a stand. Just letting you know I didn't pull the guitar out of the boxes right away.
I love this guitar! Tonally it's everything I've been looking for. Still getting used to the smaller neck but it's working out. I have been playing a 2019 Epiphone SG Pro which has a much wider neck. But it's a great playing guitar.
The action on the Vela was higher than what I'm used to, but i played it for 2 days as is to try and get used to it. Right away I noticed some string/fret buzz on the G string only but it wasn't anything horrible. It wasn't until Monday when I knew I had to lower the action a bit. I'm talking a full turn on each of the saddle screws. Of course, this brought about more string to fret buzz on all the strings but especially on the G, B and high E strings. The necks relief looks very good, but I did loosen the truss rod last night by 1/8 of a turn in an attempt to rid some of the buzz. I have a precision 2x3 inch block from my CNC machining days and I checked to see if there were any high frets. I got no rocking from the gage. So I dare say the frets are level.
Keep in mind that I'm 68 years old and from 1986 to 2013 I worked in CNC machine shops. Lot's of hard and abusive work on my hands. My hands don't hurt, but with all that abuse on my hands (and age) my fingers are feeling a bit stiff these days. So I need a guitar that has action (as they say) that plays like butter. So I had to lower the action to make things easier for me.
I just did a test recording with the Vela versus the SG to see if I could hear that fret buzz coming through from the Vela and I could hear a very slight (very marginal) amount of buzz coming through. Acoustically, you can really hear it but it's not to the point of the notes being choked off and there was no choked notes on the test recording I did.
As said, I love this guitar but I just want to make sure that the amount of string/fret buzz I'm getting won't worsen in time. Any recommendations on how to eliminate most of it if not all? Believe it or not, My Epiphone SG has NO fret/string buzz at all. I've only had to tweak the truss rod one time. So if a $400.00 guitar can play with no string/fret buzz then it seems like a guitar costing much more can do the same and I'm not knocking PRS at all in saying that. Just saying if there is a way to do it then please tell me because I'm really want this guitar to work out for me.
Thanks for your time.