Hello everyone!
I am new here, since I recently got myself a used Mira SE.
Absolutely loving it so far, but now that it got colder and more moist in my house, all my guitars needed their winterly setup/maintenance.
When I checked the intonation of the Mira, the bottom 3 strings were absolutely perfect, while the top 3 were completely off. The fretted 12th fret and the harmonics are pretty much in line, but my tuner shows they are off by -25 to -50. The intonation gradually gets worse from G to high E.
So I started adjusting the G string and I only got close(!) to having the intonation correct, once I had the saddle maxed out towards the neck. Given that, there isn't any chance of getting the top 2 strings even close to intonating. It almost seems as if the bridge isn't angled enough, which I can't imagine is possible with a mass produced guitar.
- I am using 9's (not fresh, but also not very old)
- reasonably low action (nothing crazy)
- checked neck relief and found that if I set the neck straight/almost straight the open strings choke out on the first string. So I guess the nut is cut too deep? Could that have such a strong effect on intonation, that the whole "double stair-saddle setup" doesn't apply anymore?
- also checked pickup height, just to rule out that they are not causing trouble and found that they were even set lower than factory specs. (Btw: since we are talking humbuckers and their angle is different than the strings, which of the 2 coils do I measure?)
Has anyone had a similar problem before or is there something I am missing? I really think I checked everything and it simply doesn't make sense to me that all 3 high strings want their saddles moved muuuuch closer to the neck than the 3 low strings.
Thank you for any help and advice!
Cheers!
I am new here, since I recently got myself a used Mira SE.
Absolutely loving it so far, but now that it got colder and more moist in my house, all my guitars needed their winterly setup/maintenance.
When I checked the intonation of the Mira, the bottom 3 strings were absolutely perfect, while the top 3 were completely off. The fretted 12th fret and the harmonics are pretty much in line, but my tuner shows they are off by -25 to -50. The intonation gradually gets worse from G to high E.
So I started adjusting the G string and I only got close(!) to having the intonation correct, once I had the saddle maxed out towards the neck. Given that, there isn't any chance of getting the top 2 strings even close to intonating. It almost seems as if the bridge isn't angled enough, which I can't imagine is possible with a mass produced guitar.
- I am using 9's (not fresh, but also not very old)
- reasonably low action (nothing crazy)
- checked neck relief and found that if I set the neck straight/almost straight the open strings choke out on the first string. So I guess the nut is cut too deep? Could that have such a strong effect on intonation, that the whole "double stair-saddle setup" doesn't apply anymore?
- also checked pickup height, just to rule out that they are not causing trouble and found that they were even set lower than factory specs. (Btw: since we are talking humbuckers and their angle is different than the strings, which of the 2 coils do I measure?)
Has anyone had a similar problem before or is there something I am missing? I really think I checked everything and it simply doesn't make sense to me that all 3 high strings want their saddles moved muuuuch closer to the neck than the 3 low strings.
Thank you for any help and advice!
Cheers!
