zerolight
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It’s not a fret issue. People all through this thread have highlighted that dead spots are not a setup or fret issue but a resonance issue. You can press the headstock against a wall which changes the resonance in the guitar and the note will ring out fine. You can drop tune a whole step and the dead spot will move two frets up.
Here’s a video from a bassist showing what a dead spot is.
and here's one on a Strat
It's a shame that they don't demonstrate that bending into the note or playing it elsewhere on the neck has the same issue. In fact mine is worse at the 16th G string than it is on 12th B.
It's just the way the wood resonates in a particular guitar that causes it. My Santana is very resonant.
Here’s a video from a bassist showing what a dead spot is.
and here's one on a Strat
It's a shame that they don't demonstrate that bending into the note or playing it elsewhere on the neck has the same issue. In fact mine is worse at the 16th G string than it is on 12th B.
It's just the way the wood resonates in a particular guitar that causes it. My Santana is very resonant.