Hi all,
I recently bought an SE Paul's guitar, and was curious what it should have been set to at inspection. So far, the issues I'm having seem to indicate no setup was done, or it was handled such by the shop that it's out of whack. Things such as height between strings and pups are not even close to what is published, when perfectly tuned fret 12 is showing heavily out of tune across the board, even the action is higher than it 'should' be. The strings even seem to have been replaced; since I have 10-46's and not 9's that I thought were the default? Um... I guess to ask the questions in a more effective way :
I recently bought an SE Paul's guitar, and was curious what it should have been set to at inspection. So far, the issues I'm having seem to indicate no setup was done, or it was handled such by the shop that it's out of whack. Things such as height between strings and pups are not even close to what is published, when perfectly tuned fret 12 is showing heavily out of tune across the board, even the action is higher than it 'should' be. The strings even seem to have been replaced; since I have 10-46's and not 9's that I thought were the default? Um... I guess to ask the questions in a more effective way :
- For the SE Paul's, what is the factory-spec strings? If they're 9s I imagine I need some sort of setup
- What should the action be at if it was setup at factory?
- String height to Pup? I suspect this is contributing to the really bad sounding neck, as it's just a little over 2/64th on both sides, which doesn't seem right at all.