SE Tremonti Custom - Neck Rattle

[VStratto Music]

Ladies and gentlemen, on this chapter of my PRS troubles, my guitar's neck rattles when I put heavier strings on it, I was using .10s and that works fine but when I try to tune lower, and so adding heavier strings, my neck rattles around the 9th fret area, I have .11s on it now, and I can trigger the most disgusting rattle by playing a chord across all of the harmonics on the 12th fret, the trussrod seems fine, because it's working as intended and responds to any minor adjustment that I do to it. This rattle can also be exaggerated if I put a Tremol-no on the guitar, more resonance = louder guitar = louder rattle, but it's not on. Also as soon as I touch that area & the headstock with the palm of my hand, the rattling stops dead. If I knock with my knuckles on the headstock I can hear the hollow in it, but no rattle. Muting the strings behind the nut has little effect.



Any tips, any input..please?

 

[garrettb]

Make sure the truss rod cover is nice and secure, or try taking it off and see if the problem persists. I've had a couple situations where the cover would vibrate when certain notes were played. Tightening the cover screw cleared it up.

 

[VStratto Music]

Make sure the truss rod cover is nice and secure, or try taking it off and see if the problem persists. I've had a couple situations where the cover would vibrate when certain notes were played. Tightening the cover screw cleared it up.

I took it off, tried and it still rattles, the trussrod right now is something like 0,5mm off the 8th fret with the 1st and last frets pressed, I did it to compensate for the low action a bit, maybe I should straighten up the neck?

 

[VStratto Music]

maybe I should straighten up the neck?

Yep, that did it, but now I have a bit of fret buzz on the first frets, loosened it up again but only half of the way I tightened it, trying to find a sweet spot, that seems to have done it