5 Tips for your first Setup | Guitar Tech Tips | Thomann

You just started playing and want to get a kickstart on how to make your guitar play and feel better? Kris has got you covered with his Top 5 Tips for your first guitar setup!

Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 Hello
0:14 What we are doing today
0:42 #1: Neck Setup
2:15 #2: Bridge Saddles
2:57 #3: Intonation Setup
3:27: #4: Sharp Fret Ends
4:13 #5: Pickup Height
4:48 Time for a testride!
5:22 Goodbye!

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[donlessnau]

Well done Kris. Great, clear, concise presentation.

[johngrimes]

New to this series of vids! LOVE it Kris! Great job! Actually used your VOM ground issue chasing vid earlier today and got everything all dialed in! TY!

[xcodychaosx]

Man I be wanting the tele version in that silver sparkle with the roasted flame maple those things look and sound awesom

[Steven_SK]

Heh! Even I could understand it!! Nice job!

[PooNinja]

How do I set up my Dobro?? The spider rattles bad on one leg and the bridge spider just sits (bolted to) on a floating cone?? do I just string it up and move stuff around by pushing it with a pencil or something till the intonation is close to correct, cause that’s what I did?!?. Do I try to reshape the cone so the rattling leg of the spider makes tighter contact or … I should probably get a book. And learn how to play slide, yea I definitely need a book and probably a teacher, but any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Metal guitars 🤘🏽

[donald-parker]

Maybe a bit beyond your target audience for basic set up, but neck radius can play a big role is setting action (particularly for old Fenders with a neck radius of 7.25 inches - not so much an issue with flatter radiused necks). Its not enough to make sure your string doesn't buzz (beyond what you can tolerate) when straight. If your playing style includes bends, make sure you can do the bends you want to do without "fretting out" before you settle on the action. Also, although you did it, your didn't mention that intonation is best done holding a guitar in a playing position (especially a trem guitar). For that matter, so is saddle height adjustments.

[jeshely]

Nice overview. Also nice sounding pickups. Are those the stock ones?

[claytonvolner]

Could you do a hit the tones on Flicker by Submersed both solo tones are kind of stumping me to be honest

[elton.]

What’s the amp (or device) used in this video? Sick tones with the HB!

[tonyharley]

Truss rod adjustments should be accurate, not eyeballs or based on feel but a feeler gauge and set to a given spec. This then facilitates better results when adjusting the bridge for action which is what sets the feel of a guitar.
Any other way, you're just never gonna get the best out of your setups.

[Snowy]

While I respect your opinion I tend to disagree with using truss rod to adjust action..a lot of new players don't understand that there's a set measurement range of neck relief and they just start cranking the truss rod to lower the action and create a mess...