How to stop fret buzz on an electric guitar?
I’m not playing through and amp at the moment because I have no cable (it should get here soon though). It’s way out of tune (and I can’t tune it till i get the cable) because I tried changing the height of the tailpiece, which didn’t work too well and took ages to get back down. There’s still fret buzz after the 12th fret on the E,A, D and G strings. How can I stop this? I tightened the strings and the fret buzz was reduced, but is still there. ANy ideas on how to fix it? thanks 
First off, you shouldn’t adjust your guitar without having it in tune first. If the strings are buzzing and you haven’t tuned the guitar it could be the strings are just loose. Don’t just tighten them though, you have to get them in tune.
After you tune the guitar properly, if they’re still buzzing you should have a look at a few things before you just start raising and lowering the bridge (not the tailpiece) or cranking the truss rod around (tightening the neck as one person referred to it). Be very careful taking advice on this site!
If you really have no clue what you’re doing, take your guitar to a good music store with a skilled guitar tech and have them do a setup for you for about $30. It’s way better than ruining your guitar because somebody on Yahoo told you to tighten the neck.
If you do want to do your own setup, go Google “guitar setup” and do some reading on the subject first. They’ll tell you how to check the height of the strings (action) and the bow of the neck before you just go screwing things in and out on your guitar. You might also want to spend some time reading about setting the intonation. That’s something else a lot of guitarists never really learn how to do properly.
But wait until you can tune it properly before you do anything else to it.
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