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actually it wasn't the tuning! i think it's the intonation??? that's what it would be if the strings feel, for lack of better words, far too “loose”? like too easy to fret, to the point i can't play them properly. i suspect this has been caused by temperature or humidity

do i just have to adjust the tail Or am i fucked

i have been informed this is not what intonation is. i think both the string tension and the string action are out of whack; the height of the strings above the fretboard seems like it's uneven now, but all are too, uh, not-tense

‪oh intonation is probably part of the problem though, if my ears do not deceive me the strings are no longer in tune with themselves‬

‪“Alonkeys [sic] set 9 parts” acquired, time to larp as a guitar tech!!‬

okay, the neck relief is as it should be, so it's not the truss rod, it's the saddles' height; somehow what should've been a height of close to 1.6mm above the 17th fret was actually closer to 3mm(!) on the bass side, judging by this (admittedly very unsuited to the task) ruler!

thankfully adjusting the block saddles' heights with a 1.5mm hex key is one of the easier things to do!

you'd think that discovering all the ways that a guitar can be adjusted wrong and having to spend a while dealing with them would be dampening my enthusiasm for the guitar, but somehow this is only making me like it more tbh

tfw distracted from guitar adjustment by the fact playing guitar is too goddamn fun

‪currently in the “finding out” part of “fucking around [with the setup of the guitar] and finding out” tragically‬

@hikari I remember the first time I adjusted the nut on my (first) guitar, I seriously thought I had permanently damaged it

@hikari I was so worried I wouldn't find the time/motivation to do regular guitar practice and end up dropping it but so far there's been a significant downtick in time spent on video games because I've been playing around with my stratocaster instead

I mean, it's still early, less than a month has passed, and some days I am so drained of spoons I either don't touch it or only do 5 mins, but yeah, it's a funky little noise thing that makes the good vibes :3

@hikari whatever it is, you're never fucked (unless something breaks or whatever, but that's unlikely to happen when handled with care)

Almost all aspects of how a guitar is set up are adjustable. Maybe in this case the "action" got too low? That's the distance between the strings and the fretboard, how close they are. You can adjust this height at the bridge.

How it works exactly is slightly different on each guitar, but I'm sure YouTube has tutorials aplenty.

@hikari That said, setting up a guitar can be really tricky, so if you're unsure it's not a bad idea to bring it into a shop and have a pro look at it and set it up for you. This is a service all good music stores provide.