Interesting Website: Plek.com

Thought you guys might be interested in checking out this website:


http://www.plek.com/en_US/technik/in...ith-gerd-anke/

Apparently there is a shop in Sydney with a Plek - might be worth a Saturday wander down to Annandale.

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$279-$299 for a Plek Set Up.

Interesting stuff.. But, its just another machine that allows badly trained techs/ shop assistants to mess with something they don't have any knowledge about... Sarcasm intended :p
I always ask my customers if they are a heavy or light handed player, this gives me an idea on how to setup their Guitar.
Then I do the final adjustments when they pick the Guitar up.

Learned this the hard way, I always set my personal Bass Guitars with a low action as I am a light fingered player... Not so good for those heathen sinners that play with a pick!

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Originally Posted by dingobass

Learned this the hard way, I always set my personal Bass Guitars with a low action as I am a light fingered player... Not so good for those heathen sinners that play with a pick!

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Agreed, originally I had the action on my bass as low as it could go, but I have also realised that a higher action just sounds better in terms of tone, as if there's more coming from me than the bass itself which is pretty neat, dunno if its just a placebo or not but eh, I'm not fussed, I like the slightly higher action!

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Originally Posted by keloooe

Agreed, originally I had the action on my bass as low as it could go, but I have also realised that a higher action just sounds better in terms of tone, as if there's more coming from me than the bass itself which is pretty neat, dunno if its just a placebo or not but eh, I'm not fussed, I like the slightly higher action!

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we are all very different . I like as low as I can go without buzz

After having owned a mid 1970's Ric 4001S it was one of the best low actions I have ever encontered on a Bass and it didn't matter whether you used fingers or a pick. God how I miss that Bass. The things you do when money gets tight and live to regret many years later.

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Originally Posted by jarrod

we are all very different . I like as low as I can go without buzz

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On guitars most definitely as low as you can go with no buzz!

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Originally Posted by jarrod

we are all very different . I like as low as I can go without buzz

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Hey Jrod, unlike the guitar salesman that said fret buzz on a $5k guitar is normal bwhahahahhahaahha

I'm the same action on a guitar as low as possible with no fret buzz and bass can be a bit higher for tone

Since I have small hands, I'm predominantly right-handed (I pic with my right hand), and my left hand (which I fret with) is not that strong, I tend to try and get the action on my guitars as low as I can get them without buzzing, if I play a guitar with a high action I find that it starts hurting between my left-hand thumb and forefinger my muscles tense up and I have to stop playing.


At one point I thought I had something called Carpal Tunnel Syndrome because my left wrist felt very sore everytime I flexed my wrist joint.

I know of luthiers in Sydney and Melbourne who are making a small fortune undoing the damage caused by the Plek machines in those respective cities.