Players... How do you get a clean sound when just hitting top or middle string and sliding the bottom?  Everytime I try to add an open string before or after I slide, I get that darned string buzz!  It happens on fretless and fretted guitars.  It's hard to get a cool delta blues sound when string buzz is giving me the blues!!!  It almost sounds like the sound you'd get when a string isn't tight and it seems to "rattle" a bit.  Suggestions?

 

I thank you, and so do the people hearing me practice!

Rick

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Yep. Wound strings give you that "grind" tone that many people are looking for. A heavy Stevens bar will rest right on the strings just right, whereas a bottleneck, Coricidin bottle, or copper or thin walled stainless steel will require a little bit of finger pressure.

the easiest way to fix the problem is to stop using a slide. its what i did, but it sounds to me like you want to play slide, so yeah get a heavier slide, play with it in your lap, and as always practice practice and then when you think youve had enough practice, practice some more. and remember you will always have a little bit of noise

Dampening the string with your finger or killing the bee before you start recording...

(Sorry dont kill bees we need them!!)

Isn't this why we need a truss rod?

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