Fret noise anyone?

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OldTelecasterMan

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A few weeks back a live recording was made of my band. The guy used one of those high end funky digital recorders with what looked like ears sticking out of the sides. Well the recording sounds pretty good except for annoying fret noise coming from my guitar. So is it the guitar or the amp? Anyone else have an issue with fret noise? I'm a pretty articulate player and this is troublesome.

If someone else has experienced this, what did you do to alleviate the problem?
 
I doubt fret noise comes through in your line playing. Probably when you change position?
I had such problem everytime when it was the time for me in the song to stop playing completely, ie a pause, the short period between changing board position or fretting a new chord or the even shorter period between releasing one note/ fret and playing the next in a line passage.
What I do now is dampen the strings with both hands and hit mute on the switch when I'm not supposed to be playing. When I'm playing I try and dampen with my picking hand like people do during fast picking shred passages, aka muting.
A way to tackle this is practice with an acoustic or with the electric in high gain to spot the problem and then try to eliminate it. the way for me was using ch.3 and be cautious about right hand muting and how I release my fingers after fretting a string.
I had to do that after I listened to a recording of mine and realised how noisy I was when I was not playing. This was sympathetic noise when I was changing positions or when I was leading in towards a pause. Although at this stage I was a decent player, I had never spent much time practicing using dirt, or using an amp even, and of course practicing at home means you can't crank the amp to volumes which allow every tiny noise to become noticeable.
so I'd guess you somehow need to recreate the conditions which will allow such problems to come through in practice-friendly volumes and then tackle them.
 
Ok. So I hate to date myself but have been playing 40 plus years and in my old age i do tend to not like to change things. My current main guitar has been doing a fine job every night. The Mark V is a new addition and like everything else i just start using new equipment when i get it. The guitar was the issue but only because the Mark V is sooo sensitive. With my other amps if i picked a bit hard the fret noise was barely audible and only for a very short time right after the note was played. So I raised the strings a bit and the fret noise is gone. I think I'll have the neck gone over and possibly have the frets dressed. I am really hard on frets, strings, well guitars in general and i have about 6 years on this guitar. So about 300+ working nights, then practicing and band rehearsals are on the guitar. I noticed l have quite a few flat spots on frets in my favorite areas of the neck.

I guess the maintenance is overdue. The string hight now is a bit more than I like and playing on them for 4 hours would not be much fun but the fret noise is gone.
 

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