Guitar Setup & Maintenance

How To Set Up an Electric Guitar Properly

Ever wanted to know how to setup your guitar professionally? You may be interested in this guide if you are having trouble getting your guitar to tune properly and consistently all the way along the neck, if you are having problems retaining your tuning while you are using your tremolo, getting your string height right without sacrificing sound and string volume – or you may be having other guitar setup issues you want to fix or improve.

First off for strat users – this is a great guide I found on how to specifically keep a Fender Stratocaster guitar tremolo system perfectly in tune. He says: Luthier Galeazzo Frudua reveals how to keep a vintage 6 screws tremolo in perfect tune even under the hardest whammy bar use.

Here’s another that explains the reasons why guitars tend to go out of tune if you didn’t know already and will help you understand what’s going wrong and why electric guitars go out of tune in the first place. He says: In this lesson I go over the biggest reason why your guitar keeps guitar out of tune and how to help prevent that in the future.

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