AS103NT has too much lower string sustain

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Although I love everything else about my new Ibanez AS103NT, the excessive sustain (resonance)on the lower strings is driving me crazy...to the point where I'll have to sell it if I can't cure the problem. The lower strings, especially 5th and 6th, just won't be quiet. I'm having to constantly damped then with the heel of my palm. I've tried: different strings, pup height adjustment, every imaginable amp setting...nothing has worked. The only thing that has come close is thining out the overall tone (amp and/or guitar tone control) so much that the lower strings are barely picked-up. But then I lose the fat jazz tone that I want, as well. Any suggestions, short of selling it?

― Will Ryder, Sunday, 23 July 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

As the strings age, won't they hit a sort of sweet spot, when their brand-new resonance is gone but before they start to go dead?

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Sunday, 23 July 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Raise the tailpeice.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Monday, 24 July 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

Learn to mute properly. (i.e. the problem isn't the guitar, I'm afraid.)

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 24 July 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

The problem may be the guitar. I've got at least one guitar where the A string resonates an awful lot when the strings are new but then settles down after I've played them out a bit.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 24 July 2006 07:19 (nineteen years ago)

Also, are you using flatwounds?
Because if you're going for a Jazzbox sound, flats are the way to go.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Monday, 24 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

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