[Wez]

alright fellas

got a bit of a problem, i might sound like comlete idiot but ayway...

basically when im playin me electric and i want to hold a single note for a few seconds it just seems to fade out reall quickly!!! im now gettin to the point where im gonna throw me guitar outta my window!!!

anyone have any ideas on why they fade out so quickly or how i can lt them ring for longer? is it anything to do with me pck-up? maybe me amp settings?

any help MUCH appreciated

Wez

[allthumbs]

Your strings may be too old. Sustain tends too last longer with heavy bodied guitars. My 1800 buck strat rings like a bell when I pick a note. I can feel the neck vibrate. That is a combination of quality hardware and build materials. Sometimes everything goes right in cheaper guitars and you can get an axe that sustains really well. On the other hand, I have a cheap axe that looks great and is sonically dead. It has the sustain of a rock. I am letting more knowledgeable players than I look at it and try to find a fix. A better nut might be one solution. New pups maybe. If worse comes to worse, a sustain-er foot pedal.
Add some finger vibrato to your held note to add sustain.

[Wez]

cheers guitar is only a couple of weeks old, was a cheap piece of tat but was in desperate need of a left handed electric...

i think its time i got some money together and brought sumthin half decent!!! but im not that well prept with me guitar knowledge, so any advise on that?

[Wez]

got a link for the strings you get?

ive been playin around and seem to have fixed the problem, basically i brought a new distortion pedal last week and i seems to have a problem with me amp. It muffles the sound up, if i play an open chord it fades away and crackles up...

so i unplugged the pedal, reset me amp and it sounded lovely!!!

if someone could give me a link for sum nice sexy strings tho that would be great

cheers

[scotty_b]

Hey Wez
Sustain can also come back to your technique, which is a good place to start with altering your sound. Everything else will be built from your fingers.
I have just tried a Fatfinger by Groove Tubes to correct some issues with the neck on my strat. For what it is worth, the strat is an American Strat Plus Deluxe. The neck was broken from the headstock down into the lower frets, and the top E has lost some sustain. The fatfinger seems to have added a lot more sustain - from the gigs I played last night and Friday night.
Maybe that could be helpful?