Changing your strings, Standard tuning – Peavey humbucker model User Manual

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Changing Your Strings

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Unless you are reconditioning your fretboard (see care and
cleaning), strings should be changed one at a time to main-
tain proper neck tension. New strings should be free of de-
fects (twists, kinks, bends) that can cause sound irregularities
or breakage. All strings must be stretched upon installation.
After your first tuning, carefully pull each string away from the
fretboard, stretching it gently (too much force will break thinner
strings). Then, retune your guitar.

Peavey recommends that you replace strings in the same
gauges to maintain proper neck and/or tremolo tension. If you
wish to change strings with different gauges, Peavey recom-
mends that you enlist the services of a qualified technician to
make the required truss rod and/or tremolo adjustments on
your instrument.

Some Peavey guitars feature ACM® (page 1) or double-locking
tremolos (page 1).

Standard Tuning

(6th string is the heavey topmost string)

Open note

E A D G B E

String

6 5 4 3 2 1

Mnemonic memory aid for string tun-

ing (Beginning with the 6th string):

Eddie Ate Dynamite. Good Bye Eddie.

Quick Tips

To change intonation, adjust saddles.

To align tremolo in relation to the

body, adjust spring tension.

To change string action (height),

adjust tremolo studs.

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