DoubleBoogie
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I was hoping someone could give me some ideas. I have a Fender custom shop Artisan Strat. Something is going on with it that I can’t figure out. I’ve checked the intonation and it seems to me to be very close to perfect. There are no issues playing regular fretted notes all the way up the neck. The problem appears when I bend a string up and then play a normal fretted note. In my case, when I play in the key of E and hit the g string fretted at the 11th fret and bend it up a whole step and then fret the b string at the 12th fret and play it while holding the bend, it is WAY flat. If I just play the b string by itself at the 12th fret, it is back on pitch. If I do something similar bending the b string and then playing a note on the e string while the note is still bent, the pitch is fine. I have no idea what to think about this. I first thought it was the tremelo moving to create the problem, but I would have thought it would also show up on other bent strings. I’m out of ideas on this one...:hmm. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!