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Summary of Contents for Jaen Siracusa 15E
- Page 1 MAN.SE.V1.1 - Feb. 2022...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
CONTENTS 3 ⚠ CARE MAINTENANCE Changing Strings Adjusting the Bridge Height Adjusting the Compensation Adjusting the Truss Rod Tension Adjusting the Pickup-String Clearance Electric Controls Anti-Feedback Plug Specifications... -
Page 5: Care
CARE The Siracusa family has a very light construction, with very thin plates that can be easily damaged. This is not a conventional archtop with plates that triple the thickness, virtually indestructible. In fact, you could open a ⚠ ⚠ hole on some places of the top by simply pressing hard with your finger. - Page 6 Try to clean the strings after use with a dry clean cloth. Avoid the contact with alcoholic beverages. If it happens sometime, absorb them with a dry cloth without rubbing. Connect your instrument only to reliable equipment that have a ...
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Page 7: Maintenance
MAINTENANCE Changing Strings You should do this… Whenever the strings don’t sound bright, are worn or dirty or have tuning problems in certain areas of the fretboard. Necessary tools and materials: Pliers and strings. Method: Loosen one string. To untie it from the machines and the tailpiece, ... -
Page 8: Adjusting The Bridge Height
Adjusting the Bridge Height You should do this… Whenever there are buzzes in wide areas of the fretboard. The height may be lowered if the action is too high and there are no buzzes. Necessary tools: Small Hex (Allen) key, supplied with the guitar. Method: Depending on the problem affecting more the bass strings than the treble... -
Page 9: Adjusting The Compensation
Adjusting the Compensation This procedure must be performed so that all the notes and their octaves sound reasonably in unison, independent from their position on the fretboard. A guitar that is not well compensated can be especially unpleasant when playing chords that mix notes fingered in high frets with open strings. - Page 10 bridge will have to be moved closer to the tailpiece. Otherwise, move it further away from the tailpiece (see drawing). Check the same for the fifth string, but this time try to move only the bass side of the bridge, as you should not modify its position for the string that you adjusted first.
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Page 11: Adjusting The Truss Rod Tension
Adjusting the Truss Rod Tension You should do this… When there are buzzes but the action is high. This has three main probable causes: - Change of the tension exerted on the neck, usually following the change of the string gauge or alternate tunings. - Wood adaptation to the strings/truss rod tension and compression forces. - Page 12 If the gauge doesn’t fit, turn the adjustment nut with the large Allen key, counter-clockwise as seen from the peghead end, an eighth of a turn or less (see drawing). Wait until the following day, then adjust the height of the bridge (Page 6) and repeat the process.
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Page 13: Adjusting The Pickup-String Clearance
Adjusting the Pickup-String Clearance You should do this… When you notice that the amplified sound of a string or group of strings is louder or weaker than the others, or when the output of a pickup is too high or too low. Necessary tools: You will need a small Hex (Allen) key, supplied with the guitar. - Page 14 Bronze wound strings have a fantastic acoustic tone, but their volume is quite low when used with magnetic pickups. The plain strings in the set (usually the first and second) will have a much higher volume, resulting in a very strong imbalance. The logical way to correct this problem is to raise the polepieces of the wound strings and lower the polepieces of the plain strings, trying to equalize their output.
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Page 15: Use
Electric Controls All the controls are located at the pickguard: Neck Pickup Volume Pot Mid Pickup Volume Pot Bridge Pickup Volume Pot Tone Pot Pickup Switch... - Page 16 This guitar is different to most others two-pickup guitars in the market, perhaps unique as far as I know. The similarities are many when you select the neck or bridge pickup with the pickup switch, except that you only have a common tone knob for those.
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Page 17: Anti-Feedback Plug
Anti-Feedback Plug All Siracusa guitars have a very responsive soundbox, prone to feedback easily in high volume situations. The anti-feedback plug is a device, included with all Siracusa guitars since 01/2022, that can be pressed gently into the soundhole, closing the soundbox and raising the feedback threshold. -
Page 19: Specifications
Specifications Variable Materials: Wood: Usually Maple and Spruce for the soundbox and Maple for the neck. The fretboard, peghead face, bridge and tailpiece are usually made of Ebony. The pickguard skin is made of Ziricote most times (its core is always carbon), and the pickups are usually made of Ziricote or Ebony. - Page 20 Guitarras Jaén - Fernando A. Jaén Ctra. De Pozorrubio, 92 16410 Horcajo de Santiago (Cuenca) SPAIN www.guitarrasjaen.com jaen@guitarrasjaen.com Tel: +34 620791064...