While you may not notice this while you play, it does affect your overall tone. There are notes across the fretboard that will cause some open strings to start vibrating. Or pick the open B string hard and see what happens. The chances are you will notice the B string has started vibrating. Now lightly touch each individual strings and pay attention to any that feel like they’re vibrating. Try this: without touching or muting any of the strings, pick the low E string really hard. Have you ever noticed that sometimes if you pick a note, a different string starts vibrating? That’s sympathetic resonance in action. Sympathetic resonance is the fancy way of saying “when something vibrates, something else vibrates as well”. While you may not have heard the term ‘sympathetic resonance’ before, you may have heard it on your guitar. Pickups hum, guitar amps feedback, and strings vibrate when they’re not meant to. Suppressing sympathetic resonance and overtones I’ll explain each way so you can get the most out of any string dampener you buy. There are two ways a string dampener can clean up your playing (even if you use perfect technique). While he may slide this over the strings for some parts of his performance, in that picture it’s still impacting his tone as I’ll explain next. This isn’t as common as studio use, but at some performances, you might notice a string dampener ready to go on the guitar’s headstock.Īs you can see in the above photo, Guthrie Govan usually has a string dampener hanging over his headstock to use as a string dampener.
The other common way guitarists use string dampeners is during live performances. For any parts that don’t use the open strings, string dampeners can significantly reduce the amount of string and fret noise during the recording.Ī tiny amount of string noise can ruin an otherwise perfect take, so a string dampener can be used to keep the strings quiet while you focus on recording the best take possible. The most common way guitarists use string dampeners is in the studio when recording lead parts. There are a few ways guitarists use string dampeners and I’ll go through the different ways to give you an idea whether one would suit you. There are a few different designs, but they all aim to do the same job, keep your guitar nice and quiet. 5.1 Related Guides and Lessons: What are String Dampeners?Ī string dampener is exactly what it sounds like: a device that sits on your fretboard and dampens your strings.
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