Having Some Trouble Balancing Out the New Guitar

Well, I just recieved my new Petrucci 6 string Signature in the mail the other day and discover, after getting comfy to try her out for the first, that it's way out of balance. I'm having two of my strings, at the 8th and 19th fret, buzzing out on me. I look at the action and notice how it's already higher than I normall would use so I begin tweeking the truss rod. I'm getting nothing out of it. I was able to get it to work just fine the other night, where no notes were flattening out on me, but when I grabbed it the next day I was back at square one. Keep in mind that this is the first time I have ever had to adjust the truss rod so if I could be missing something, by all means. Anything else I can really tweek with before flushing it down the toilet?

Edited by SpaceMonkey - February 13 2008 at 05:27

After a closer inspection of the guitar I found that both the 14th and 19th fret are closer to the fretboard than the rest. No matter how I adjusted it I could not get it to work correctly. So it was received defective and can hopefully get it replaced. Thanks for the link.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Certif1ed wrote: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/386233/how_to_balance_an_electric_guitar.html   This article is detailed and friendly - hope you get your guitar balanced! A great article ... I finally understood how the truss rod works. Yesterday I "straightened" my guitar following the instructions and it worked ... I now have a low action and still all the strings ring out fine.

Yeah that is a very good article, it explained a few things that even a 300 page book on setting up guitars omitted