I observe different performances when I use different guitars.
In particular the guitar with the lowest action is the one that triggers false notes (solo + chords) the most.
The highest action is the one that performs better and it’s closer to the intermediate one.
Let me say that there are several differences in hardware spec. All are stratocasters, one American (1989 Strat Plus), one Asian replica (LTD 213) one Mexican (Player). They have Narrow Tall frets, Jumbo Frets and Medium Jumbo frets. Action is high,intermediate, low. The differences are not stellar but tiny in the range of 0.25 mm at the 12th and 17th fret. I test direct into the audio card.
I see Lofileif mastering tapping and I thought lower action is better but is this true? Maybe there’s not a rule but it’s personal… what do you think? Pls share your experience.
Thanks!
Fret buzz will trigger false notes. A little buzz might be acceptable for regular playing but for tracking it will start to mess up things.
Tapping is not a problem on any of my guitar. One of my highest priorities is to see to that I have no fret buzz, and nothing that would impare the delivery of clean ringing notes. I can use fretwapps when I know I have a working setup, just to secure I get less sympathethic resonace from the open strings, but I am using those very seldom today.
I don’t like the jumbo frets myself, because they make ME work harder, and pressing notes harder makes for slower playing. I like to barely touch the strings with both my fretting hand or my picking/plucking hand. Fluidity lies in the lack of force applied for me. But this also changes with what instruments I am playing. If I play a Bass I tend to dig in way harder into the strings for improved sense of timing, as opposed to if I am playing piano or say a flute.
What guitar I am playing matters to a little extent. The Parkers are really good for maintaining a consistent dynamic when switching between picking and tapping, and the alo have relatively low frets. But also, there is a great deal of sustain in those carbon fiber bodies, and that helps too.
And for what it is worth I don’t have especially low action on any guitar. Cleanliness is what matters.
Thanks so much for detailed answer. I have always played out of spec Strat. A little higher compared to Fender support site but really a low difference. How do I set up my Stratocaster® guitar properly? · Customer Self-Service.
They recommend 1.6mm and I am around 2.0mm on the american strat but with Narrow-Tall frets the difference is almost nothing. It might be that the Mexican Strat (prepared by a luthier) is very low, sometimes even lower than specs.
I will take care. First of all no fret buzz.
With Narrow-Tall and Jumbo your fingers never touch the fretboard you actually fly over it but I get your point if you need contact with the fretboard Jumbo frets are not the ones to choose!
It is not so much that I need my fingers to hit the fretboard really, but that in itself is a good gauge for keeping in tune for me. The bigger the distance is to the fretboard, the bigger the chances are to actually press different (pitches) for different occasions. But that has nothing to do with sense of triggering really, but everything with being in tune. So this is probably just a leftover opinion from my playing the MG2 software, where pitchiness affected sense of tracking for real.
So if I am talking about a predilection for a certain kind of frets or radius, it is just from a personal taste perspective, and that should be of very little importance to most I belive. 
I don’t really tap much but use a lot of legato technique. My primary guitar is set with a very low action and I don’t have any particular issues with getting MG3 to do what I want it to do — without any false triggers. Anyway, if the string height were high I’d probably have trouble playing the instrument how I want to, so any improvement in note clarity/intonation would come with a loss of fluidity. It’s always been a balancing act in the world of MIDI guitar.
I’d say to myself stop tampering with Setup and go playing!
A part from jokes, thanks for reply.
I have a guitar that works fine so I will stick to it.
I have no chance in the near term to learn tapping. I am also a legato fan.
With the frets I have got the intonation is very precise and I forgot an important element, I did a re-fret last year so frets are brand new and the Luthier told me how to maintain them as pristine as it can get and it works. The other two guitars exhibit some dents in frets and I think sometime they might be responsible of some buzz that guitar-wise it’s not important but MG3 could pick up.