more string help

Pmutch · #1 01-25-2003, 10:09 AM

I don't know what scale my 4 string is. It has 20 frets tho... SOMEONE HELP!!!!!!!!!

Flatwound · #2 01-25-2003, 10:41 AM

Measure from the nut to the twelfth fret, and multiply by two. The result is your scale length.

Pmutch · #3 01-25-2003, 10:46 AM

its like 17 in so that'd be 34. what scale is that?

Flatwound · #4 01-25-2003, 02:29 PM

34" is standard long scale. Other scale lengths commonly encountered are extra-long which is 35" or more and normally found on 5+ string basses, and the short scales of 32" (not that common) and 30".

Pmutch · #5 01-26-2003, 10:06 PM

Tho when I measured it seamed to be a lil over 17 it was 17 and a ¼ of inch. Does that make any difference?

mrcrowUK · #6 02-02-2003, 08:59 AM

i think your bass is 34"
and you will need just standard strings...long scale
good sig on the above post
give P's a chance
like it

ramip · #7 02-02-2003, 09:45 AM

did i have to take it to the start of the fret or the end
In my bass its 15 3/4 to the start of the fret
I am shorty?

mrcrowUK · #8 02-08-2003, 08:45 AM

sounds like a 32"
remember scale lengths are nominal
some makes use 33 1/3 and 33 3/4 but are still called 34" long scale
i think yours will fall into the 32" band??