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10-27-2005, 06:57 PM
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Hey guys I'm so curious as to how a DB is compared to an electric bass. I've listened to a lot of recordings so I know the sound differences, but I'm wondering as to how the neck is. For example I play a fretless fender jazz bass and it has 21 fret markings on it, so what is the neck length (octave wise) on a DB? Also do they play in the same vocal range? In other words are DB's deeper than electric basses?
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10-27-2005, 07:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | | The string bass is one octave lower than the electric bass. The number of octaves on mine, from the open G to the end of the fingerboard, is about two and a half octaves. |
10-27-2005, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by PaulCannon The string bass is one octave lower than the electric bass. The number of octaves on mine, from the open G to the end of the fingerboard, is about two and a half octaves. | Whaaa?  The one thing that my DBs and my slabs agree on is tuning; they're tuned identically. |
10-27-2005, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by PaulCannon The string bass is one octave lower than the electric bass. The number of octaves on mine, from the open G to the end of the fingerboard, is about two and a half octaves. | - BG and DB are tuned the same.
- Most double basses have a little over two octaves between the nut and the end of the fingerboard. It would be like having somewhere between 26 and 30 frets on a bass guitar (an estimation).
- MCT, you probably already know this, but the string length for a DB is considerably greater. Mine is 42", whereas my electric bass is 34". It's a big adjustment.
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10-28-2005, 12:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | | Huh. The frequency for the E string on each is 41.3 Hz. Learn something new every day. |
10-29-2005, 12:53 AM
| | | | Thanks guys sooo much. How hard is it to reach the end of the fretboard? |
10-29-2005, 01:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | Depends on how long your arms are. 
To many differences from bass to bass to to have a fixed idea of what is what in the world the the bullfiddle. My bass has 41 7/8” string length [it use to be 43 13/16” but I’ve modded my bass a bit] and the fingerboard is a little over 36”.
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10-29-2005, 01:57 AM
| | |  Well I guess a lot of my questions come from me being a big guy, and a lot of things look big in pictures but then when I touch them look and feel small. I'm not saying I'm huge by any means it's just maybe that the pictures I've seen show smalled guys and I have issues. |
10-29-2005, 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by PaulCannon The string bass is one octave lower than the electric bass. The number of octaves on mine, from the open G to the end of the fingerboard, is about two and a half octaves. | I think you mean they both sound an octave lower than written. |
10-29-2005, 04:09 PM
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Thanks guys sooo much. How hard is it to reach the end of the fretboard?
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10-30-2005, 07:58 AM
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10-31-2005, 08:30 PM
| | | | lol yeah I play a fretless bass and I still call it a fretboard. I meant finger board, and I had a dream where I had a DB. Oh a boy can dream. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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