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11-28-2010, 02:08 PM
| | | | Addaptation to different size basses
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I have 3 different fivers with different neck sizes
A tobias growler with 17 mm
A stingray with 17.5 mm
A fender roscoe beck with 19 mm
The fender was the last bass I bought and it is my regular bass for gigging, rehearsing and recording. I was difficult at first to play it because it is wider but then I love that size and the tension it gets. It is a bass to groove and it can get different dynamics easily.
The growler on the contrary is a bass for kids comparing it to the fender. It feels strange now to play it and I can get less dynamics from it. It has great tone but way more compressed and modern.
What is your experience??
Do you have different size basses??
Can you play them confortable if you change basses regularly?? |
11-28-2010, 02:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | Not only different neck widths, but scales. 35", 34", 18" (Ashbory), four and five strings, fretted and fretless, 7.25", 10", flat, and compound radius necks, etc. That doesn't even include the different guitar necks. Just play 'em m, don't let your mind tell you that it's a problem, and it won't BE a problem.
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11-28-2010, 02:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JTE  Just play 'em m, don't let your mind tell you that it's a problem, and it won't BE a problem. | +1 |
11-28-2010, 02:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: San Franciso Bay Area | | | It takes me a couple of minutes to acclimate, but no problems after that. Same with going from 4 strings to 5.
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11-28-2010, 03:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Wilkes-Barre, PA | | | Ive got a 4 with a 1.5" nut, a 4 with a 1.65" (I believe) nut, a 5 with I think a 1.8" nut or there about, and three different guitars with slightly different feeling necks. I can easy pick any of them up and play with no problem.
Now when I only had a bass with a wide nut for a few years, then yea it was hard to acclimate, but now switching regularly it's not an issue at all |
11-29-2010, 10:07 AM
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11-29-2010, 10:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Music_for_life Any more? | No, just play the dang things. |
11-29-2010, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by spade2you No, just play the dang things. | Any more? |
11-29-2010, 11:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Music_for_life Any more? | There are more than a "few" here who pick apart almost any given bass. Are you sure you want that sort of advice? |
11-29-2010, 11:11 AM
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Endorsing Artist: J.C. Basses | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Phoenix, Arizona 85029 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by audiomitch It takes me a couple of minutes to acclimate, but no problems after that. Same with going from 4 strings to 5. | This, except with 4/6/8-strings.
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11-29-2010, 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by spade2you There are more than a "few" here who pick apart almost any given bass. Are you sure you want that sort of advice? | If so I want to know wich size they like and why...not bigger better here |
11-29-2010, 01:17 PM
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Endorsing Artist: J.C. Basses | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Phoenix, Arizona 85029 | | | My preferences:
34" scale, 4 strings, 17.5mm spacing (bridge), 12" radius, 12mm spacing (nut)
35" scale, 6 strings, 16.5mm spacing (bridge), compound radius, 10mm spacing (nut)
35" scale, 8 strings, 16.5mm spacing (bridge), no radius, 10mm spacing (nut)
Why? Because I like narrower spacing, more strings, and 35" scales.
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Originally Posted by McThumpenstein I don't think the wife would buy the "I need to take off this knob and put a whole new bass under it" story. | |
11-29-2010, 01:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Kunsan AB, South Korea | | | Going from my Yamaha TRB-JP to my Carvin LB76 is quite a difference in spacing. No problems with the adjustment, though. The 35'' scale used to through me off a tad very early on, reaching for the low C on my Modulus but it's effortless now. |
11-29-2010, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by FunkMetalBass My preferences:
34" scale, 4 strings, 17.5mm spacing (bridge), 12" radius, 12mm spacing (nut)
35" scale, 6 strings, 16.5mm spacing (bridge), compound radius, 10mm spacing (nut)
35" scale, 8 strings, 16.5mm spacing (bridge), no radius, 10mm spacing (nut)
Why? Because I like narrower spacing, more strings, and 35" scales. | Wich brand is the 6 string bass?? 16.5 seems really tight...I need a picture of that | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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