dead spot

I have an instrument with what upright players call a wolf tone, electric players tend to call a dead spot, that centers on the open A-string. It's basically a secondary vibration that gets activated by that note on that string and causes the instrument to "fight" the vibration of the string...

I've only had my BB424 since the start of the year. The GHS Boomers (45-105, I believe) that came with it sounded fantastic. I was faintly aware of the dead spot, but only when I thought about it. First string change, tried some Rotosound Swing Bass 45-105. Great strings, really vibrant, full...

I was gonna suggest this on the "Dead spot" thread @forrestlaw but it was too long and I didn't wanna hijack it. I don't know where I heard this (maybe TB?) and I have yet to implement the idea but, going along with the concept of adding mass to the headstock, this seems feasible. So, the...

Yesterday I shimmed the neck pocket of my de-fretted Squier VM TB with a Stew Mac .5 degree angled shim. The bridge was bottomed out and I wanted the strings a little lower, so shimming seemed the right answer. While it did fix the issue of the bridge being bottomed out, I now have “dead spots”...

I was playing my only frankenbass (an 85' Peavey Foundation body with a '78 T-40 neck) and it never occurred to me how crisp and loud the G string is. I was hard-pressed to even find an obvious dead spot on the neck. When I compared it to my other basses, the G string was noticeably more...

I’m considering putting some hipshot ultra lites on my telebass. I’ve heard that dead frets are affected by headstock/neck mass, and fat fingers are sold as a solution to this. So would removing mass from the headstock in this way also affect dead spots?

Hello. Ive noticed some issue regarding my Low E string. The 4th fret (G#) sounds dead and weak in comparison to anywhere else on the string. I've tried raising the pickup height, rewinding the string to make sure it's not twisted. Tried different eq settings on the amp etc.. I also did an...