35" scale length + Fretless + You = ?

[Swimming Bird]

I have large-ish hands, so 35" + Fretless + me = A OK. The ability to lower your action further without buzz more than makes up for the added difficulty of intonation.

However, I'll have my cake and eat it too: my six-string fretless is a faux 36" scale. It has an extender after the bridge which basically gives it the same taughtness (and ridiculously low action) as a 36", but on a 34" scale neck.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

However, I'll have my cake and eat it too: my six-string fretless is a faux 36" scale. It has an extender after the bridge which basically gives it the same taughtness (and ridiculously low action) as a 36", but on a 34" scale neck.

Anything after the breaking point of the nut or bridge has absolutely no affect on tension. It may change the perceived "feel" of the string, but it is no more taught.

 

[Baryonyx]

I have large-ish hands, so 35" + Fretless + me = A OK. The ability to lower your action further without buzz more than makes up for the added difficulty of intonation.

I've got large hands too. When people say they like short scale basses, people instantly assume you have small hands. I mean, I'm no stanley Clarke, it's jsut the tension the 35" sale basses produces that I hate!

 

[jonly]

35" scale length + Fretless + You = A trip to the pawn shop to trade it for something shorter with frets.

 

[Pickebass]

I have a 35" scale fretless and this is the only fretless bass that I have kept because it is easy to play in tune around the 10th fret and above (to 24th).

 

[Bassmanbob]

Anything after the breaking point of the nut or bridge has absolutely no affect on tension. It may change the perceived "feel" of the string, but it is no more taught.

Yeah. What he said. It's simple physics.

 

[katri]

35" scale length + Fretless + You = terrible intonation
well honestly
Fretless + Me = terrible intonation
i wish i could play fretless
dan

 

[rdmjazz]

I've been playing 34" scale too long I guess. I have a Lakland 55-02 fretless that I rarely play because I don't like the 35" scale. I find when reading tunes I have to pay attention, with 34" I'm on auto pilot. I don't want to think about the adjustment while playing. I would like to try an F Bass fretless to see how the 34.5" scale is. They sure have a sweet sound from what I've heard.

 

[Brad Johnson]

Do you prefer & own a fretless bass with more than 34" scale length? Why?

Yes, because I got them second hand. I have no problem with them and rarely think about scale length. I go between 34, 34 5/8 and 35 inch fretlesses.

I have ridiculously low action on all of my fretlesses

 

[Nick Ioannucci]

my fretless is 42.5" scale

 

[Tumbao]

my fretless is 42.5" scale

Yeah!

 

[Lolobass]

Hi
I prefere really 35" on a fretless.... Just for the sound !!!
Laurent.

 

[fretlessspence]

35" scale for me, also by default. Picked up my elrick used. Wouldn't change a thing, except for the Barts.

 

[James Hart]

I have an unlined 34" fretlessand a couple of fretted 34's...I don't do 35".

what he said! All my basses are 34" because that is all I will buy. I don't like what the extra length does to the higher strings.