Deserted the adjective is a form of desert the noun. This is how oxymorons are born.
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Is your bass always in tune?
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Don't overthink it. The bar for creating an oxymoron is fairly low.
I was waiting to see how long it took before the fretless police stepped in.
Equal temperment mentioned by post 53.
Equal temperment mentioned by post 53.
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My bass is always in tune. But with me being a fretless player, I cannot make the same claim for myself. I'm not sure how equal my temperament is either, or my temperature or that matter...
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You can damage your brain by underthinking, something to do with square waves.
Carvin / Kiesel bass of mine is extremely stable..even in the harsh NY winters...only time it goes out of tune is when the tuners get accidently hit....putting it in the case or something slight...but overall super stable..I had an Ibanez that was pretty stable too...rarely went out of tune.
Unfortunately, this type of thread is a lot like the ones where everyone claims none of their basses have any dead-spots.I just find it amazing that the majority of the basses here don't go out of tune in the slightest over many months or years. My basses change tune depending on if the strings are cold, or warmed up when I'm playing. I'm not talking about my neck moving, but tweaking the tuning a touch to keep them perfectly in tune.
This really hits me as odd. Well, I guess I learn something new every day here on talk bass.I would have figured I was in the majority having to tune my basses before and during gigs.
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Tuning on both my basses (Wal & Warwick) is pretty stable. But I do check before playing
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If Zen were a wave, I feel it would be sinusoidal...
Until someone looked at the cat, of course.
I had a MM Stringray5 that has a one piece neck. It went out of tune fairly regularly especially with the hugh humidity changes in the summer time here in the mid Atlantic. I currently have a Spector Euro5LX which is a 5 piece laminate neck through. I don't think the neck through has anything to do with it but it might. What do I know. But I do think the multi-laminate neck does. The Spector does go out of tune occasionally but not nearly as much as my SR5 did. Friday night at our out door gig it was 90 degrees with 80% humidity. Then it cool off quite a bit and dried up some and the Spector went just ever so slightly flat. Now I'm pretty picky. If my tuner shows the center green light and one red light lite up on either side I consider that out of tune.
My ATK305? Never. Like a rock. The Pentabuzz? Every time I take it out of the case I have to tune every single string. The Fodera, usually just the B string needs a slight retune. Still, not a big deal.
t-40 never have to tune
t-45 never have to tune
patriot--a bit--d string
p--usually all strings a minor bit
mim j-usually all strings a minor bit
vm mod squier jazz with roto flat monels on it? ---usually quite a bit---thinking about lower tension flats due to this
t-45 never have to tune
patriot--a bit--d string
p--usually all strings a minor bit
mim j-usually all strings a minor bit
vm mod squier jazz with roto flat monels on it? ---usually quite a bit---thinking about lower tension flats due to this
