Has anyone seen anything on the new NS Design EBG? All I have seen is the Premier Guitar pictures. That fretless looks sweet!
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New NS Design 5 String Bass
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Premier Guitars Namm update has pictures, and I also found another picture of Rob Wasserman playing a fretted version. Looks like it has the same bridge and electronics as their Omni Bass.
Very interesting ... I have a NS NXT that I modded to be lefty and I removed the dots ... they have a too confusing disposition and that fretless is the same.
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How did you remove them? I too have an NXT. The 'dots' aren't useful since they aren't even in the 'correct' location.
I drill them and put black dot, I don't see them anymore. Maybe a luthier could put ebony but it would be complicated I think.
If I remember correcly the dot were placed at the right place for intonation but the visual cue wasn't clear.
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Those look pretty cool. I've never been a big fan of the headless thing though. As to the dots ,I don't understand why they would put the dots in a position other than on the note. I sing all the time so I never even look at the front of the bass- just the side dots.
I had a fretless Rickenbacker with no lines that had the front position dots in the exact same position they would be in if it had been a fretted bass...i.e., right in between where the string should be stopped to produce a correctly intonated note & its chromatic neighbor! Infuriatingly stupid imho.
I suspect they did that so they didn't have to create two separate drilling templates for the fingerboard front dots (between fretted & fretless models).
But I would expect NS Design to be a bit more savvy than that, so I doubt that's their reasoning...
Not sure what issues would be causing other NXT owners to find their dots out of tune, but based on the fact that the bridge is basically stationary, they sure ought to be in tune relative to the scale length of the instrument. 
I know mine are, allowing of course for minor adjustments in finger positioning while playing, but that's necessary on any fretless instrument. Perhaps string problems?
I know mine are, allowing of course for minor adjustments in finger positioning while playing, but that's necessary on any fretless instrument. Perhaps string problems?
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I have a couple, including closeups of the headstock. I'll post 'em here in a bit. Interesting tuning mechanism. Works sort of like a Kubicki, but is a string tuner AND clamp all in one. No need for double balls.
Not sure what issues would be causing other NXT owners to find their dots out of tune, but based on the fact that the bridge is basically stationary, they sure ought to be in tune relative to the scale length of the instrument.
In my case they were at the right place for intonation, I just find them confusing since they don,t put a second dot at the 3rd "fret" or at the 9th "fret". It would help ... so I prefer to not have them ... and since I converted my NXT to be lefty well the dots were not useful
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