NVM totally missed the fact it was fanned fret
Is it just me who always thinks the higher notes tend to be louder anyways? I'd be curious to test something like this with the PUs in diferent directions...
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NVM totally missed the fact it was fanned fret
Is it just me who always thinks the higher notes tend to be louder anyways? I'd be curious to test something like this with the PUs in diferent directions...
It sounds like the MS is the way to go. Maybe it’s just my tastes and preferences???
It looks to me like the low & high side are the same distance from the saddles.
Oshi*... totally missed the fact it was fanned fret lol... I need to try one one of these days...
More or less - the pickups are sort of following the fan arc between 24th fret and the bridges, so effectively they are straight.
I don't think they are radically different to play. Go with whichever one you like the look of, especially if you are thinking of modding pickups. The dark poplar burl finish does look very nice though.
Do try one. If only to prove that there is really nothing to adjust between a conventional bass and a multistage bass. I picked it up for a laugh while eyeing up a SR2605 and it just felt so natural and comfortable in went with it
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I'm actually considering having one made custom... I've been toying with the idea of a custom bass for a while, and since I want to go with an F-H-E-A-D tuning, I've thought about getting a long-scale neck, but fanned fret might be more comfortable in this case... I'll definitely try one out before diving in though...
F to H is a tritone, isn't it? Did you mean F#, which would make it all fourths? I have to admit to being slightly amused at the thought of an F#HEAD tuning just because it looks like an insult.
As for fanned fret, I found it a challenge to adjust to the Dingwall 5 and 6 strings I owned, and ended up selling them to stay with 35” parallel fret 5ers and 34” 4s. But, they had a more radical spread: 37” B to 33.5” G. The bridge position and tilt messed with my plucking hand also.
I wanted to try one of those 4-string multi-scale LTDs with the Big Split pickups, but the ones I've investigated were 10 lbs.
Right. In Germany and some other European countries (apparently including Hungary, since that's where Ratanee says he's from), the notes we call B-flat and B-natural are called B and H, respectively. So the chromatic scale, starting from A, goes A B H C, etc. Why that is, I don't know, but it's such a long-established thing that J.S. Bach once used his own name as a motif (B A C H). It works nicely as a way to end a piece in G minor on a Picardy third. I did that once in college; the prof circled the last four notes and wrote "B A C H" next to them to show that he'd noticed.
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all my black ibanezes
all made in japan except for the far right one
all made in japan except for the far right one
