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The larger margin on the 4th string side?
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Turnaround
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If you mean this -
It's not on purpose. The neck of the bass has shifted in the pocket. Loosen the neck screws a quarter turn and pull the headstock toward the E string side until the strings line up evenly, then retighten the neck screws.
It's not on purpose. The neck of the bass has shifted in the pocket. Loosen the neck screws a quarter turn and pull the headstock toward the E string side until the strings line up evenly, then retighten the neck screws.
Turnaround speaks the truth.
now just think for a moment, think of most pictures we see. They’re all off angle and parallax won’t give us a true look at the state of the neck alignment so I wouldn’t put too much thought into anything odd we see. We need a perfectly straight on shot to see what the true condition is.
now just think for a moment, think of most pictures we see. They’re all off angle and parallax won’t give us a true look at the state of the neck alignment so I wouldn’t put too much thought into anything odd we see. We need a perfectly straight on shot to see what the true condition is.
Really?
I have never experienced that with my bass guitars or seen ones with the larger margin on the 1st string side. (I know some guitar players intentionally have the larger margin on the 1st string side to prevent the string from slipping off the neck.)
Anyway thank you for the post, I appreciate.
Sorry but I'm not good at speaking English... So let me supplement it just in case.
What I meant on the #4 is that I think if it can shift to the bass side, it can also shift to the treble side. However, I have only seen the case where the margin on the bass side is wider. (Of course, many symmetrical bass guitars in the world are not included here.)
What I meant on the #4 is that I think if it can shift to the bass side, it can also shift to the treble side. However, I have only seen the case where the margin on the bass side is wider. (Of course, many symmetrical bass guitars in the world are not included here.)
i think a player's technique/style might account for some preference, e.g., i'm most likely to be the same as the guitar player example that you referenced. even though my string courses (as a group) look as though they're 'centered' on the fingerboard, that "1st string" sets the standard, and the D, A, and E strings follow, so to speak.
Turnaround
Commercial User
So do you really believe that Jaco's set up was merely by an error? And the same error kept happening to his bass guitars throughout his career?
Even if you are right, I still wonder why his tech never fixed it.
Turnaround
Commercial User
Lots of people don't "fix" it. But the OCD ones do. Most often they complain that the strings don't line up over the pole pieces of their pickups and it bothers them. Neither the alignment of the strings over the fretboard nor over the pickup poles is critical unless it bothers you or affects playability for you.
I'm not convinced that Jaco had the offset you mention:
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.. I think his style of playing probably slowly moved the basses like this... How he held the neck and manipulated the bass.
I am not sure he had guitar techs back then..
