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Why don't more builders use fanned frets / multi-scale?
- Thread starter Menorahman
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Not even remotely. Noiseless pickups solve a real problem.....noise. Fanned frets.......making an entire bass harder to play in order to provide a placebo for a problem over about 4 notes?
The differences become much more clear wit
IDK what you guys are talking about...as the owner of an SRFF806 I can definitively say the B low string saddle does not hang off the body of the bass.
Given that you reached this conclusion on post #13........I'm guessing this was a conclusion in search of an audience.
Must just be the photo.
I really like this bass, though, and would love to try one out.
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I think the $$$ for fanned fret basses exists, and currently Dingwall is the only company cashing in on it. The popularity and rising prevalence of the Dingwall NG-2 is proof of this.
Problems: inbalanced string tension, ergonomics, scale length for low de-tuning...
These problems have existed for a long time. Multi-scale isn't the only solution for these problems, but currently it's one of the best solutions.
Making the electric bass even longer, and placing frets at an angle does not do anything but negatively effect ergonomics and scale length......
The rest of it is opinion that most players don't even remotely share.
I like my fretboard the way it is. However, I do use a small electric fan when I play gigs.
Did you know that's how musicians often act? Sometimes they're also highly opinionated, unreliable/unstable, bossy, etc. This ain't the Boy Scouts.
So do I. I got me one of these small Vornados I keep on the floor...
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Most people think it's a monitor.
True story, Charlie Hunter once played my Greg German archtop 7 string before I bought it. The downside is that my guitar now knows that I'm not very good.
Does anyone else look at a fanned fret and see an optical illusion of a curved neck? It's quite a curious thing.
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The extended range on the B string is offers one clear improvement over 34" scale and that is a clear, true note with sustain all the way up the fretboard. You can have good B's at 34", you can have a tight and clear open B, but you get wolftones as you fret up the neck with anything less than 37". Check the 15th fret on any 34/35" bass and you'll hear what I mean, this is the worst spot in my experience.
Most people will never play that high but it is something that cannot be done on 34" scale basses unlike balanced string tension. If we are going to argue for ergonomics than the real solution is a Torzal and not fanned frets. I have never played one of those so I have no idea on what other difficulties arise though.
Esp has a few in their B series.
Products - B Series Basses - The ESP Guitar Company
They are at the $1400 price range (probably $1000 in a shop).
Some of the cost is most likely due to extra work on the fret board, making cuts at all those angles has got to be harder than make a bunch of 90* cuts.
Then again, this day and age a CNC probably does all the work so...
I've never played one but I'd like to. Only then can I decide if it's right or wrong FOR ME.
I don't know, if it works for this guy (can't recall his name) there should be no argument against it on this board, amirite?
Products - B Series Basses - The ESP Guitar Company
They are at the $1400 price range (probably $1000 in a shop).
Some of the cost is most likely due to extra work on the fret board, making cuts at all those angles has got to be harder than make a bunch of 90* cuts.
Then again, this day and age a CNC probably does all the work so...
I've never played one but I'd like to. Only then can I decide if it's right or wrong FOR ME.
I don't know, if it works for this guy (can't recall his name) there should be no argument against it on this board, amirite?
You know that DB player or every string player move their hands so the bow to fit where they are playing ... Just like if you move your hand you won't find the B to be floppy at all or even the sound to be crappy
Esp has a few in their B series.
Products - B Series Basses - The ESP Guitar Company
They are at the $1400 price range (probably $1000 in a shop).
Some of the cost is most likely due to extra work on the fret board, making cuts at all those angles has got to be harder than make a bunch of 90* cuts.
Then again, this day and age a CNC probably does all the work so...
I've never played one but I'd like to. Only then can I decide if it's right or wrong FOR ME.
I don't know, if it works for this guy (can't recall his name) there should be no argument against it on this board, amirite?
Isn't his go to bass for recording a parts 4 string P bass with a Charvel body, a Badass II bridge, mandolin frets (not fanned), 2 reverse EMG P pickups...and a "producer switch"?
If it works for him there should be no argument against it on this board...amirite?
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Esp has a few in their B series.
Products - B Series Basses - The ESP Guitar Company
They are at the $1400 price range (probably $1000 in a shop).
Some of the cost is most likely due to extra work on the fret board, making cuts at all those angles has got to be harder than make a bunch of 90* cuts.
Then again, this day and age a CNC probably does all the work so...
I've never played one but I'd like to. Only then can I decide if it's right or wrong FOR ME.
I don't know, if it works for this guy (can't recall his name) there should be no argument against it on this board, amirite?
LOL!
(Anyone who doesn't get the joke, read the recent Pete Wentz thread).
I think his first bass was a washtub with a 2x4, a wire and a screw. So back then probably no fanned frets. Looks like somewhere along the line he upgraded though
seriously I don't know, was just chastised in another thread for not knowing what he recorded on (of course the chastisers never said either) so I looked him up on wiki to find out that yeah, other than C,S&N and a Doors album I would have never listened to anything he recorded including movies.
But that picture was there
seriously I don't know, was just chastised in another thread for not knowing what he recorded on (of course the chastisers never said either) so I looked him up on wiki to find out that yeah, other than C,S&N and a Doors album I would have never listened to anything he recorded including movies.
But that picture was there
