Hellzero

It's becoming even weirder now, the amount of frets doesn't change their exact position, the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th being exactly at the same place on all 34 inches scales. But, maybe the overall shape of the bass is the real problem, because frets position is fixed even with fanned frets and strictly related to the scale length and this formula : scale divided by root twelfth of two equals first fret position. The first fret position then becomes the new scale for the second position, and so on. This is only valid for our tempered chromatic scale, of course. Another issue you might have is very badly set intonation, because you are talking of a semitone difference in the region of the 3rd to the 7th fret... Please give us some light as it's really strange.

I don't get it as all the basses you mention have a 34 inches scale, so exactly the same. You will have different shapes of necks, but not scales. Just to give you an idea of the difference at the first fret going from 34 inches scale to 35 inches or to 33 inches scale is less than 1,5 millimeter. To be very precise, here is the distance from the nut to the first fret from 32 to 36 inches scales. 32 : 4,5619 cm. 33 : 4,7045 cm. 34 : 4,8470 cm. 35 : 4,9896 cm. 36 : 5,1321 cm. And as I assume you're playing at fretted bass somewhere in the middle between the frets, it won't make any difference. Even if you play fretless, which I do, it won't make a big difference and will also help you to get a better pitched intonation.

Don't think he's aware of that. ^^^ 😉

Never let a Clash fan demo a fretless. 🤣 And the next suggestion, just after the horror show is this : Funny to have Abraham Laboriel just after. Makes me want to buy a Wyn and burn an Aria.

Interesting indeed. Insomnia is great. 👍

Why not playing sitting ? This is what I'm doing as I have a severe back injury (66% crippled because of this). Otherwise, you'll also need a very large decent strap or a duo strap (if you are not too tall or large). Check headless basses : they are often lighter and way more ergonomical.

This is a 1992 Yamaha TRB-6P, Russ, as it's more IN22064. Their pdf explaining the serialisation is not always accurate, especially for these old TRB's as they have sometimes hard to decipher serial numbers and strange ones too...

Terrific basses, these Yamaha TRB-6P first generation. I had a few, some were defretted, and as a fretless it's a killer bass. I do tend to prefer the 2 trussrods models, which are the rarest ones ... of course. Well done, Russ.

Is it nickel or stainless steel ? Does it hum ?

GLWYS.

I watched the video. Amazing ! The routing "job" is simply awful. Total waste of money. Buy a second hand instrument instead.

New self heating socks prototype. Needs a bit of fixing... 😂

Glad I'm not one of your relatives or friends. Do you also burn all your mail ?

Focusing only on fretless bass, that would be my point. Even if I started on guitar when I was 16 years old (a crappy ekectric with a crappy amp paid the equivalent of 150 Euros with the little money I saved over the years), I've always been in love with that boomy lovely melodic sound I heard on records and mentioned as Fretless bass, which to me was a brand name back then. After my studies, so at the age of 22 years old, I bought my first real fretted bass with my first salary, then a few months later I had an Aria Diamond (Violin shape) defretted by Christophe LEDUC and started my journey in the fretless world messing with other instruments too. Now, I'm 54 and discovered the ERB 8 strings fretless bass that I really love as fretless is my thing. So, except focusing on the fretless bass only, just maybe having an official paper for my knowledge of the theory of music (but I can still do it).

Don't think it's the Internet, it has more to do with the parents not doing their job. I mean educating their kids and it's been lasting for decades now...

Neither do I... 😉

Very nice, but I need to keep my car. 🤣 Reminds me that I sold and bought mine (fretless) twice for £1000 GBP in the late 90's... Should have bought it a third time. Woops.

And that's the only purpose of a(n inboard) preamp. If you want sounds from the grave, buy pedals, that's what they are intended for. 😉

A - A# - C# - G# (and not A)

There are four, in fact, but still perfect ! 😉

Louie Louie by Motörhead. The original by Richard Berry having no real bass line, but an idea of what it should be. Simple and effective, just like Once in a Lifetime by The Talking Heads or Papa was a Rolling Stone by The Temptations, already mentioned.

I'm sure it's an original. 😉😱😁