LukeFRC Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 I took two basses to play at church today. One my JV has reverse turning machineheads the other my homemade fretless has normal direction machineheads... absolutely baffling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzz Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Oddly enough, either I've not had the experience of reverse tuners, or all of mine have been reverse tuners. Normal ones are where (on a fender 4 inline) you turn them anti clockwise yes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamster Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 I borrowed a bass for a couple of songs once and had the same baffling experience - until I noticed the E string had been wound on the opposite way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjb Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Are you sure the strings haven't been wound the wrong way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreeneKing Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 [quote]until I noticed the E string had been wound on the opposite way.[/quote] I have one bass with reverse tuners (Ric C64S) and it confuses the hell outta me Every Bass Collection I've bought (3) has be incorrectly wound on one or two strings. Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDM Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 (edited) Ah well. At least you don't get confused by 2+2 or 3+2 headstocks like I sometimes am Edited February 23, 2009 by thedonutman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_the_bass Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 yeah the reverse tuners on my JV used to get me. just one of those things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 yes i am certain i havn't put the strings on the wrong way. some of the early fender basses tuners went backwards, my JV being a fairly good copy of a 1957 P bass also has these backwards tuners. baffeling if you then pick up another bass inbetween songs and go to tune up and it goes down... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gafbass02 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 i bought the wrong hipshot ten years ago so my blue jazz's E string has gone the other way to the other strings for all that time .. 2nd nature now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budget bassist Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 I had an old jay turser MM copy back in the day which came with a 2+2 headstock config, i had to switch two of the tuners and turn one (the E string) upside down to get it to have the 3+1 headstock config of a normal musicman, i never did get the hang of the E string going the wrong way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telebass Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 All Fender basses to some point in 1966 had 'reverse' machines. At that point, Forrest White got two variants of 'non reverse' machines made in-house, normal cloverleaf and paddle (oval) tuners. I use one of each bass type every gig (51RI and MIM Std), and have got used to switching between them now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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