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Is longer scale length more forgiving for poor intonation?


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I'm a bass guitar playing musing on getting an EUB for a jazz band I'm in. I'm currently using an unlined fretless and I'm pretty ropey. 

 

Obviously there are 34" EUBs that probably sound more like a fretless bass than DB, but I wondered if a proper size actually made it easier to get closer to a correct note, as being a few mm out is proportionally less wrong...

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Not sure I agree. The point made by the OP is arithmtically correct; yes, you're still out of tune but - for a given finger placement - you're less out of tune on a longer-scale instrument (which helps).

 

Unfortunately there's a quid pro quo in that the movement required to go from being badly intonated to hitting exacty the right note will be correspondingly larger. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

 

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I assume so.

 

I'm generally in tune in the money zone, getting a bit worse as I start doing big shifts or getting up the dusty end. On a 34" scale fretless I'm a disaster.

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