Ajoten Posted Saturday at 09:16 Posted Saturday at 09:16 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... Quote
chrkelly Posted Saturday at 10:10 Posted Saturday at 10:10 Unfortunately not, out of tune is out of tune on any instrument. Quote
Happy Jack Posted Saturday at 11:38 Posted Saturday at 11:38 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. 2 1 Quote
Beedster Posted Saturday at 14:05 Posted Saturday at 14:05 Yes, the shorter the scale the greater the impact on pitch if the same mms of incorrect finger placement Quote
NickD Posted Saturday at 15:24 Posted Saturday at 15:24 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. Quote
Beedster Posted Saturday at 18:58 Posted Saturday at 18:58 My intonation is so poor I'm having a 68" scale built 2 Quote
Bonin-in-the boneyard Posted Saturday at 19:13 Posted Saturday at 19:13 I've had a NS full size EUB And moved it on as I mainly play fretless I ended up ordering a NS Omni bass 34 scale and I find it's easier to play and switch between both Good technique will help get better intonation Quote
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