exin
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Here's my short write up on the most annoying thing you can find on your bass guitar. The very disability that is volatile and changable.
Dead spots are the guitarist/bassists worse nightmare. A dead spot is a note on your fingerboard that doesn't have the sustain/tone fundamental/volume compared to the other notes on your fingerboard. It can appear anywhere but for bassist, it's more obvious on the higher registers of our instrument like the C or D on the G string or in the middle of your neck that area.
The cause of a dead spot up till today is still unknown. Early Fender P and J basses are plagued with this problem and Fender had a huge problem dealing with them.
Some people say that it's due to fretwork. But if fretwork was the problem, why do the other notes in the same fret sound okay compared to THAT note only?
Others agree more commonly that it's due to the wood characteristics that causes such problems. It's very common in wooden necks.
So here's my short experiment that i did on my bass where i had a dead spot at the B note on the D string.
I added mass to the headstock and realised that it does solve the dead spot problem, my problem was sustain and tone fundamental. Adding more weight to the top of the headstock and trying to stick it under something heavy actually solved the dead spot problem ... so for those having dead spot problems, here's a simple experiment you can try to fix it up.
There's actually a product called FATFINGER by GROOVE TUBES that does this. It's basically a simple aesthetic clamp that you can clamp to the headstock to add mass to it so that it'll move the dead spot off the audible range of the instrument. Other than that, a slight weight will solve the problem if you guys don't want to spend the moolah in getting that. =)
Do post your experience and any other things you want to add ...
Dead spots are the guitarist/bassists worse nightmare. A dead spot is a note on your fingerboard that doesn't have the sustain/tone fundamental/volume compared to the other notes on your fingerboard. It can appear anywhere but for bassist, it's more obvious on the higher registers of our instrument like the C or D on the G string or in the middle of your neck that area.
The cause of a dead spot up till today is still unknown. Early Fender P and J basses are plagued with this problem and Fender had a huge problem dealing with them.
Some people say that it's due to fretwork. But if fretwork was the problem, why do the other notes in the same fret sound okay compared to THAT note only?
Others agree more commonly that it's due to the wood characteristics that causes such problems. It's very common in wooden necks.
So here's my short experiment that i did on my bass where i had a dead spot at the B note on the D string.
I added mass to the headstock and realised that it does solve the dead spot problem, my problem was sustain and tone fundamental. Adding more weight to the top of the headstock and trying to stick it under something heavy actually solved the dead spot problem ... so for those having dead spot problems, here's a simple experiment you can try to fix it up.
There's actually a product called FATFINGER by GROOVE TUBES that does this. It's basically a simple aesthetic clamp that you can clamp to the headstock to add mass to it so that it'll move the dead spot off the audible range of the instrument. Other than that, a slight weight will solve the problem if you guys don't want to spend the moolah in getting that. =)
Do post your experience and any other things you want to add ...
