johnny1982

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1458394290' post='3007225'] A more or less relevant thread is [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/275271-the-fender-dead-spot-and-strings/"]here[/url]. [/quote] Ups, excuse me! I am preety new on this Forum...Was searching for dead spot topic and couldn't find one...

Hi everyone! This is my Feedback topic. Please be kind and honest! Cheers, Janez

Hi everyone! I owned lots of basses and most of them have had a dead spot - from the cheap to the expensive butique Basses. I know - i went through lots of opinions - from internet to luthiers in reality. Most of the answers were something like : "the wood is an organic material and it's normal..." What i've discovered is that almost everyone bass i've ever owned had a "dead spot" on the 7th fret G string. IF this is a dead spot anyway... It just rings out faster, leading to harmonic (you can feel the neck vibrating more as compared on the other notes). Somewhere i read that a dead spot SHOULD HAVE less attack compared to other notes, and THE WOLF is the exact opposite. However - this faster outringing note theoretically doesn't match any of those two. There were some Basses that i owned, without a dead spots. But they were 3 out of cca 20. And no, they weren't Fodera-s or similar! A normal Fender Jazz Bass Standard, Fender Stu Hamm Urge 2 and a Sadowsky RV5 Metro. I played a 5 string 24 fret Monarch who had, again, a "dead" spot on 7th fret, G string - pretty strong one. I noticed (it may be my assumption) that 24 fret Basses have a bigger "chance" of having a dead spot as the others... Still observing tho (Ok, Stu Hamm urge 2 had 24 frets, but it was really a lucky one) It is SO COMMON found thing on all the basses - also on the most expensive ones (custom foderas, ken smiths...) that i really don't know anymore...Do i care too much? Sometimes i think i will go nuts because of that... And after all that written - ARE this dead spots at all, or are those notes really LACKING of attack? Before going nuts - i try to calm me down with a thinking of all the bass stars on the planet... I assume that also they don't have the "perfect" outringing instruments in the universe, or...????? Can somebody discuss/give his opinion on this topic? Thank you and Cheers