FDC484950 Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 1 hour ago, SumOne said: Er.... yes! If you pluck vertically down (red line) then the G is being plucked relatively closer to it's bridge than the B. You'd need to pluck on the blue line to be plucking the same relative distances along each string (The fret fanning and pickup angles show the relative distance for each string e.g. Bridge to 24th fret being a quarter of the length along each string). Er… no?! The blue line may be the same length of each string from the bridge but as a fraction of the length of the string it’s actually shorter with each string. It’s the whole length of the string, not just the bit from the bridge to where you pluck. Think about it… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 1 hour ago, FDC484950 said: The blue line may be the same length of each string from the bridge but as a fraction of the length of the string it’s actually shorter with each string. It’s the whole length of the string, not just the bit from the bridge to where you pluck. Think about it… Not quite sure I understand what you mean there. Look at the 24th fret - as a fraction of the string it is 25% of the way from the bridge to the nut - it has to be, or it wouldn't play in tune, regardless of how long the string was. So that blue line is a continuation of the slope of the strings, so yes, that blue line is the same proportion of the scale of each string regardless of its length from the bridge (clearly the length from the bridge to the blue line is further in absolute distance the bigger string you go, but the same proportion). 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munurmunuh Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Shaking my head at this argument. The one of you who is really wrong, either stop now, or take a photo of the whole bass, draw a vertical line across the strings, and calculate the proportions of the lengths either side of that point for each string. And then have a good think about making assertions about your assumptions. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3below Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 As a (now retired) physicist /engineer I rapidly analysed the many variables in this problem. I quickly reached a simple conclusion. Just play it where you get the tones you want 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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