2x12" Cab Build

[tauzero]

On 31/07/2025 at 21:39, Phil Starr said:

That made me ask the question: are there any notes where the fundamental sits directly over the pickups so I took a ruler to my bass. The answer was interesting: the 22nd fret on my Jazz bass is 28cm fom my bridge so the bit of vibrating string fretted there has the antinode/loudest point 14cm from the bridge and that is exactly where the neck pickup sits. It's more or less where the pickup is on my P-bass too. Coincidence or did Leo know something?

 

Well, he only put 20 frets on Precisions originally, so presumably he wanted to keep bassists away from that 22nd fret when the pickup would meet the antinode and the streams would cross. After a while he realised that nobody with a Fender goes past the fifth fret so he stuck those dangerous extra frets on for marketing purposes.