How to Setup Your Bass Guitar
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- I'm excited to share some tips on doing your own, professional bass setup that's personally tailored to your playing style. We'll cover everything you need to know from filing the nut, setting your neck relief and action to adjusting the intonation. I've added a bonus section at the end that includes a hack for setting your pickup height for even string volume across both pickups.
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Nut files:
www.stewmac.com/luthier-tools...
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Timecodes
0:00 Intro
0:28 Setup
0:48 Filing the Nut
2:04 Neck Relief
3:43 Action or String Height
4:27 Lower Action Secret Sauce
6:14 Intonation
8:39 Pickup Height
9:11 Pickup Height Hack
10:39 Outro
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Great video. Gives specs you can’t find anywhere else. Thanks bud. I appreciate your help
very helpful, thank you
Thanks Dave! Very helpful video!
Great, thanks for watching! 🙏
Drill bits of the correct diameter work great too.
Thank u alot i have a warwick corvette bubinga 6 string i press down tge 17 fret then i have 0.50mm at 7 fret. Then i have 0.30mm at the nut height :) and low action. Thank u alot i always thought 0.50 or 1mm was way too much relief when people told me that was wayy too much.
Cool video, it definitely should help folks out 👍
When you say intonation is affected by string height, I find it as like this-
When I set the intonation perfectly at 12th fret, I then check and see if the notes are sharp when on 24th fret (or your highest if you dont have 24),
If theyre sharper, you have to set string height lower, then reset the intonation. Its a pain to do but makes all the difference when chords ring true on the 12th fret and above🤘😜
Everything you taught worked,thank you. Cant seem to get good sound out of the g tho?
Hey, thanks for watching! I'm not sure what could be happening with the G. Maybe it's a dead string? Good luck!
@@DavePorterBand thank you so very much. I had no idea this was a thing
@@BarefootViking it is
@@jpjay1584 I'm new at it. I appreciate it. So new set is only solution?
Thanks, Dave! This will come in handy. I have ordered the Schecter SLS Elite 5 evil twin. I did check out your review of this bass. ( very well done!) was curious does the fingerprint come off the Satin color over all what do you think of this bass any major or minor issues?
Thanks for watching, Tony! Yeah, satin finishes (especially black) tend to fingerprint a little easier but they wipe off easily. That Schecter has become one of my favorite basses in the studio because it's so easy to play and it sounds amazing! Looks very metal but it can handle anything... I think it slaps really well. Hope you enjoy yours when it comes in!
@@DavePorterBand thanks for the response. Now I really can't wait!!