One thing he doesn't mention is the ORDER to do those 3 things in. It's pretty important to start with the truss rod, then do the string height at the saddle and do the intonation last. Doing it any other way will drive you crazy as each adjustment will screw up the one just before.
is it possible to cause damage to the bridge when adjusting string height without tuning down the string a little? maybe not for lowering but when raising the height? could've sworn i heard that mentioned from another setup video
Deffo intonate last and make sure you retune open string each time you make an adjustment otherwise you will get into an infinite loop of each adjust messing up the previous one
@@_Majoras saddle screws are very small with a fine thread and small wrench hole so you do want to slacken the string to take the load off the saddle so it's easy to turn those little screws without damaging them.
@@_Majoras IF LOWERING NO PROBLEM IF RAISING A BIT AND YOUR BRIDGE GOT SUPER MICRO SCREWS//THAN RAISE STRING BY HAND AND YOU CAN SET IT UP A BIT ,,YOU CAN FEEL WHEN TURNING SCREW IT SHOULD BE JUST A LITTLE TENSION ,,IF YOU FEEL/LIKE YOU GOT NO FEELING FOR THAT LIKE MY FRIEND WHO SNAPPED ANY BOLT MAY IT BE ON CAR TIRE SCREW OR WOOD SCREW ,,THAN LOOSEN STRING BUT JUST TO THE POINT IT IS STILL HOLDING OK OR YOU WILL HAVE TO LOOK THAT STRINGS ARE SITTING IN KEY/WINDER LIKE IT WAS/SHOULD // SO IF GOT FEELING HOW MUCH TENSION IS NOT TOO MUCH FOR GIVEN SCREW THREAD THICKNESS IF NOT SURE LOOSEN 2 TURNS OR 3 OF THE KEY //THAT THAN WILL DO IT OR YOU BETTER HAVE RAISER SCREWS 1 GAUGE LARGER BY MACHINIST ,,IT S A 10 MIN JOB HE DRILL OUT OLD THREADS GET IN LARGER ONES AND SOME GOOD SCREWS USED FOR RC RACING CARS OR JUST FROM HARDWARE STORE AND YOU OK FOR LIFE
So many instructors try to explain that and make it sound so complicated. You broke that all down perfectly that even the newest of players could understand it. Great job Victor. Thats why you are the man
YEAH! YEAH! after several other videos, finally Victor explains basic bass tuning in a most simple, direct, and to the point way. just what I needed. Thanks
James is my cousin I’ve been very fortunate to have gotten to talk to Vic one on one thanks to James it was awesome Victor answered his phone on thanks giving to talk to me it was awesome and very humbling victor is extremely kind and humble himself he’s a blessing without a doubt he’s a wonderful human being I hope to go to bass camp someday soon
The Goat..... greatly explained how to do this, I would never consider adjusting my basses until I saw this video.. made a big difference on my Lakland
Great stuff presented here. Remember: always set your Intonation in "Playing-position" - if it's done (flat) on a workbench . . . Gravity will slightly Alter-the-Pitch. oNe LovE from NYC
I’ve been so freaked out cause anytime my bass is “set up” I feel like my strings around the twelfth fret are too far from the fret board and that the neck is always weirdly dipped. Seeing Victor Flippin’ Wooten press down that far on his frets and him saying “you want a little bit of dip” is so relieving lol.
Victor Wooten said if I move the truss rod just a quarter inch at a time, I shouldn't fear of ruining my instrument. In the name of God, I'm doing this to my first bass. I'm scared.
It did nothing. I gave it a quarter turn, didn't even click, no nothing. I doubted if my bass even had a working truss rod. I took it to a guitar-tech the next week and he fixed the issues. Thankfully, my bass indeed has a working truss rod and I can adjust it now. The quarter turn the first time was too little to be noticeable to my amateur eyes.
Wow! A tutorial from one of the greats!!! Thanks sir! Any words of wisdom for getting pesky fret-buzz out of certain focused areas on the neck? :( I bought a Thnk NS (Steinberger) bass, one of the newest/most recent lines, and I had sent it back to Ned Steinberger's shop twice and the fret-buzzes were awful and couldn't seem to be taken care of so I got a refund for it, which was super sad
I have never really been a gear head so i barley know the common guitars, despite having played for 15 years xD In all this time i have never done any adjustments to my Sg Epiphone. I always thought it sounded bad because it was "a knock off" and that i had broken the neck once. I fixed it myself with some wood glue and a pair of clamps. But i thought i did a shit job of it. It would never hold a tone, and if i played an octave higher on the same string it was 20-25 cents off. If i played any note it would usually start of right, and then drop down 8c or something crazy. It was so bad i was put off playing guitar for a couple of years. About a year ago i bought a base and learned to do a propper setup, then i thought. Huh. I might as well do this with my old SG guitar. When i finally tightened everything up i discovered that most screws where loose, and that tuning keys where barely hanging on..... The bridge was extremely close to falling off xD After doing some tightening, changing strings, intonation and adjusting to pickuphights. Then bam.... Keeps the tone like a charm and sounds much better! Now it is fun to play and i play it regularly (Not as regular as my bass though). Turnes out that i fixed the neck ok enough. It makes all the difference guys! Do a propper setup!
What he is not explaining with the "righty tight left loosey" thing is what it will do to the strings. Clockwise will make the neck straighter, thus taking the strings closer to the fret board, giving you a lower action. ( strings closer to the fretboard.)
lmbo! @11:01 on the close up you can clearly see the D string is further than it should be from the G. That is obviously due to the fact the D string is not seated in the center of it's saddle. FIX? Here it is! Wait for it........ take a finger and pull the D string back into it's saddle! B@@m fixed! I'll send you a bill. XD
Victor is a wise man, but in my opinion, it's a really good idea to tighten any truss rod with string tension off. Especially if you have an older bass or a lower end bass, you don't want to tighten it with string tension because you can risk stripping it the rod. I will not give any playing advice though.
WHAT ABOUT SCREW ON TOP OF SADDLE THAT SUPPOSE TO LOCK SADDLE IN PLACE WHEN ADJUSTED,,NOT ALL SADDLES HAVE IT /BUY YOUR GOT ONE IT IS THE ONE BEHIND RAISING 2 SCREWS THAT LIFT SADDLE I SEE YOU GOT ONE JUST BEHIND ITS HEX ON THE LEFT DIDE OF SADDLE ON YOUR BRIDGE
Based on my experience, you shouldn’t never use the trus road adjustments for changing the bass action! You can check the action and see if the neck require trus road adjustments!
Well, thanks. I am not too much of a fan, but he seems so nice, he's probably the best tapping bassist in the world,or Michael Manring. But I will always gravitate towards songwriters.... Play some Oasis Victor.
When my bass grows up it wants to become a Fodera.
He seems like such a cool guy. And I love when musicians share their tips with noobs
Always teaching. That's a good man.
One thing he doesn't mention is the ORDER to do those 3 things in. It's pretty important to start with the truss rod, then do the string height at the saddle and do the intonation last. Doing it any other way will drive you crazy as each adjustment will screw up the one just before.
is it possible to cause damage to the bridge when adjusting string height without tuning down the string a little? maybe not for lowering but when raising the height? could've sworn i heard that mentioned from another setup video
@@_Majoras if you're careful and avoid applying pressure on the saddles in general you won't cause any harm to it
Deffo intonate last and make sure you retune open string each time you make an adjustment otherwise you will get into an infinite loop of each adjust messing up the previous one
@@_Majoras saddle screws are very small with a fine thread and small wrench hole so you do want to slacken the string to take the load off the saddle so it's easy to turn those little screws without damaging them.
@@_Majoras IF LOWERING NO PROBLEM IF RAISING A BIT AND YOUR BRIDGE GOT SUPER MICRO SCREWS//THAN RAISE STRING BY HAND AND YOU CAN SET IT UP A BIT ,,YOU CAN FEEL WHEN TURNING SCREW IT SHOULD BE JUST A LITTLE TENSION ,,IF YOU FEEL/LIKE YOU GOT NO FEELING FOR THAT LIKE MY FRIEND WHO SNAPPED ANY BOLT MAY IT BE ON CAR TIRE SCREW OR WOOD SCREW ,,THAN LOOSEN STRING BUT JUST TO THE POINT IT IS STILL HOLDING OK OR YOU WILL HAVE TO LOOK THAT STRINGS ARE SITTING IN KEY/WINDER LIKE IT WAS/SHOULD // SO IF GOT FEELING HOW MUCH TENSION IS NOT TOO MUCH FOR GIVEN SCREW THREAD THICKNESS IF NOT SURE LOOSEN 2 TURNS OR 3 OF THE KEY //THAT THAN WILL DO IT OR YOU BETTER HAVE RAISER SCREWS 1 GAUGE LARGER BY MACHINIST ,,IT S A 10 MIN JOB HE DRILL OUT OLD THREADS GET IN LARGER ONES AND SOME GOOD SCREWS USED FOR RC RACING CARS OR JUST FROM HARDWARE STORE AND YOU OK FOR LIFE
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Cameraman: Yeah!
Great. Thank you.
So many instructors try to explain that and make it sound so complicated. You broke that all down perfectly that even the newest of players could understand it. Great job Victor. Thats why you are the man
Heyyy, I'm wearing that exact T-shirt... and that, folks, is the end of the similarities between Victor Wooten and me. 😢
:D :D :D
Thee end😂😂
that made my laugh :D thank you! are you trying to be a good human, after all?
BEST tutorial, Explanation EVER. Thanks
YEAH! YEAH! after several other videos, finally Victor explains basic bass tuning in a most simple, direct, and to the point way. just what I needed. Thanks
One of the coolest guys in the history of music.
So I know all this stuff already, but listening to Victor explain it makes me feel like I learned something new lol.
Victor is super educational whether it is playing music with humble soul philosophy or technical advice and bass maintenance. Such a cool guy.
My man! Thanks!
James is my cousin I’ve been very fortunate to have gotten to talk to Vic one on one thanks to James it was awesome Victor answered his phone on thanks giving to talk to me it was awesome and very humbling victor is extremely kind and humble himself he’s a blessing without a doubt he’s a wonderful human being I hope to go to bass camp someday soon
Scott Victor is a gift to all who loves music, especially bassists 👍🙂
The Goat..... greatly explained how to do this, I would never consider adjusting my basses until I saw this video.. made a big difference on my Lakland
I Iove the way VW calmly explains things without overly complicating them 💯
Thanks for those great tips!
Awesome!! Thank you for this!!
Best setup video ever, thanks for sharing!
Fantastic video! Thank you.
Amen. Thank you Mr. Ross.
Thank you. I have been setting up my own bass for 20 years. You just provided a different way to think about setups. Rock on brother!
Thanks for the education!
Good job. Thank You.
Thank you. This is very helpful. 🙏🏼
Excellent. Thanks for the tips
Thank you good information
Thanks for posting this and such a detailed explanation. Short, sweet, and awesome.
Excellent. Thank you Mr Wooten.
Uau, Thank you so much
That was the best, clearest setup explanation EVER.
Thank you Victor 🙋
Pretty cool. Yesss.
Victor is one of the best bass plyers ever. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks Victor I just learned something on the saddle and intonation...✊🏿
that bridge looks so cool 😍
great teacher
Great Guy !
Great info from the greatest. Makes it easy to understand. Thanks Victor Wooten👍
Great stuff presented here. Remember: always set your Intonation in "Playing-position" - if it's done (flat) on a workbench . . . Gravity will slightly Alter-the-Pitch. oNe LovE from NYC
Thank you so much victor wooten... N thanks to the person that also recorded the video
Great information on short video... got my bass right on the money after this.
Your awesome brother love the way you hit the bass and I do my own setups but your video was very educational thanks brother
Master and Guru.
Thanks James and Vic I have never done my own set up ,always took my basses to a pro this was very informative. I miss jamming the you james.
Thanks
Yeah!
Right!
Wonderful! Best instruction I heard so long. Thank you so much!
Totally 💯 AGREE 💯👍👍👍👍👍
So practical
This was really a sticking point for me but not any more. Thanks!
Pearls of Wisdom from the wizard !
Perfect explanation. Better than a ton of advice you can find on CZcams. (I don’t take the strings off to do the small intonation adjustments)
Good stuff...from a bass master!
I’m not a master, I known before everything he says but for the first time my octaves are in tune
💯🦋
Yeahh
Check intonation at the 12th fret (should be in tune w/open string, octave higher).
Cool trick to lift the string off the saddle then intonate. That can quicken time for intonation.Thanks God for a giver like Victor Wooten...
Nice info .
Vic you are the shiznak!!
I’ve been so freaked out cause anytime my bass is “set up” I feel like my strings around the twelfth fret are too far from the fret board and that the neck is always weirdly dipped. Seeing Victor Flippin’ Wooten press down that far on his frets and him saying “you want a little bit of dip” is so relieving lol.
A C E . . . . .!!!!!
Victor Wooten said if I move the truss rod just a quarter inch at a time, I shouldn't fear of ruining my instrument. In the name of God, I'm doing this to my first bass. I'm scared.
lmao. How'd it turn out?
It did nothing. I gave it a quarter turn, didn't even click, no nothing. I doubted if my bass even had a working truss rod. I took it to a guitar-tech the next week and he fixed the issues. Thankfully, my bass indeed has a working truss rod and I can adjust it now. The quarter turn the first time was too little to be noticeable to my amateur eyes.
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Wow! A tutorial from one of the greats!!! Thanks sir! Any words of wisdom for getting pesky fret-buzz out of certain focused areas on the neck? :( I bought a Thnk NS (Steinberger) bass, one of the newest/most recent lines, and I had sent it back to Ned Steinberger's shop twice and the fret-buzzes were awful and couldn't seem to be taken care of so I got a refund for it, which was super sad
What I've always done is alternate the same amount of turns between the 2 screws.
Haha! Béla!
I have never really been a gear head so i barley know the common guitars, despite having played for 15 years xD
In all this time i have never done any adjustments to my Sg Epiphone. I always thought it sounded bad because it was "a knock off" and that i had broken the neck once. I fixed it myself with some wood glue and a pair of clamps. But i thought i did a shit job of it.
It would never hold a tone, and if i played an octave higher on the same string it was 20-25 cents off. If i played any note it would usually start of right, and then drop down 8c or something crazy.
It was so bad i was put off playing guitar for a couple of years.
About a year ago i bought a base and learned to do a propper setup, then i thought. Huh. I might as well do this with my old SG guitar.
When i finally tightened everything up i discovered that most screws where loose, and that tuning keys where barely hanging on.....
The bridge was extremely close to falling off xD
After doing some tightening, changing strings, intonation and adjusting to pickuphights. Then bam.... Keeps the tone like a charm and sounds much better!
Now it is fun to play and i play it regularly (Not as regular as my bass though). Turnes out that i fixed the neck ok enough. It makes all the difference guys! Do a propper setup!
What he is not explaining with the "righty tight left loosey" thing is what it will do to the strings. Clockwise will make the neck straighter, thus taking the strings closer to the fret board, giving you a lower action. ( strings closer to the fretboard.)
Camera dude:”Right!”
“Yeah” “Right” “Mmm”
Easiest to understand set up video on the internet
Hmm, green gunk on the bridge :)
That's a beautiful bass, what brand is it?
All bass he play he built by hand. The bass in the video is called fandora hot rod. Perfect for his slap at tap dap technical
lmbo! @11:01 on the close up you can clearly see the D string is further than it should be from the G. That is obviously due to the fact the D string is not seated in the center of it's saddle. FIX? Here it is! Wait for it........ take a finger and pull the D string back into it's saddle! B@@m fixed! I'll send you a bill. XD
Victor is a wise man, but in my opinion, it's a really good idea to tighten any truss rod with string tension off. Especially if you have an older bass or a lower end bass, you don't want to tighten it with string tension because you can risk stripping it the rod. I will not give any playing advice though.
The main thing I'm taking away from this is that Fodera basses need constant tweaking to remain playable 🤷
5:58 What did he mean "sharp" Right there?
He was at the high Bb on the G string. If that note is sharp it means it would higher in pitch than a Bb. Say an A for example.
@@bsdguy thanks!
@@bsdguy thats flat, a sharp bflat would be b, or c
@@_cooldad you're right....thx.
5:14 uhhhhh what was that
WHAT ABOUT SCREW ON TOP OF SADDLE THAT SUPPOSE TO LOCK SADDLE IN PLACE WHEN ADJUSTED,,NOT ALL SADDLES HAVE IT /BUY YOUR GOT ONE IT IS THE ONE BEHIND RAISING 2 SCREWS THAT LIFT SADDLE I SEE YOU GOT ONE JUST BEHIND ITS HEX ON THE LEFT DIDE OF SADDLE ON YOUR BRIDGE
Based on my experience, you shouldn’t never use the trus road adjustments for changing the bass action!
You can check the action and see if the neck require trus road adjustments!
Awesome player, but in the proper order , adjusting the neck relief isn’t for raising the action. It’s for setting the proper relief.
Just enough info for a ID10T to screw up. Some people Play - Some people Fix.. ?
Too bad he doesn't get into the pickups height... Nice man though!
Well, thanks. I am not too much of a fan, but he seems so nice, he's probably the best tapping bassist in the world,or Michael Manring. But I will always gravitate towards songwriters.... Play some Oasis Victor.
Romans 10:9
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