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2004-11-02, 16:53
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Senior Metalhead
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Winnipeg, Canada
Posts: 274
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Originally Posted by tatter3d
Its all up to how u lower the bridge and the nut height. (thats if ur nut can be heightened) ..
If all fails just keep adjusting your bridge and you will find the right height where its easy to tap.. and doesent twang when you fingerstyle it..
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I strongly disagree. The only way to make taping easy (especially on frets 18-24) is to have the bridge low. This makes that twangy sound of the string hitting the frets inevitable for finger style. It's a problem that pisses me off. Having the 'ideal' height for the bridge and nut also means more fret buzz unless your neck is perfectly aligned. A month ago I spent 40$ (approx. 30 U.S. dollars) to get my neck professionally aligned. It was beautiful - not one fret buzzed, and the strings are to same distance from the fretboard everywhere, it was just like it was when I first bought the bass. Unfortunately it took about one week for the neck to slighly change, and now I have fret buzz again. 
I know this has been said before, but I do know a solution for fret buzz and strings twanging on frets: get a fretless. Since I like the sound of them anyway, I plan on buying one, but they are unfortunately very expensive.
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I say do away with it. You can always stand in its former location if you need to make use of the perspective it gave you, but will benefit from the ability to situate yourself in different loci with ease.
Destroy the box.
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