Re: Those unique flaws

Now that you mention it, I should have mentioned the few things that every bass suffers from:

1. Dead spots on the neck. Every bass I've owned has had a dead note - not necessarily a spot as much as a resonant note that is dead, no matter where on the neck it's played. I've read this is inherent in wooden-neck instruments, and graphite is immune, but I could never afford a graphite-neck bass.

2. Neck-heavy balance. What's a bass without being neck-heavy? That would be too weird.

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