{"id":5040,"date":"2013-12-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2013-12-17T19:24:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T00:24:24","slug":"do-you-prefer-32-23-or-41-for-your-5-string-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/uncategorized\/do-you-prefer-32-23-or-41-for-your-5-string-bass.html","title":{"rendered":"Do You Prefer 3\/2, 2\/3 or 4\/1 For Your 5-String Bass?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 5-string bass obviously has an odd number of tuners, so it’s not exactly easy to get symmetry on the pegboard as far as how to place tuners are concerned.<\/p>\n

Fender still does make 5-string models with all five tuners “on top”, inline style. However, the problem with doing that is that on full (meaning not short) scale models, there are many players who literally cannot reach the 1-string tuner and have to pull the bass towards them just to tune the thing.<\/p>\n

The solution to this was to move the 1-string tuner to the opposite side of the pegboard, and this is a 4\/1 setup as seen above…<\/p>\n

…however, some players really<\/em> don’t like the look of it, as the 1-string tuner according to them looks like a tacked-on afterthought rather than something that’s supposed to be there.<\/p>\n

Other companies like ESP with their LTD line opt to go with a 3\/2 setup, like this:<\/p>\n

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And sometimes you will see other models from other companies that opt for 2\/3.<\/p>\n

We asked our Facebook audience about this<\/a>, and many comments came in saying 3\/2 and 2\/3 was the preferred tuner positioning of choice.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Is the 4\/1 ugly? Is 3\/2 and 2\/3 better overall? Post a comment and let us know.<\/p>\n

And by the way, yeah<\/a> we<\/a> sell<\/a> tuners<\/a>. So if you’re building your own bass (and we hope you are), you can position your tuners however you like!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 5-string bass obviously has an odd number of tuners, so it’s not exactly easy to get symmetry on the pegboard as far as how to place tuners are concerned. Fender still does make 5-string models with all five tuners “on top”, inline style. However, the problem with doing that is that on full (meaning … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}