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Why do notes played on bass strings on the highest frets sound bad?
As stated in other answers the reason is intonicity. There are some ways to minimize its effects, none of them perfect:
Play a fretless bass
What has worked for Jaco Pastorius might work just as well ...
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Why do notes played on bass strings on the highest frets sound bad?
There is a lot of stuff going on there. As others already said the lowest string notes are quite sharp, which is not in fact unrealistic, as intonation of the frets on these thick strings can be a bit ...
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Why do notes played on bass strings on the highest frets sound bad?
Very likely, inharmonicity is the key. Bass strings are normally thicker, in order to have more weight per length unit which makes their resonant frequency lower. But the thicker it is, compared to ...
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