This ^^^
Uwe, I've been meaning to ask if you could measure the scale length of your wedge bass. I'll measure my 20 fretter. I believe it's like 33-5/8''.
Hmmh, are we all having misconceptions? My "Flying Broom" XKB-10 is 24-fret (one of the reasons I bought it back then in Deeeetroit), in fact I've never played an alu-neck Kramer that wasn't 24-fret
and medium scale (I've played an 8-string alu Kramer once, that felt exactly like my XKB-10). And when I mean medium scale, I mean medium-medium scale, not sissy-long scale like a Ric or short scale.
My Kramer XKB-10 is a classic medium scale: The E-string already suffers while D and G do not yet have short string agility. Worst of both worlds so to say.
That's coming from me as someone who thinks medium scale pretty much redundant. But I played the Kramer for years as my main bass in the early 80ies
without realizing that it was not long scale until someone told me. Then I realized: Oh, that is why the E string sounds a little duff ...