Quote Originally Posted by navvid
Again, compensation is not a matter of tone. It is a matter of scale length, which is scientific fact. The proper scale length for each string has to do with the gauge, and tension. When you adjust the scale length (i.e. compensation), you are correcting the fretted notes to match the appropriate corresponding chromatic scale degree for that fretted note. If your saddle is not compensated, there is no way all your strings will be the proper scale length, which means fretted notes going up the fret board will be progressively further out of pitch. In other words, your open 5th string may be tuned to A 440, but the 1st fret note will not correctly match A#, 2nd fret will be still further from proper B, and so on.
Amazingly enough (to me, anyway), that makes total sense. Why would anyone use an uncompensated saddle then, Navvid?