STRING GAUGES AND BRANDS ??

1bassleft · Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 11:09 pm Post subject:

, always interested in your replies, Jimmy. I know what you mean; in the last year I've hardly used a pick at all. The songs just don't call for it. I've moved up to 12" drivers now...

Funelly nuff, I just picked up a Marshall head today on behalf of a friend. The seller was also a bass player and he told me he was about to list his 2x18" cab Shocked

. I felt my back twinge even when he mentioned it. Of course, I was intrigued but I honestly can't see myself carting wardrobe/closet sized cabs around.

Must tell you one story, though. Back in the 90s, I was in a 2nd-hand shop called "Sound Deals" that I'd bought stuff from. They had a 21" speaker housed in (seriously, this is all true) a cement sewer-pipe section. They didn't have an amp that would turn it over. Don't know why, but I was absolutely cocksure my old Superbass would do it, so I went home to get it. I only turned the vol to about 3, then played.

Shocked

, it was as if the windows were bulging out and the floorboards were pulling the nails out of the joists. The shop owner was practically begging me to buy the thing. Awesome air-shifting, I had to admit, but I just couldn't see my car keeping the front wheels on the bitumen with that thing in the trunk. I had to pass on it...

Tim · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject:

Well, I haven't asked a dumb question for a while:

I just got me some heavy guage Elites (4-string) but when I came to fit them the full thickness section of the E string (as opposed to the skinny end bits) reaches the machine head so I'm going to have a couple of winds of this thickness. Is there any reason not to do this? Or if it fits should I just go ahead?

Thanks,

boogieman · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject:

You should be OK, although I am not certain what you mean. I have a 4 string bass set up with extra heavy ( .70 through 1.35 ) . It's tuned to low B, so I have had string-tuner problems.

Send me a personal email if you want and we can talk about it. Cool

Tim · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:33 pm Post subject:

Thanks Boogieman, I'll have a go over the weekend. I was just wondering as all my previous strings lost the full size (outer) winding shortly after the nut so they fitted nicely on the heads and this one doesn't but I think it'll be ok if I wind it properly?!

Thanks again,

boogieman · Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:31 pm Post subject:

It will work and sound OK. I have that problem on a couple of my basses that I have put extra heavy strings on and they work fine.

Play that Bass !!!! Cool

Tim · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:49 pm Post subject:

Finally got round to it, new heavy guage onto my electric and the old nickels off my electric onto my acoustic instead of the nasty, nasty phosphor bronze ones...both sounding much better for it, thanks for the advice Boogieman.

I'll go play now!

boogieman · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject:

I thought you would be OK. The only way you may have had trouble is if you were using the smaller mini tuners. A regular size tuner will amaze you as to how big a string it will take. Good luck and hope you are enjoying "cool" tone !!!! Cool

1bassleft · Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:11 am Post subject:

Hate phosphor bronze although, have to say Tim, recycling your nickels onto another guitar is a bit stingey. It's like our bent jacks in that other thread but even I wouldn't transplant the cheese cutters. Did it take a while for them to dekink or did you boil them first?

boogieman · Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:25 am Post subject:

Hey now 1bass, we are Bass Players and not those spoiled Guitar Player dudes. We make do with what we have and lay down the low end !! I actually know several guys who use well played "electric" bass strings on their acoustic basses and for a variety of reasons, really like it. Cool

Tim · Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject:

1bassleft wrote:

Hate phosphor bronze although, have to say Tim, recycling your nickels onto another guitar is a bit stingey. It's like our bent jacks in that other thread but even I wouldn't transplant the cheese cutters. Did it take a while for them to dekink or did you boil them first?

The point was to get something nice and dull on the acoustic, new strings sound bad enough on an electric but at least you can tweak the amp to compensate. With nicely 'worn-in' strings the acoustic is sounding pub-ready straight out of the blocks. Which is good as I should be playing in my local soon.

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