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View Poll Results: How often do you change your strings? | |
Every gig! (Or every few weeks) Fresh sounds!
|    | 9 | 7.89% | |
Every few months
|    | 62 | 54.39% | |
About once a year
|    | 22 | 19.30% | |
Multiple years between changes
|    | 18 | 15.79% | |
I have never changed my strings
|    | 3 | 2.63% |
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10-11-2007, 10:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Boise, ID USA | | | How often do you change your strings?
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The thread about boiling/soaking old strings got me thinking. How often do TB players change 'em?
Post the answer that is closest to how often you change your strings. |
10-11-2007, 10:06 PM
|  | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | whenever i feel like it!
...which turns into every 6-8 weeks, typically. 
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10-11-2007, 10:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Boise, ID USA | | | Forgot my answer...
I'm old school. I go multiple years between changes. Last change was to go from rounds to flats. The string manufacturers must not like me very much. |
10-11-2007, 10:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas | | well,
with rounds about every month,
(Roto 66's)
and with Flats, first set, 6 months now, never really plan on changing them 
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10-12-2007, 12:46 PM
|  | Serve the song... | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cincinnati/Dayton, Ohio | | | I use SS rounds. I play two times per week and change my strings about every other month.
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10-12-2007, 12:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Gloucester, UK | | | I have a set of flats that are on their 4th bass now...
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10-12-2007, 03:38 PM
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I have a set of flats that are on their 4th bass now...
| Wait...you keep strings...change bass...keep strings...change bass...keep strings....change bass...
Dude, you're giving me a paradigm shift. Maybe you should try soaking your basses in denatured alcohol, or something... |
10-12-2007, 03:44 PM
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10-12-2007, 03:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Ireland | | | Every fortnight or so. I hate the sound of old strings... |
10-12-2007, 05:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Seattle, Washington | | Since I've discovered TI strings...just about never
TI Jazz Rounds on my Stambaugh and Guild Starfire are both about a year old. No plans to change them anytime soon. TI Jazz flats on my DeArmond are about 16 months old. TI Acousticores on my Kinal for about a year. They just keep sounding better and better.
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10-12-2007, 05:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | | the basses with nylon tapes never get changed...the basses with nickel rounds get changed every couple of months with "refurbished" strings (I've recently gone from alcohol wash to washing machine) ...a new set of strings gets put into the rotation every year or so... |
10-13-2007, 12:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Gloucester, UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave R Wait...you keep strings...change bass...keep strings...change bass...keep strings....change bass...
Dude, you're giving me a paradigm shift. Maybe you should try soaking your basses in denatured alcohol, or something... | I've finally found a Bass I'm happy with for the while. Squier VMJ
The Peavey is now my spare Axe and the first two (Encores) have been mojo'd and now hang on the wall as decoration... I'd not get much money for them... they now look like nicely aged Fenders...
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10-13-2007, 01:58 AM
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Endorsing Artist; Schroeder Cabinets | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Humboldt Ca | | | I change them every two months. And try to keep them clean. |
10-13-2007, 08:28 AM
| | | | About every 6 months for me. Usually when I start to hear the B and E strings starting to sound a bit too soft & boomy. Just started trying out Ernie Ball Slinkies after about 10 years playing RS Swings. |
10-13-2007, 01:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: MT | | | every few months, which for me has turned into whenever I break my b or e...
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10-13-2007, 11:45 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Rounds I change every 4-5 gigs. Flats, well I just went 7 years and put a new set on. This business about never changing flats was fine for a while, but they get to a point where they can't get any deader, and then they have zero definition, and I do like a slight bit of definition with the flats. |
01-26-2011, 09:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | changing strings
flats. NEVER. I move them bass to bass. I'm on a set of chromes for a 5 string that I've had on several basses. I have had them at lest 5 years and they were used when I got them.
once, I bought a new set, cause I thought I needed new strings. They didn't sound right, so.... They were promptly removed and are still sitting in their little envelopes.
I'll change these strings when they break or won't hold tune.
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01-26-2011, 09:53 PM
| | Registered User | | | | | changing strings
Oh yeah, did the same thing with Labella tapewounds. Had a Rob Allen mb, did not like the new ones, put the old ones back on and kept playing them till I finally sold the bass. (which BTW was a really dumb thing to do)
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01-27-2011, 01:01 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: New Hampshire | | | once I find a string that sounds right with a particular bass....I usually don't change 'em unless a string breaks or something.
Tapewounds on my fretlesses, Coated roundwounds on my fretted Jazz, Flatwounds on pretty much everything else. |
01-27-2011, 01:44 PM
| | | | With rounds, around every 6 weeks or so.
With flats, never unless I want to try a different set. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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