Trying to match new D-string to the other old ones. Tried Vaseline and BBQ sauce, and buried it for a couple days but still sounds too new. Any other ideas?
Play it? I find sweaty hands are able to kill the new sound quickly... just play under a hot light like you are at a gig, and it should die down in no time.
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'78 Rickenbacker 4001, '05 Fender J, G&L L-2500, GK 1001-RBII, Avatar B410 NEO
Black 'n' Maple Club - #002, 5 String Club - #158
Hmm maybe several intense endurance sessions (i.e., for as long as you can do it) of heavy tremolo picking with your right hand and heavy string bending up and down the fretboard with your left hand.
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Hollowbody Bass Club #121, Hondo Club #002, Official Short Scale Bass Club #018, Short-Scale Six-String Bass Club #001, Epiphone Club #010, can't recall what other clubs I'm a member of here...
Trying to match new D-string to the other old ones. Tried Vaseline and BBQ sauce, and buried it for a couple days but still sounds too new. Any other ideas?
Try furniture cream or beeswax on th estrings, works for me
I find sweaty hands are able to kill the new sound quickly... just play under a hot light like you are at a gig, and it should die down in no time. 
