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10-12-2010, 07:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Canada | | | Budget Gut Strings, Which Ones?
I am looking into getting some gut strings, just unwound D&G. Gamuts are no where near in my budget, neither are Dlugolecki's as I am just a student. I've been looking at Lenzners, Labella, and the Lemur Music guts. Any thoughts or opinions?
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10-12-2010, 07:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Played the Lenzners and the LaBellas. Both are ok. G's are better than the D's in my experience. D's are kinda "thunk". |
10-12-2010, 07:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Jackson, TN | | | In my experience, ditto what Marcus said. Here's an idea. If you lurk around long enough, you may score a great deal on some used Gamuts or Dlugolecki's with plenty of life remaining right here on these very boards. I did. Why not put a WTB ad out in the classifieds for a day or two and see what happens.
Good luck,
Thomas
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10-12-2010, 08:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson  Played the Lenzners and the LaBellas. Both are ok. G's are better than the D's in my experience. D's are kinda "thunk". | I was worried about the D string being thumpy and dead, I'm guessing it's of no use in thumb-position then?
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10-12-2010, 08:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Maybe. Depends on the bass, as usual. But my bass sounds good up there with the Gamuts, and it didn't with the cheaper guts. |
10-12-2010, 08:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Canada | | | That's true Marcus, on my school bass (1/2 Size Juzek Flatback) spiro weichs sound about as dark as Helicore Orchestra (crap) on my main bass which is a bright bass. I know that my mileage may vary and everybody's experience will differ I was just looking for some general opinions. I've also been looking at the Lenzner Jazz wound D and plain G. Has anybody tried the Jazz set?
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11-26-2010, 06:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: grantsboro n.c. | | | I've had the Clef jazz set on my bass for about a year now (wound e & a, plain d & g). I have been very happy with them so far. They speak well on my bass and are not very expensive, about $260.00 for the full set. |
11-26-2010, 10:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Orange County, Ca, | | | I was continually let down by cheapo guts. It made me switch back to steels.
If I could afford it, Gamuts would be the thing. Then I might make the switch back to guts. |
11-26-2010, 01:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Canada | | | After putting more thought into it, the best way to go for what I need would probably be an Olive G. Does anybody know how an Olive G matches with spiro weichs?
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11-27-2010, 09:02 PM
|  | Moderator Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Bloomington, IN | | | Quite well. I think mittels go best with Olivs on top, but weichs are great too. |
11-29-2010, 09:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Nashville, TN | | The Lenzner's aren't too bad. As mentioned, the cheaper D's can sound worse on some basses, but I've used a Lenzner D and it was OK. A $160 Gamut Pistoy Gut D is the bomb though  |
11-30-2010, 01:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Winnipeg, MB | | | I'm on my second set of Lenzner guts - just the D & G this time 'round. They take quite a bit of stretching in. The first set I had, the D was fairly useable once things got going (we're talking months, not weeks).
The pair I'm on now seems to be a bit darker than the first ones - maybe it's my imagination, or my bass has changed somewhat, or maybe there is enough variance in the finish product that one string will differ a fair amount from the next... Hard to say until I play the hell out of these for another few months. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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