When I called Göran Ehrlund and asked him about writing a review of his pickup on a
Swedish Basblog site, he suggested that I also get in contact with Gerold Genssler
beacause ”my pickup sounds very good with his strings” -he said.
I emailed mr Genssler and I described what I play, what bass I have and a link to my ”
myspace”.
This is the letter mr Genssler sent me:
Hello Kristian,
as you know I make custommade strings, mainly gutstrings for doublebass.
Generally speaking there are 4 types of core I use:
-thick black gut (stabil in tune, no breaking) - sets are: sonores ORIGINAL
2010, sonores ORIGINAL Jazz, sonores ORIGINAL solo
-thin black gut (stabil in tune, no breaking) - sets are: sonores DRAGO
orch./solo
-thin fibre core (similar to steelstrings but easier to play, loud and
clear) - sets are: sonores RED LABEL basso/solo/cool
-pure gut (plain gut or wrapped) - sets are: sonores WRAP, sonores B-Roque
Most interesting for "gut players" are ORIGINAL 2010 which work great as
well both pizz and arco and ORIGINAL Jazz which are special designed for
acoustic Pizz-players.
The DRAGO's are thin strings for modern bowing technique and jazz as well.
RED LABEL are thin metal wound strings which are easily to bow, in the
"cool" version they are also great for modern jazz.
Last but not least I make also some sets from natural gut for "purists"
which are of superb sound quality but with the disadvantage that they aren't
so stabil in tune.
For further information please contact me:
sonores@gmx.de
Best regards
Gerold Genssler
Bassist and stringsmaker
Now I´ve had my REDLABELS(cool) on my bass for about 2 weeks and I couldn´t be happier! My
bass has never sounded this good and has never had this much volume.
The strings are also very easy to play, both pizz and bow. The sustain is really sweet and they
have a very ”open” sound.
At first I was afraid that I should have problems to play them because of the low tension but
after one gig I had gotten used to them and now I can´t think of using a string with heavier
tension. :-) Mr Genssler gives you a 2 year guarantee on all his strings!! He also makes all kinds
of gutstrings so next time I guess I´ll try one of these. If he can make a steelstring sound this
good then I have to know how his gutstrings sounds!
And yes, the Ehrlund pickup sounds very good with these strings!
