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06-19-2009, 12:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: NorCal | |  Tension - loosey goosey righty tighty and reverse...
Sometimes when I play my bass it feels like the string tension
is loose and the strings vibrate like rubberbands. Other
times it feels like my string tension is tight and the strings
vibrate like steel cables. This can happen literally overnight
from one day to the next.
Am I going crazy?, is this really happening?, and why?
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06-19-2009, 12:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Marvelous, Texas | | | What kind of strings? Check the weather. |
06-19-2009, 12:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: NorCal | | | Jazzers
I do notice it tighter in the winter, but now that it's summer I'm getting both. Could it be caused by humidity? |
06-19-2009, 12:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Marvelous, Texas | | | Yes, humidity has the power to expand the wood of your bridge/bass and cause tighter strings. Do you have bridge adjusters? |
06-22-2009, 04:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: NorCal | | | Yes |
06-22-2009, 04:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NorCal | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Tibar  Am I going crazy?, is this really happening?, and why? |
Yes, yes, and also yes. |
06-22-2009, 04:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Madison, WI/Indianapolis, IN | | | Are you tuning up each time you play? also is the bass carved, hybrid or ply? I've noticed that on my new bass(carved, previous one was a hybrid) it takes about an hour of play before it wakes up for the day. I'm not sure if this is a phenomenon I can completely attribute to the bass, but I have noticed the play ability change over the day. |
06-23-2009, 09:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Baltimore | | | It might just be your perception, too. I go through phases where the physical size of my bass seems different. Some days I think "this thing isn't that big, it's quite a reasonable size." Other days I think "holy crap this bass is HUGE." Of course, that doesn't change. |
06-23-2009, 09:55 AM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by EggyToast It might just be your perception, too. I go through phases where the physical size of my bass seems different. Some days I think "this thing isn't that big, it's quite a reasonable size." Other days I think "holy crap this bass is HUGE." Of course, that doesn't change. | Nice! Not to mention the days when the string length seems to have changed dramatically, making intonation impossible. |
06-23-2009, 03:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: NorCal | | | It's plywood and I live on the water.
Maybe it's not so mysterious how this comes and goes...
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