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View Poll Results: What are your string heights? | |
4 - 5 mm G to 6 - 8 mm E
|    | 82 | 33.06% | |
6 - 7 mm G to 9 - 10 mm E
|    | 93 | 37.50% | |
8 - 9 mm G to 11 - 12 mm E
|    | 50 | 20.16% | |
Other - please post your numbers
|    | 23 | 9.27% |
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09-30-2008, 01:28 PM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | | String Height Poll
Hey gang, please let us know what your string heights are.
Measure from the fingerboard to the underside of the strings at the end of the board.
Thanks, Jake |
09-30-2008, 02:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Winnipeg, MB | | | I'm back to the full plain guts this week, so its a touch higher than normal:
G 11mm
D 11mm
A 9mm
E 8mm |
09-30-2008, 03:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland | | | 7-10mm, with spiro mittels. This is after a new fingerboard, so it plays quite comfortably. |
09-30-2008, 03:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | | my school's bass is about 20 mm on the E. We need a new bridge
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09-30-2008, 03:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Illinois | | | My G string is a little under 3mm, and the E string is a hair over 3mm. I can't imagine having it much higher. I had it a little lower a while ago, but raised it up so I could hit the strings just a little harder. I'll probably set it down when a get a stiffer set of strings than these Thomastik's. |
09-30-2008, 03:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chicago | | | I voted for the highest one though truthfully I'm at closer to 10mm for the E but 8mm for the G. |
09-30-2008, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by PBass101 My G string is a little under 3mm, and the E string is a hair over 3mm. I can't imagine having it much higher. | That's amazingly low. My E string is thicker than that! |
09-30-2008, 04:04 PM
| | | | 8 - 9 mm G to 11 - 12 mm E
Yup. that's how i'm set up. Seems low from where I'm coming from . . . . . but I would call it "medium high". |
09-30-2008, 04:05 PM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | PBass, you're over here on the burly DB side - even the women use bigger string heights than that!  |
09-30-2008, 10:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NorCal | | E - 11
A - 10
D - 10
G - 9
Perfect for guts. 
But I don't play Jazz. |
10-01-2008, 12:04 AM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | I didn't intend it to be a jazz-only poll, I just didn't know what I was doing when I made it!  |
10-01-2008, 01:54 AM
| | | | G=9mm
E=13mm
Velvet Garbo; Underwood; GK MB200; when is possible dynamic mic to PA. |
10-01-2008, 05:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: No' Cal (light) | | | i could only vote once on the poll but here's both:
on the "steel" bass: G 5mm, E 7.5mm
on the gut bass: G 8mm, E 10mm
Last edited by bonaventura : 10-01-2008 at 05:48 AM.
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10-01-2008, 10:33 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Southwestern NY | | | The heights may seem a little low considering this is a 7/8 with a 43 7/8" string length.
The strings are 4/4 Spirocore Mittel.
E - 9.5 mm
A - 8.75 mm
D - 8 mm
G - 7.75 mm
Lloyd Howard
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10-01-2008, 12:34 PM
|  | Student of Life Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Louisville, KY | | | 7-10mm with Dominant GDA and spiro stark E. Feels pretty tense but speaks quickly and with authority. |
10-01-2008, 12:38 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Colorado | | | I don't know the numbers ... but I like my action low ...
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10-01-2008, 01:39 PM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur; Mem. #1, EPC | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | | Dominants:
7.5 mm-- G
~11mm-- E |
10-02-2008, 06:50 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Apex, NC | | Spiro mediums (the package said 'medium', not 'mittel') :
11 mm G
13 mm E
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10-02-2008, 08:38 AM
| | | | I just looked at this again. After I put the Stark E back on the Alsatian Wonderdog I dropped my strings a turn. Stark E Mitt A/D/G is:
G= 7mm
E= 10mm
Downright low for me!
The Cleveland still has Spiro Stark E, Mitt A, and Gamut Heavy+ plain gut D/G. It's:
G= 9mm
E= 12mm
Funny how they both feel very similar regardless. |
10-03-2008, 02:28 PM
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