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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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10-03-2008, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Jake deVilliers  Measure from the fingerboard to the underside of the strings at the end of the board. | From post #1, and in millimeters. |
10-03-2008, 10:49 PM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | | Thanks for the update on Rin-Tin-Tin Phil. That has the appearance of a pretty playable setup really. |
10-03-2008, 11:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | 6mm on G
11mm on E
(Dominant ADG, Spiro mittel E/C)
Mostly jazz, some classical. |
11-05-2008, 09:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: emmitsburg, maryland | | | no name jap steel (free)
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6- G
8- E |
11-15-2008, 01:31 AM
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HPF Technology: Protecting the Pocket since 2007 | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | Kay with Spirocore Mittels
7 -- G
8 -- E |
11-30-2008, 07:42 PM
|  | No Longer Works a Day Job | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: USA | | | 5mm G
7.5mm E
Spirocore Weichs on a Cleveland ply.
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11-30-2008, 07:48 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Black Diamond & Sensicore strings | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Iowa City, Iowa | | | G = 6mm
E = 9mm
Helicore Orchestra medium on American Standard with bridge moved up toward 42" string length. |
01-03-2009, 06:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Cambridge, UK | | 13mm on the G
15mm on the E
The bass is only a 38" scale so the strings are actually quite loose.
The strings are no name, cheap steel core strings that cost me £25 from " Gear 4 Music" (Their own brand it would seem). I was desperate and broke, and £112 for Spiro Weich's was very much out of reach.
Last edited by Dogos : 01-03-2009 at 07:09 PM.
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01-26-2009, 01:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wexford, PA | | | 8 mm G
12 mm E
Medium. I like being able to really dig in on jazz tunes, but I dont like wrestling down the strings in thumb position. |
01-29-2009, 09:56 AM
| | | | 6mm G
9mm E
07 Engle EG1 setup by Fretwell
Innovation Rockabilly Blacks
smooth like butter |
01-29-2009, 03:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia | | | G= 4.1mm
D= 5.3mm
A= 6.1mm
G= 8.7mm
i set my bass like this while doing a research project on eddie gomez in order to play his novelty-difficult solo lines
actually i find getting down too low hinders fast playing, i likea bit of resistance in the strings. i used to use spirocore weichs but moved to the mid gauge ones to give a bit of extra tension. good tension, good midsy flatback bass and low action makes for a great thumb position bass |
01-31-2009, 05:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Soquel, CA | | | Dlugolecki gut strings, wound E & A, plain D & G on a NS Cleveland ply.
7-8mm to 10-11mm, kinda in between but closer to 7-10.
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03-04-2009, 06:25 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: St. John's, NL, Canada | | | I recently read in a Bass Player mag that according to David Gage, Ray Brown kept his action at 5mm on the G and 9mm on the E.
I measured my bass, and voila! By coincidence, or something divine, I've always been using the same string height. |
03-04-2009, 09:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sweden | | | 9-12mm. Velvet Garbo E+A Artone gut D+G. Sounds great. |
03-09-2009, 10:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Houston | | | G = 5
D = 7
A = 8
E = 10
this is how my bass usually is (mostly arco playing) but when I do jazz I will lower it just a little. My bass plays really comfortably, as I had just switched from my schools bass which is about twice these measurements. |
03-26-2009, 10:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Hertfordshire, Uk | | | E and A - 18mm
D and G - 19mm |
03-26-2009, 10:59 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 Bassworm E and A - 18mm
D and G - 19mm | Yikes! What are you using for strings? |
04-04-2009, 08:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Long Beach, CA | | | Spirocore Weich
E 7mm
G 5mm
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04-04-2009, 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by kamakiriad7 I recently read in a Bass Player mag that according to David Gage, Ray Brown kept his action at 5mm on the G and 9mm on the E.
I measured my bass, and voila! By coincidence, or something divine, I've always been using the same string height. |
+1. |
04-04-2009, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by JtheJazzMan G= 4.1mm
D= 5.3mm
A= 6.1mm
G= 8.7mm
i set my bass like this while doing a research project on eddie gomez in order to play his novelty-difficult solo lines
actually i find getting down too low hinders fast playing, |
that's interesting....I've been thinking a bit about that too. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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