SPECTOR® Club - Part 29

[Jaymi]

Originally Posted by bassgiant15

Awesome bro!! Great tone. I hope to make one of these this week with my SVP Pro.

use your NS2A

[husky123]

I wanna hear that SVP Pro too. I've been on the fence about one of those for a loooong time.

[husky123]

Hey guys on another note. Check out my sig. That bass (EBMM Sterling) has been my workhorse, my number 1 for a long time now. I never thought I'd EVER get rid of that bass. Along comes Spector and....BANG...she's up.

[bassgiant15]

Originally Posted by Jaymi

use your NS2A

Will do. I plan on taking my ns2a and euro . They'll be tuned differently, but it'll be cool to hear the difference.

[worshiprocker]

Originally Posted by JeffplaysBass

Hell and back!!...whats up Donny, hows the band?

Band is going well... Just booked a metal festival in April

I started adopting your purchasing philosophy too, lol. If I want it I'm getting it!

Good to have ya back

Originally Posted by justynsena

Getting my third Spector Euro435LX in May.... Just started playing Spector a couple months ago. I love em. I bought two right off the bat from Spector and now I have to have a third. I'll be buying a forth bass towards the end of the year. I love them too much perhaps!

Ya that seems about right

[Worldeeeter]

Originally Posted by havuk

i'm expecting my bass this week, i'm going to put on some new strings, what's everyone using?

LaBella Hard Rockin' Steels

[Clearwave]

Originally Posted by havuk

i'm expecting my bass this week, i'm going to put on some new strings, what's everyone using?

DR lo riders steel on NS2a.
DR hi beams steel on the other NS2a.

[GBassNorth]

Originally Posted by Clearwave

DR lo riders steel on NS2a.
DR hi beams steel on the other NS2a.

I'm still running the stock strings (whatever those are) on my REX5 and loving the growl and agressive tone they give. I'm considering some Cobalts when it comes time for a string change to see how much more agressive this thing can get. Or I may go with the highly recommended DR Black Beauties on the REX like I've done on most of my Stingrays. Time well tell. I'm waiting to hear some long term reports on the Cobalts, like after 6 months of play time how do they sound vs new.

[evanatch]

So tonight and last night, I had my high school talent show. I played "Hysteria" by Muse and added my own solo at the end. It was a lot of fun and people seemed to love the Rex and the DR Neon strings. The Rex sounded and played great playing fingerstyle and tapping! Here's the video of me playing (sorry about the poor quality, my dad was filming this from the audience with a hand held camera):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBJDC8N-mNg

[grendle]

Great vids!

[grendle]

Ok , so here's my take on the cobalts after a 5 hr practice.

I haven't played strings that sound like these before. Their Definatly louder than hi beams by quite a bit. I had to turn down from my usual practice volume. They sound really good. Their new, bright , and have a big bump in the hi mids but don't have that zing of new steel strings. Well they are zingy acousticly but that zing doesn't come through when amplified. They give up a little bottom still to the hi beams though. In the studio or a recording situation I strongly believe these would shine and be my top choice for that kind of thing.

I was able to get great tones with very little eq on these, and solo the bass sounded great. The closest thing I can compair these to would be broken in blue steels. Imo the cobalt are a better sounding string though. They really let the harmonics jump and come very easily. They have a focused tone and I think a lot of people are really going to like these strings

The tension on these is good, they should be great for tuning down as well. They are noticeably tighter than hi beams ( we tune to dropped c# ) and they weren't floppy at all. I tuned them down to B just to check them out and they still felt good.

Will these be my new strings ? Unfortunalty no, at least not for live stuff, for the studio? Yes. My prefrence is for hi beams still. They have a fuller tone imo. and after playing these , I do really miss the zing they have. That extra little sizzle on the high end and and the fuller low end work well for me live. They give that little extra hair I like and just sound more solid to me on the bottom end. In the studio though, that extra sizzle doesn't usually come across like it does live, and a little less bottom end with more focused mids is a welcome thing. These strings didn't transfer much if any pick noise which can be a cool thing also under the microscope.

I would Definatly recomended them as they are a different animal from what's out there. I think these will be the string of choice for a lot of people. I sooo want to hear these on a fretless. I think these might be "The string" for fretless.

I'm going to leave them on and continue playing with them and see how they hold up. Due to the nature of the tone these have I think life should be pretty good to excellent. Since their not zingy like steels when amplified from the start, even when broken in they will probably sound somewhere like new nickles. Just my .02

[worshiprocker]

I ordered a set of DR drop tune strings today.... they will be going on my CR4FM ..... I will post a review... I currently have rotosounds on my bass and when I hit the low C# I get some weird overtones.... they are crisp, but I'm excited to hear the DRs....

[JeffplaysBass]

Originally Posted by seventhframe

Made a short video with the NS-2 today...Apparently my camera has one leg in the grave. Crappy sound and video...sorry :P

SPECTOR NS-2 - YouTube

Nice one Mr. Sanford!

[JeffplaysBass]

[quote=worshiprocker;12390983]Band is going well... Just booked a metal festival in April

I started adopting your purchasing philosophy too, lol. If I want it I'm getting it!

Good to have ya back

Thats what I am talking about!!...Festival in April, Buying like there is no tomorrow!!!...what more could you ask for?

[JeffplaysBass]

Originally Posted by evanatch

So tonight and last night, I had my high school talent show. I played "Hysteria" by Muse and added my own solo at the end. It was a lot of fun and people seemed to love the Rex and the DR Neon strings. The Rex sounded and played great playing fingerstyle and tapping! Here's the video of me playing (sorry about the poor quality, my dad was filming this from the audience with a hand held camera):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBJDC8N-mNg

Couldn't hear very well but like the movement in the fingers!!...Good Job Evan!

[JeffplaysBass]

My buddy playing his white Ns2a....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXsuAtQa1bI

[Lorne]

So nobody gives out numbers for this club then?

[delucajohn2000]

Originally Posted by Lorne

So nobody gives out numbers for this club then?

Have you sent a PM to Tracebassplayer? He is the one that gives out the numbers but I know he has been busy lately. If he's not responding to you, we might have to send in the Limaguy

[GBassNorth]

Originally Posted by evanatch

So tonight and last night, I had my high school talent show. I played "Hysteria" by Muse and added my own solo at the end. It was a lot of fun and people seemed to love the Rex and the DR Neon strings. The Rex sounded and played great playing fingerstyle and tapping! Here's the video of me playing (sorry about the poor quality, my dad was filming this from the audience with a hand held camera):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBJDC8N-mNg

Evan, WELL DONE!
Very impressive left hand technique, lots of fluid movement, fast fretting and even alternative tap style thrown in at the end. The recording didn't allow a lot of the bass sound to come through but what I did hear sounded great. Not sure how long you've been playing bass but I'm very impressed.
I find the REX5 perfect for a lot of the Muse songs with my favorite being Uprising. I think their bass player plays a Fender P bass on that song but the REX just sits in the mix so well for this type of music.

[sprocket123]

Originally Posted by bunkaroo

Soon to be 4!

Nice Spectors you got there