Double Bass String Height Poll

[Jake deVilliers]

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

 

[moles]

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

 

[Martin Beer]

7-10mm, with spiro mittels. This is after a new fingerboard, so it plays quite comfortably.

 

[IconBasser]

my school's bass is about 20 mm on the E. We need a new bridge

 

[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. 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.

 

[Marc Piane]

I voted for the highest one though truthfully I'm at closer to 10mm for the E but 8mm for the G.

 

[Uncletoad]

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!

 

[anonymous02282011]

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".

 

[Jake deVilliers]

PBass, you're over here on the burly DB side - even the women use bigger string heights than that!

 

[Gearhead43]

E - 11
A - 10
D - 10
G - 9

Perfect for guts.

But I don't play Jazz.

 

[Jake deVilliers]

I didn't intend it to be a jazz-only poll, I just didn't know what I was doing when I made it!

 

[tito mangialajo]

G=9mm
E=13mm
Velvet Garbo; Underwood; GK MB200; when is possible dynamic mic to PA.

 

[bonaventura]

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

 

[lhoward]

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

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

7-10mm with Dominant GDA and spiro stark E. Feels pretty tense but speaks quickly and with authority.

 

[Ric5]

I don't know the numbers ... but I like my action low ...

 

[drurb]

Dominants:

7.5 mm-- G
~11mm-- E

 

[bolo]

Spiro mediums (the package said 'medium', not 'mittel') :

11 mm G
13 mm E

 

[Uncletoad]

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.

 

[Dad Bass]

Where are we measuring from?