Recent content by Bassalova

Hi there. This is for all you guys and girls living and working with music in London. I´m a music teacher at a norwegian so called Folkhighschool. It´s a kind of school that differs from the regular school system, giving young students the opportunity to work freely and explore music and not be...

Of course you dial in with the parametric. Easy to do with my Eden WT400. Then the source is the most important. I have tried RS on both my former bass and now my Grunert. I also have a female colleage that never got any decent sound from the RS. Maybe we have a strange taste for double bass...

I think that the RS is both a pretty nice pickup, and a very difficult pickup to use. It is nice, because it somehow sounds neutral and pretty much like an double bass directly into the board: in studio. But in live use you kind of need a little ekstra to the sound to cut through in the band...

A few weeks since I did the reassembly. I understand the parts inside were there for a reason. But after the reassembly I must say that the sound result was an improvement. As I presumed the sound would be something between the RS and the Underwood. In fact it came out to be one of the better...

Haa-haa! (Nelson, Simpsons) Just to be a little serious... The BC E really sucks!!!! I´ve been emailing with Bernard Rieger, one of the top guys in Thomastik I guess. He spoke about Thomastik having produced a new BC E-string prototype. That was like a year ago. I wonder why they are...

Hehe, maybe Mozart was the wrong reference :). And agressive the wrong word. What I meant was an A and E (specially E) that is both fast and fat in sound for "rapido" music. I agree with you that the BC´s blend extremely well with the rest of the section. For me it is also ipmortant to have...

I´ve been using them too for arco playing in an orchestra, and I still think it would be better with a mix. Specially the E is kind of dull. Sounds beautiful, but dull. If you´re playing more agressive and rapid stuff like Mozart etc, then I think Spiro E and A will give more bass "in your...

Trough the piezo and amp, its kind of ok. Acousticly: where did the A and E go? Playing with a trio or something makes the A and E disappear.

I did something terrible today:D Got kind of tired of my Revolution Solo 2, because it never completely satisfied my taste. And then I thought it would be fun to check out the construction. The wood was sanded down to almost nothing anyway, because of the serious small gap under the wings of my...

I have been reading some posts about Spiro mittels an weichs. I want to make a mix set of Bel Canto G and D, with Spirocore A and E. It´s come down t either the weichs or perhaps the solos. Which of these are the best match tensionwise, and also soundwise? BC´s are quite dark, so I´m thinking...

I read the Mittel/weich thread, but am more curious about the difference between the weichs and the solos. Mittels sound too much like a fretless bass

I tried to get some answers from the Bel Canto thread, but no response yet. I need a better E-string for my Bel Canto set, because the Bel Canto E is only useable for bowing. The BC E-string suchs for pizz. People talk about the Spiro mittel and weich. I have played the mittel set, but think...

Wouldn´t the Weich be the most natural choice, in terms of tension? I remember playing the Mittels on my former bass, and all strings were very fretless-like... when I tried the BC´s they were sort of "spiros without the fretless-sustain" and sweeter under the bow. However the E-string suchs...

I´m not sure if there is a Morodian dealer in Norway. Heard of Vader bags? They seem nice, and pretty solid.

I recently had an accident with my bass during transport, and the result is a nice big crack in the front, to the right of the bridge and endpin. The repair will be expensive, but the bass will probably be better than before, since it was somehow bad set up. I think there was quite a big tension...