Recent content by Downright_Low

I think the bow friction is what works the best, too. When you bow the rosin, or rosin the bow, it does not matter which way you apply, you will bow bth ways later anyway in playing. also felt that with more application you can achieve "more" "grab", which to me is actually just a different...

I have a relative who said he used lebezeller for a time and now it's discontinued. Of course, he was a violinist, but that may only mean more.... I hope I could try it anyway.

are you fing serious...? just because I have to re-log-in the whole damn message is gone..? That took too long to begin with. Any way, thanks to you all for keeping this thread interesting. This will be the first part of what I was going to say the first time... I'm trying the...

Thanks for your responses... all very intersting. I've gone off and put back my Original Flexocors. Whole set. Dang, now I remember why I took these off - so hard to press with my left hand... I need to make them just low enough... Also, this set's A is very powerful - I'm not sure it's...

well, thanks for not answering the question, Francois!!! J/k.... :) the soundpost issue is a real factor, with which I'm actually pretty experienced, I'd say, for a player. As the soundpost is moved outward, or is it East?, toward the C bout, the G string side, the loss of core sound and...

Dear TB, I was just wondering, what E string is the heaviest? I know, it could all be subjective... I've mostly dabbled with the Medium gauges of different strings (Obligato, Flexocor, Original Flexocor, Helicore, Superflexible, which are all nice in their own ways...) - maybe it's...

... I guees I'm missing the low end difinition. When I think of that deifinion I think of a presence, a strong frequency, and then there's a cut-off, a void in sound, under that. The nice thing about soft strings is their subtle sounds, and there's a fit in between, so I feel like I need more...

You've actually made some good points that I sometimes forget to write. I've been using many different rosins for a while and learned what you have heard with the brilliance... it's all about that sound you want. If you are worried about mixing rosins onn the bow you can just not rosin until...

You can rosin in both directions, it doesn't matter and it helps spread out the rosin faster on all sides of the hairs in and in all the teeth. Anyway when you go to bow and up bow it will do the same thing, so there's no difference, just that you will have enough to go around when you start...

Does anyone here have any knowledge with cello rosin, or violin rosin for that matter, used on bass? I'm curious if anyone else has had positive results with off the basic Nymans, Oak, Carlsson, Kolstein pattern? What did you like about it? I guess I'm looking for somehow a different sound...

I wonder how Thomastik-Iinfeld rosin compares.....mittel. Maybe the soft would make more obvious sense (but hearing both would show what common in them both). I like to think of similarcolored rosins: Glaesel Super Sensitive Bass Rosin light Pirastro Bass mittel Thomsatik-Infeld mittel...

I like pops in all its glory, old or new. I found a crusted cake a couple of months ago, and I have my own, which is probably 2 years old now, almost exactly. When it's older it reminds me of when I put on exceeive amounts and the next 7 days it's sticky and gets dryer and drier... I like...

I want to get some medium or hard from them... I have the soft and think it's like the silkiest... I have Petz hard, so maybe to compare I'll get the hard and then if I want inbetween I can just mix on my own... I've always wanted to try that more intentinoally...

I feel that the flexocor 92's had a small sort of E that was very response to my memory - I only played it for 9 months... I think it's a good idea to try the mittels with a weich E. It might make everything else sound really good. I've played on smaller strings and liked it so I wonder what...

hmm, nice sound, somehow modest.... Do Evah Pirazzzi strings have a shelf? Is there any harm in not having them on my bass? I hope not, since they are supposed to be impervious to climate change...thanks. I've been wanting to ask that for a while.