Recent content by SuperSloMo

I have a Greg Bennett Corsair MCR-1 sub-short scale bass that I wanted to sell on Craigslist. One guy called me about it and was all set to come look at it, but then he texted me and said that after getting advice he decided that if he ever needed or wanted to change strings it would be hard or...

Labella came out with flatwound strings for the Gold Tone ME-Bass, which has roughly the same scale length as your bass. MBLS MicroBass LaBella Flat Wound Strings They don't recommend putting them on their fretted Microbasses for intonation reasons though, so that might be a problem with them...

I have a Guild acoustic bass guitar. I bought some D'Addario half-round strings for it, and the G string is so much brighter than the other strings that it practically sounds like it is made of different material. Is there anything I can do about this?

I was reading the information about the Gold Tone ME-Bass, which is the solid body version of their Micro Bass. Their web page for it mentions that they have collaborated with LaBella to create a flatwound string called "MBLS MicroBass LaBella Flat Wound Strings". I would like to know if these...

It was recommended to me that I get GHS Pressurewound Bronze strings for my acoustic bass guitar, and I'm looking into it. I have a short scale ABG, and it looks like the Pressurewound Bronze strings only come in one length. The package says "37.25 Wind". Is that the string length? In any case...

Do the pressurewound strings feel like roundwound strings? Where along a spectrum of roundwound to flatwound does their pressure roller process put those strings in terms of feel? Do you know how they compare in feel and tone to D'Addario half round strings?

My bass came with D'Addario phosphor bronze strings on it, and I didn't like the sound for the lack of "bassiness". How do the GHS pressurewounds compare to them in this respect?

The phosphor bronze strings that came with an acoustic bass guitar that I bought were too bright with not enough bass, although they were nice and loud. I bought some tapewound strings which sounded great but muted even when I just played it with a couple of guitarists in a small living room. I...

I am wondering if the guitar finger caps that you see advertised sometimes would help me with a particular problem I have. I tore a ligament in the little finger on my left hand several years ago and although I had surgery on it, it doesn't bend right and the tip is crooked. Sometimes my little...

I wouldn't trust myself to do this, but I had a local music store technician lower the action of my B-240 and it plays very nice now.

It was ridiculously simple to fix this problem. I loosened the strings, popped the bridge off, and saw that a thin cable that was either the pickup or connected to the pickup was only stretched halfway across the groove under the bridge. I pulled across, put the bridge back on, tightened the...

I bought a Guild B-240E acoustic bass guitar this week via mail-order. I played it through an amp this morning, and I'm very disappointed in how it sounds. The lowest string is an order of magnitude louder than the highest string, with the middle strings falling between the two extremes. I tried...

Thanks for posting all of these pictures. That makes it really clear. It looks like all of these are tape wrapped around a roundwound string. Thanks for mentioning GHS. The web page for their tapewound string says "GHS Strings uses a mix of roundwound and flatwound strings, with a black nylon...

I would like to try using tapewound strings on my bass. I read that some tapewound strings are wrapped on roundwound strings and some are wrapped on flatwound strings. Is this true? The web pages of tapewound strings on the various manufacturers' web sites don't say anything about what their...

Mine looked completely different from yours. It had a blond neck with some kind of reddish wood for the fretboard, and it had large wooden pick guards on both sides of the sound hole. I have seen pictures of these basses that look different from yours and different from mine. I guess that shows...