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Acoustic bass vs electric?

#47
Avalon said:
Hey Moonlight Bass,
I just have to post this. Everytime someone gets on about an acoustic bass, I have post this performance by Robin Gibb. The bass being played is a beast. It's an amplified acoustic. Everytime I hear it, I think that the tone is the best I've heard from an ABG.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G1cp_NRMqs

Of course, some people just like the backup singers. :cool:
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Yeah, there are the singers.... but nice tone.

I'll add a couple more.

 
#48
MD said:
Yeah, there are the singers.... but nice tone.

I'll add a couple more.

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I'll take the first one and the last one. Victor is Victor, but he does a really nice job here. I don't care for most of his fast, twangy solos, but this was really smoooove.

As for the last one, it sounded good and I love the look of that Takamine TB-10. A real touch of class.
 
#51
MoonlightBass said:
Correct.
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If you can get the string through the hole in the bridge, you can use that string. The only caveat is that an ultra thick high gauge string would not be wise to use as these bridge are only glued on, not screwed, and flat wound strings tend to have higher tension than round wound strings... think LaBella Jamersons. Light Chromes or TI Jazz Flats would be a no brainer. Tape wounds are good to if the gauge is small enough to make it through the bridge hole.
 
#52
Slowgypsy said:
If you can get the string through the hole in the bridge, you can use that string. The only caveat is that an ultra thick high gauge string would not be wise to use as these bridge are only glued on, not screwed, and flat wound strings tend to have higher tension than round wound strings... think LaBella Jamersons. Light Chromes or TI Jazz Flats would be a no brainer. Tape wounds are good to if the gauge is small enough to make it through the bridge hole.
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Which brings me back to: maybe I'm better off not using the ABG? Maybe I'm better off buying an electric so I can use the flats?

My ABG was made in 2001, so it's not ancient- but it is not necessarily a top of the line instrument either. I'd hate to rip the bridge off the thing. I'd also hate to end up buying strings that don't fit through the bridge.
 
#54
MoonlightBass said:
Which brings me back to: maybe I'm better off not using the ABG? Maybe I'm better off buying an electric so I can use the flats?

My ABG was made in 2001, so it's not ancient- but it is not necessarily a top of the line instrument either. I'd hate to rip the bridge off the thing. I'd also hate to end up buying strings that don't fit through the bridge.
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If your Takamine Jasmine bridge is the same, or at least has the same size string holes as my Takamine EG512, than I can tell you for a fact that it will accept a set of LaBella Tapes, 060-115; certainly a set of the afore mentioned, lighter gauge tapes. Also, keep in mind that the tapes are a roundwound core, so I don't think you'll have a tension issue.
 
#56
MD said:
If your Takamine Jasmine bridge is the same, or at least has the same size string holes as my Takamine EG512, than I can tell you for a fact that it will accept a set of LaBella Tapes, 060-115; certainly a set of the afore mentioned, lighter gauge tapes. Also, keep in mind that the tapes are a roundwound core, so I don't think you'll have a tension issue.
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I'll check on the bridge on the EG512. Hopefully they are the same size.
 
#57
MD said:
If your Takamine Jasmine bridge is the same, or at least has the same size string holes as my Takamine EG512, than I can tell you for a fact that it will accept a set of LaBella Tapes, 060-115; certainly a set of the afore mentioned, lighter gauge tapes. Also, keep in mind that the tapes are a roundwound core, so I don't think you'll have a tension issue.
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The strings on there now are 45-100 and it's a close fit. I doubt 60-115 will fit.
 
#58
In some ways, I think you're over thinking this. The ABG you currently have is totally suitable to the task at hand, which is to play in an orchestral environment, provided the conductor is cool with that. Any flat or tape wound string will essentially stop the finger noise issue. If you like a stiff feeling string, put on a light gauge set of Chromes. If you like a looser feeling string, put on a set of TI Jazz Flats. Plug the instrument into the combo amp you already have and you're good to go.

Of course, if you want to buy an electric bass.....;)
 
#59
Slowgypsy said:
In some ways, I think you're over thinking this...

Of course, if you want to buy an electric bass.....;)
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Yes and yes :D

I found D'Addario Chrome flatwound (ECB80) are the same gauge as what I got now- so unless they put too much tension on the neck and bridge I should be fine. I'll look at the other suggested string sets. I saw La Bellas are not recommended with my kind of bridge.

I also e-mailed Takamine customer service to see what they recommend.
 

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