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Club Fbass (thread 13)

#882
sorgas said:
Hey guys!! Marcel told me 3 more weeks to finish my VF4, so excited, i can't wait, i got so many expectations on this one, especially about playability and comfort, i put a BN neck cause when i tested a BN4 a few month ago, the feeling was crazy!!!!

I'll keep you updated my friends
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Interesting, a BN neck on a VF. Please post a picture when you receive it, thanks Jim
 
#883
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Tom7 said:
The weird overtones and warbling you hear as you play up the fingerboard are because the magnets in the BN pickups are much stronger than most jazz-style pickups. When we press down the strings up the fingerboard, it puts the strings close enough to the magnets that the magnets pull on the string, causing it to vibrate unusually and make those tones.

If you lower your neck pickup a bit, it puts the magnets further from the strings which helps, but it may also affect the tone of the bass when other notes are being played. When my strings are fresh, I roll back the passive tone know to help mitigate the overtones. When my strings are broken in, the warbliness goes away.

That said, I sure like Fat Beams and High beams, but for my BN5 I like Ken Smith Slap Masters. They had an extra, super light string set that sounded great, played wonderfully, especially when tapping, and they were so light that there was no warbliness with them. But they've discontinued that really light gauge now.
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I get that the BN pickups are strong, but the weird overtones and warbling only come from F bass strings. This is my 3rd BN bass and I've had the same results each time. I've put 4 different string sets on my BN4 over the last two weeks, just trying different stuff, and the only ones that had the overtones are the F Bass strings. I adjust the saddles to comp for the height too. I can't be the only one who hears this with these strings. I'm not trying to bag on the F bass strings, I was just telling about my experience with them and was curious what other guys are currently using.
 
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#885
FunkyMcNasty said:
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I get that the BN pickups are strong, but the weird overtones and warbling only come from F bass strings. This is my 3rd BN bass and I've had the same results each time. I've put 4 different string sets on my BN4 over the last two weeks, just trying different stuff, and the only ones that had the overtones are the F Bass strings. I adjust the saddles to comp for the height too. I can't be the only one who hears this with these strings. I'm not trying to bag on the F bass strings, I was just telling about my experience with them and was curious what other guys are currently using.
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Were the other strings exposed core also ?
 
#890
FunkyMcNasty said:
Yeah, I don't know. I didn't mean to come off as complaining about Fbass strings, I was just curious what you guys were using today.
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I changed strings the day after I got my BN5 as I prefer nickel wound over stainless in general. Just use D'addario XL, 45-130. I remember a long way back in this thread that somebody was hearing overtones when playing chords in the higher registers and attributed it to the exposed core design. I didn't leave mine on long enough to form an opinion one way or the other and that was many years ago. Jim
 
#891
A lot of D'addario nickel users on here. I have used them on other basses and liked them well enough, but I tend to lean toward SS rounds. I like the idea of the exposed core strings, but they just don't work for me for some reason.
 
#892
FunkyMcNasty said:
A lot of D'addario nickel users on here. I have used them on other basses and liked them well enough, but I tend to lean toward SS rounds. I like the idea of the exposed core strings, but they just don't work for me for some reason.
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I don't know how much time and $$ you want to throw at this but it would be interesting to try another brand of exposed core strings and see if you can hear a difference. Jim
 
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Niiice!!
 

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FunkyMcNasty said:
I get that the be


I get that the BN pickups are strong, but the weird overtones and warbling only come from F bass strings. This is my 3rd BN bass and I've had the same results each time. I've put 4 different string sets on my BN4 over the last two weeks, just trying different stuff, and the only ones that had the overtones are the F Bass strings. I adjust the saddles to comp for the height too. I can't be the only one who hears this with these strings. I'm not trying to bag on the F bass strings, I was just telling about my experience with them and was curious what other guys are currently using.
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Yes, they come from Fbass strings because they are exposed core. That's what makes the strings soft even though the gauge is high. The exposed core over the saddles allows the string to be very supple and agile, making the string more helpless to the pull of the magnet.
 
#897
FunkyMcNasty said:
Yeah, I don't know. I didn't mean to come off as complaining about Fbass strings, I was just curious what you guys were using today.
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For the record, I didn't think you were complaining. This is a topic that has come up many times in the 16 or 17 years I've been on talkbass, and something most of us with BN4, BN5s and BN6s have experienced.

For many players, this doesn't matter because they don't play up the neck that often or that long. "There ain't no money up there," they say.

But for those of us who play chords, tap, and play solo (not in a mix), the warbling is tough to work around so we experiment with strings.
 
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Tom7 said:
For the record, I didn't think you were complaining. This is a topic that has come up many times in the 16 or 17 years I've been on talkbass, and something most of us with BN4, BN5s and BN6s have experienced.

For many players, this doesn't matter because they don't play up the neck that often or that long. "There ain't no money up there," they say.

But for those of us who play chords, tap, and play solo (not in a mix), the warbling is tough to work around so we experiment with strings.
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I didn't have much trouble with the fbass strings on my BN5. But i tried a 4 string set on one of my fender parts pj basses and had trouble with that warbling thing. I definitely think its the exposed core design rather than the brand.
 
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