Double Bass Custom?

[Mudfuzz]

Has anyone every had made or knows anyone that has had a string custom made for them? If so who made it? and Any ideas what companies would be worth even asking.

And no I'm not going to talk about my idea.

 

[Jake deVilliers]

You'd probably want to email Nuno at Velvet or Adrian Mueller at Pirastro. Innovation is maybe small enough to be flexible too.

 

[Mudfuzz]

You'd probably want to email Nuno at Velvet or Adrian Mueller at Pirastro. Innovation is maybe small enough to be flexible too.

Hmm I'll give that thought but I'm going the other way - BIGGER, LOWER, scarier.

 

[Mudfuzz]

And no I'm not going to talk about my idea.

Well that didn't work out did it

 

[Mudfuzz]

I think you should totally try that and get back to us on how it was.

 

[zeytoun]

I'll try to convince some of the rockabilly slap bassists that barbed wire is awesome for rockabilly street cred...

 

[FrostyBubba3455]

Been there.... rental basses on the road can be a bitch at times.

hahaha! mudfuzz, if you want bigger lower and scarrier i reccommend you try original flexocors. as with grapes and... other stuff... purple is the way to go!

 

[Jake deVilliers]

Hmm I'll give that thought but I'm going the other way - BIGGER, LOWER, scarier.

I meant that the company is smaller and more flexible, not the strings.

 

[fdeck]

I'll try to convince some of the rockabilly slap bassists that barbed wire is awesome for rockabilly street cred...

Also, you get an instant reminder if your intonation is wrong.

 

[Mudfuzz]

Mudfuzz... gotta ask.... what is not available from the gazillion DB string makers that you're not finding off the shelf?

A Low F# or even better a Low Low E, to be tuned an octave below low E.

 

[Mudfuzz]

On a double bass? Yeow. Good luck. Here's a suggestion...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octobass

Yep I know. This is for a EUB, so body size acoustics don't come into play. And they have been making SUB strings for BG for a while, and although I find this fun [I have a a BG tuned a octave below BEAD right now] I find the voicing of a BG with rounds limiting, and octave dividers [I have 5 of them I know what they do] and pitch sifters lose too much of the realness of you playing a string.

But well hmm, maybe I should look at Octobass string makers [if any] and see what I can find out, the only thing is I thought they were guts and I REALLY don't like gut strings.

Much to ponder

Aaron N

 

[Eli_Upright12]

Also, you get an instant reminder if your intonation is wrong.

Intonation?!? I thought we were talking about Rockabilly....

 

[Mudfuzz]

Invalid Link Removed is what I found so far, looks like a dead end really.

 

[Gearhead43]

Intonation?!? I thought we were talking about Rockabilly....

Testicles?!? No need for those to play Jazz....

 

[Eli_Upright12]

Testicles?!? No need for those to play Jazz....

Oh com'on I was bein facetious and sarcastic.




By the way your right, there are some pretty swing jazz ladies out there too.

 

[zeytoun]

If you can get the low string below 20Hz you can make people feel funny without even hearing a note...

 

[TroyK]

I think that might be the famed "brown note".

Now to get it to cut through the mix.

 

[Mudfuzz]

Really! Never mind the custom stringmaker, who's gonna build your speaker cabs?

I have a 18" and that works pretty well but if pushed to push http://www.accugroove.com/ makes some sick cabs for this very thing. Such as the whappo grande 800 watt 21" sub

 

[zeytoun]

Really! Never mind the custom stringmaker, who's gonna build your speaker cabs?

Yes, that's actually the main issue.

Or, you could set up two separate cabinets and transmit separate, but close frequencies to each one. The beating that results is of a frequency equal to the difference between the two frequencies.

(for example, if one frequency was 510Hz and the other was 500Hz, the resulting beating would be at 10Hz - infrasonic)

Then you can use various infrasonic pitches to induce various mental states (like cause people to go into Alpha or Theta states).

I know it's not quite the same as having a cabinet the size of my living room, but at least you don't have to worry about the liability of suffocating tall skinny people who happen to be standing to close...

 

[TroyK]

...and is there some musical idea in your head that requires this? Or you're trying to communicate with whales or what?