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Double Bass Eurosonic ultra-light ??

ERIC A

ERIC A

Mar 9, 2004
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Baltimore/Washinton DC
#1
A fellow bassist has offered to sell me a set of eurosonic ultra-light strings for a very reasonable price. He told me that they sound great, but the tension feels incredibly low. In fact, he told me that when he put his gut strings back on his bass, they felt like steel. Has anybody else had the same experience?

Thanks!!
 
#3
I used to work for the company that imports the strings, promoting and developing them was my job.

I am surprised to hear that the gut strings are higher tension than the Eurosonic Ultra-Lights. I guess it just depends on the gut strings though...perhaps they are made of beef serosa instead of mutton serosa (beef results in a higher tension gut string).

There were two projects I was working on just before I left my previous employer. First was an even lighter tension Eurosonic set I was affectionately calling "Wicked-Ultra-Lights". The second was adding a 5th (low) string to the full line-up.

I am not sure how these are progressing now that I am not there, but I am curious to see what ends up hitting the market.
 
#6
Eric,
Is there a sensible tension difference between the lights and the mediums ? Which one is best suited for both jazz pizz and rockabilly slap ?

I love my Eurosonics, I just wonder if I'll stick with the lights or go for the med. And no sanding paper will ever get near those !

(Too bad for my bow. I wonder if my dog would like chewing pernambuco. :D )
 
#7
I'm working with arco at the moment so the Euronsonics had to come off my bass :crying: I was using 'lights' which i thought were great for feel,sound and appearance. I'm not sure i will be developing orchestral technique for much longer, it was really only to develop my intonation (bowing makes you work harder at fine tuning)

Any way when i go back to pizz only which is the plan i want to buy a set of ultra lights for the lower tension, apparently i've read their is no loss of volume and they give you a sound/feel closer resembling to gut with out the headaches normally associated with guts.

I've tried guts, they are huge and thumpy sounding and my bass did'nt take them at all. I like a little bit more definition which i felt came through with Euronsonics.

Like everyone else has said, DON'T BUY EUROSONICS IF YOU ARE PLANNING ON DOING ANY ARCO AT ALL. No AMOUNT OF SANDING WILL FIX IT!
 
#11
I just called Lemur and the woman on the phone said that Eurosonic has discontinued the Ultra Lights. That seems very weird to me considering that those had been their top selling string. Maybe they are redoing them so they can be bowed. That would be nice.
 
#12
JAS said:
I just called Lemur and the woman on the phone said that Eurosonic has discontinued the Ultra Lights. That seems very weird to me considering that those had been their top selling string. Maybe they are redoing them so they can be bowed. That would be nice.
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I work at JR Music Supply, the exclusive distributor of Eurosonic Bass Strings, for the past 3 years. I'm posting because there are rumors going around that Eurosonics went out of business, sold to Innovations, etc. This is WRONG information. I don't know how, or why this was started, but the manufactuer is still in business, and we are still the exclusive distributor of Eurosonic Lights, Ultra Lights, and Medium gauge strings. A new shipment is schduled for delivery here in a week, or two.

I hope this puts puts to rest any before mentioned rumors.

Dennis Frati
JR Music Supply
Exclusive Distributor of Eurosonic Bass Strings
 
#14
crocau said:
Excellent news ! The more I play your strings, the more I like them !
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Hey Crocau...Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate hearing from my peers. Your imput is what drives the succes of the Eurosonic line of strings.

If anyone has any questions, or comments they'd like to pass on to me, concerning Eurosonics, I'd like to hear it. Just shoot me an email at [email protected]/

Best,

Dennis
 
#16
What exactly is hard about bowing the eurosonics? Is it starting the note?
Sustaining it? Scratchy tone Similar to spiros on a plywood? I'm really looking for a string that's easier to slap but play arco on a few songs for the same gig. I don't want to go to plain gut because of the lack of sustain and tuning stability. Is there any other plain nylon wound strings that are more bowable?
 
#20
Taking em out of the envelope, they scared me - they're WHITE! They look like toy strings. I put on the G... sounds GREAT! Especially compared to what's on the fiddle, unknown strings with red bottoms and yellow tops. Bowable, too, but tending screechy... but the hump is beautiful. They have real character, wide dynamic range, very expressive. I put em all on. Looking forward to the tour now!!
 

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