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GHS Balanced Nickel strings

#621
TheIndieKid said:
If you review your strings like food and drink, Linnin, how do Linnin’s Food Reviews go down?
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Funny you should ask, @TheIndieKid, while not a food review how about tasting notes for 2004 Old Forester Birthday Bourbon?
Nose: This a great looking Bourbon that is a deep orange drenched amber that almost glows. I have been nosing this Birthday Bourbon for about an hour now. This is a tough one to unlock, and a splash of spring water does help a bit. It has a very well balanced and very complex nose.
This Bourbon ROCKS! In center stage just like the bass player and drummer locked 'in the pocket' - the corn and char are locked into a deep and propulsive groove. Instead of vanilla there is chocolate! This is a first for me and a pleasant surprise. The chocolate plays a fill just like a Hammond B-3 tone wheel organ through a Leslie rotating speaker tone cabinet. If you've ever heard a B-3 live you'll remember it's thick rich powerful sound just as chocolate is thick, rich, and satisfying. Dill; thyme, nutmeg , and cinnamon sing harmony with roses in their hair. Apple plays a soulful rhythm guitar. The big powerfully soulful nose is all about balance and harmony. No soloists here.
Taste: Excellent mouth coating viscosity.
Semi-sweet chocolate center and tingly spices mid-palate. Just a hint of the apple on the tip of the tongue.
Finish: The very soulful finish starts out deceptively smooth and sweet with a lightly strummed attack with ample sustain. There is a little heat and as the finish decays the four part spice harmony from the nose reverberates in a classic Stax fade out.
 
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#622
Linnin said:
Funny you should ask, @TheIndieKid, while not a food review how about tasting notes for 2004 Old Forester Birthday Bourbon?
Nose: This a great looking Bourbon that is a deep orange drenched amber that almost glows. I have been nosing this Birthday Bourbon for about an hour now. This is a tough one to unlock, and a splash of spring water does help a bit. It has a very well balanced and very complex nose.
This Bourbon ROCKS! In center stage just like the bass player and drummer locked 'in the pocket' - the corn and char are locked into a deep and propulsive groove. Instead of vanilla there is chocolate! This is a first for me and a pleasant surprise. The chocolate plays a fill just like a Hammond B-3 tone wheel organ through a Leslie rotating speaker tone cabinet. If you've ever heard a B-3 live you'll remember it's thick rich powerful sound just as chocolate is thick, rich, and satisfying. Dill; thyme, nutmeg , and cinnamon sing harmony with roses in their hair. Apple plays a soulful rhythm guitar. The big powerfully soulful nose is all about balance and harmony. No soloists here.
Taste: Excellent mouth coating viscosity.
Semi-sweet chocolate center and tingly spices mid-palate. Just a hint of the apple on the tip of the tongue.
Finish: The very soulful finish starts out deceptively smooth and sweet with a lightly strummed attack with ample sustain. There is a little heat and as the finish decays the four part spice harmony from the nose reverberates in a classic Stax fade out.
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He’s only gone and done it :smug: is that like an anniversary bourbon or is it one you’ve received for your birthday? Curious about the name because I don’t drink much.

I should buy a set of Balanced Nickels again. Debating whether it’s necessary though, considering my bass already had Precision flats on.
 
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TheIndieKid said:
is that like an anniversary bourbon or is it one you’ve received for your birthday? Curious about the name because I don’t drink much.
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Old Forester Birthday Bourbon celebrates the birthday of George Garvin Brown. Very limited release.
TheIndieKid said:
I should buy a set of Balanced Nickels again. Debating whether it’s necessary though, considering my bass already had Precision flats on.
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No, you should not. Leave your flats on. Don't worry about it until you have another strictly roundwound bass.
 
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Linnin said:
No, you should not. Leave your flats on. Don't worry about it until you have another strictly roundwound bass.
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I bought my 1962 AVRI Precision Bass intending for it to be a flatwound bass, and that has been mostly what has been on it. And likewise, I intended for my American Standard Jazz Bass to use roundwounds. But after nearly a year with BNs on the Precision bass, I am wondering if I should switch those two intentions.
 
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trothwell said:
I bought by 1962 AVRI Precision Bass intending for it to be a flatwound bass, and that has been mostly what has been on it. And likewise, I intended for my American Standard Jazz Bass to use roundwounds. But after nearly a year with BNs on the Precision bass, I am wondering if I should switch those two intentions.
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Do It! There are plenty of bass players that string up their Jazz in flats. No reason not to.
 
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#628
Linnin said:
Do It! There are plenty of bass players that string up their Jazz in flats. No reason not to.
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I think I will!

And it might be a little bit like sandblasting a soup cracker, after being mostly with flats and now BNs, but I just ordered a set of GHS Super Steels to try on the Precision bass. That could be overdoing it, but I want to give it a try. If I don't like, will return to the BNs.
 
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#629
Linnin said:
Funny you should ask, @TheIndieKid, while not a food review how about tasting notes for 2004 Old Forester Birthday Bourbon?
Nose: This a great looking Bourbon that is a deep orange drenched amber that almost glows. I have been nosing this Birthday Bourbon for about an hour now. This is a tough one to unlock, and a splash of spring water does help a bit. It has a very well balanced and very complex nose.
This Bourbon ROCKS! In center stage just like the bass player and drummer locked 'in the pocket' - the corn and char are locked into a deep and propulsive groove. Instead of vanilla there is chocolate! This is a first for me and a pleasant surprise. The chocolate plays a fill just like a Hammond B-3 tone wheel organ through a Leslie rotating speaker tone cabinet. If you've ever heard a B-3 live you'll remember it's thick rich powerful sound just as chocolate is thick, rich, and satisfying. Dill; thyme, nutmeg , and cinnamon sing harmony with roses in their hair. Apple plays a soulful rhythm guitar. The big powerfully soulful nose is all about balance and harmony. No soloists here.
Taste: Excellent mouth coating viscosity.
Semi-sweet chocolate center and tingly spices mid-palate. Just a hint of the apple on the tip of the tongue.
Finish: The very soulful finish starts out deceptively smooth and sweet with a lightly strummed attack with ample sustain. There is a little heat and as the finish decays the four part spice harmony from the nose reverberates in a classic Stax fade out.
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I think i saw one of those particular bottles in a specialty liquor store for $600 a couple of weeks ago. :wideyed: I almost picked up a bottle of the 1920 Prohibition but just couldn't do it $.
Ahem! Now that I started salivating...what do you guys use to clean drool off strings? ;)
Best wishes
Brent

PS A few weeks ago I was able to secure a dram of Van Winkle 12. It was the end of the bottle so they only charged me as if it were the 10. :) Which they also had in stock amazingly.

 
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BrentSimons said:
I think i saw one of those particular bottles in a specialty liquor store for $600 a couple of weeks ago.
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That bottle was sent to me shortly after it was released by a friend that wanted me to write some tasting notes. I can no longer indulge much at all. Just here and there. I no longer take whiskey writing seriously. Same thing with cigars.
 
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#633
trothwell said:
I just ordered a set of GHS Super Steels...
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trothwell said:
I think I will!

And it might be a little bit like sandblasting a soup cracker, after being mostly with flats and now BNs, but I just ordered a set of GHS Super Steels to try on the Precision bass. That could be overdoing it, but I want to give it a try. If I don't like, will return to the BNs.
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So, based on my own past experiences, and based on researching this forum, I decided that Fender flats would probably be my favorite pick on the Jazz bass. However, I already had a few sets of other flats sitting around, that I had tried in the past on one bass or another, so I thought I'd first cycle through those sets and see if any of them spoke to me.

They all spoke to me! They all said, "You do not want flats on your Jazz bass! (But you do want a tasty potato knish!)"

Since I was taking the Balanced Nickels off of the Precision bass in order to try out the new Super Steels (in-depth post on that forthcoming), I went ahead and put the ~9-month-old BNs onto the Jazz bass.

Awesome! Even at nine months old, I think these are a winner on the Jazz bass too. The sound to me like worn in (but not yet dead) Rotosound 66, which I like a lot. Good depth, good midrange presence. But without the finger and fret grating roughness. So I think I will keep these BNs on the Jazz bass until they need to be replaced, with a fresh set of BNs.

GHS Balanced Nickels! Persisting in never failing to disappoint!
 
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My GHS Balanced Nickels arrived in the post today, all the way from the USA to New Zealand, From Strings by Mail, in great time and for a reasonable price :laugh:. Unfortunately it's well after 10:00pm here, I've just got home, and I haven't eaten yet, so I'm not going to get the bass restrung until tomorrow night :(. Argh!

More tomorrow...
 
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#639
I've taken the BNs off and replaced them with hex core boomers. The BNs do have a pretty sound and feel good. I bought these after getting to much hi mid from Dunlop Super Brights but these swing too far in the other direction. Nice sound but too laid back in a band mix for me. So far the boomers seem like a good middle ground but I'm waiting to see how they age after reading all the posts here about them dying very quickly.
 
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