Oops, didn't notice (and I always berate my friends for not being observant on their devices), delivery should be no problem for you. That link above is the one I've seen too.
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Oops, didn't notice (and I always berate my friends for not being observant on their devices), delivery should be no problem for you. That link above is the one I've seen too.
Picked up a fretless 23" strung with Silverbacks. Swapped them for the TGs. Then last week I put the Silverbacks on the fretted and *voila* intonation was perfect! How it is that the strings could have been the culprit in the bad intonation (I mean, it was waaay out), I don't understand. Whatever! Even though I prefer the TG sound, I'll enjoy them on the fretless and keep the silverbacks on the fretted.
Sample of the badly-intonated fretted before I changed the strings
(good enough for rock-n-roll I guess!)
Frustrated.
Plugged the fretted with the Silverbacks into my little Roland practice amp and found the string noise on these roundwounds to be extreme through the piezo. On top of that it became apparent that the D string is much lower in volume than the rest, which I hadn't noticed with the TG strings on it, though it might have been an issue before... Is that something I should get looked at by a luthier?
Plugged the fretted with the Silverbacks into my little Roland practice amp and found the string noise on these roundwounds to be extreme through the piezo. On top of that it became apparent that the D string is much lower in volume than the rest, which I hadn't noticed with the TG strings on it, though it might have been an issue before... Is that something I should get looked at by a luthier?
I found the same thing with a few different round wound strings, as did the other bass player in my uke group. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't stop the string noise, so I will never use them. I've also had the same problem with the volume balance, one remedy I used was to cut apart the plastic saddle so each piece presses on the individual pickup element underneath it. I also found that the string went bad.
String noise is change your hand technique. Same issue with all piezo bridges. You can also reduce your gain on your amp. You can also try adjusting your equalizer on your amp to balance your output.
I've done all that, no help, so no round wound for me. I buy directly from Road Toad Music, lots of choices there, including multi-colors.
I find string noise is just an inherent part of wound strings on a piezo instrument. Experiment with fret hand pressure and you can reduce it quite a bit. On the Gold Tone it helps to keep the treble control as low as you can get away with (I find it way too sensitive to HF sounds/noises above half). Would be nice if the GT had a better preamp with 4-band eq (for separate treble and presence control)
I never could control the noise, so I use flatwounds, why have to work when a simple replacement is so easy. I did that on my guitars as well years ago.
Same name, different dude I believe. This Wayne Rogers and his wife, Robyn, run GoldTone together.
Super-nice if you like very short-scale acoustic basses with plastic strings. It did not turn out to be my cup of tea but I was very impressed with the build quality and the sound was lovely.
I like mine but I'm probably going to have to sell it, health issues have forced me to stop playing for the unforeseen future and it doesn't make much sense for it to just sit around gathering dust.
Bought some black Pahoehoes for the fretted and they sound and feel great with no intonation issues, so YAY!
Another question maybe someone here can confirm. The plastic or wood inserts which form the fretline markers on the fretless are coming out the bottom (G-string side) of the neck. One has snapped and I put it back but it's being held in only by pressure. I'm not keen on starting to shloop carpenter's clue all over my bass neck. Any suggestions?
Another question maybe someone here can confirm. The plastic or wood inserts which form the fretline markers on the fretless are coming out the bottom (G-string side) of the neck. One has snapped and I put it back but it's being held in only by pressure. I'm not keen on starting to shloop carpenter's clue all over my bass neck. Any suggestions?
A little dab of glue should hold them in place. Wipe down the fretboard so you don't have extra bumps on the surface from dried glue. I've seen people use everything from wood glue to super glue. When I defretted my bass I just sized the fretline material a little bit large and smashed them in with a rubber mallet then sanded the fretboard with a radiused block.
That being said you may want to take what I say with a grain of salt. Lol!
Finally tried the Superior Bassworks strings out on my MicroBass. The verdict: No, no, and no...way too stiff and dull-sounding. Sadly, I didn't find them to be anything like the product description suggested. The only thing I liked about them was the color -- the semi-translucent natural gut color did look good on the MicroBass (I wish LaBella would make a polymer string in that same color).
Back to swapping between the T'guts & Pahoehoes.
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