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Is anyone curing strings the way drummers cure cymbals?

klopfenpop

klopfenpop

Feb 20, 2020
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My drummer friends who want dry cymbals talk about burying them in the ground for years, storing them in open sea air, etc. to build up a patina.

All this essentially to accelerate the effects of aging.

I love a real dry Jamerson type bass sound, but Thomastiks are expensive af, and even the original Lebella Deep Talkin' flats are pretty bright out of the pack. I just had an unfixable break in my ten year old set of Thomastiks and I'm a kind of heartbroken. :(

Are any bassists out there pre-aging flats to have that nice aged sound faster? What are your techniques? What have you found out?

Drummers, any advice from cymbal aging adventures?
 
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klopfenpop said:
My drummer friends who want dry cymbals talk about burying them in the ground for years, storing them in open sea air, etc. to build up a patina.

All this essentially to accelerate the effects of aging.

I love a real dry Jamerson type bass sound, but Thomastiks are expensive af, and even the original Lebella Deep Talkin' flats are pretty bright out of the pack. I just had an unfixable break in my ten year old set of Thomastiks and I'm a kind of heartbroken. :(

Are any bassists out there pre-aging flats to have that nice aged sound faster? What are your techniques? What have you found out?

Drummers, any advice from cymbal aging adventures?
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I have a brand new set of guitar and bass strings buried inside my fireplace surround. Someday, I'll (probably not) pull them out to test your theory.
 

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