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Kala UBass Megathread, Part 2

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#402
Here's a vid from the other week at Sundance. My band performed and also wrote the jingle about/for the festival and the Sundance Channel. Sounded great all week and all the engineers loved it.

The vid is airing on the Sundance Channel now, so if you have the channel you might catch it...

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rosstanium said:
Here's a vid from the other week at Sundance. My band performed and also wrote the jingle about/for the festival and the Sundance Channel. Sounded great all week and all the engineers loved it.

The vid is airing on the Sundance Channel now, so if you have the channel you might catch it...

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Absolutely excellent.

Now - you gotta smack your bandmates upside the head and tell them that you have to get equal screen time next time. :)
 
#404
I think I need a short break from it.

Anyone who has read some or all of this forum knows the level of enthusiasm I have for this amazing, unique bass.

But, I guess I need to take a pause. My day ends badly with:
- Citings of two UBass brothers with broken tuners
- My own UBass being down, with an incomplete string change.

I thought it would be interesting to now swap back to a fresh set of stock strings, so that I'd be able to compare after spending all that time with the excellent Thunderguts.

What I now have, after literally - well, I won't say how much time, because it's embarrassing - a bass with only a partial string change. I just could Not get a new D back on that bass by myself. Last time I worked with the stock strings, I had another pair of hands help me. Today, I just plain failed. And I'm left with - seriously - very cut up, bloody hands from the ordeal. If you rub against those tuning posts at the wrong angle, you can cut yourself up, and I'm embarrassed by what my hands now look like. No joke.

Time for a short intervention. As Arnold said - I'll Be Back.
;)
 
#405
Crap, the more I hear about all this, the luckier I feel. I just swapped mine (original for T-guts) last week, my first re-string of ANY instrument, and it went completely uneventful!
I feel your pain guys. It's not easy being away from this instrument.
 
#411
Is okay. The sound of the U-Bass is really not as conducive to the desired sound of that band. The U-bass isn't lending itself to southern rock. BUT, it sounds fantastic with Jewish liturgical, klezmer, bluegrass and some CCM.
 
#412
For the Thundergut users:

Do the E and A look nearly the same size? I can tell the difference between the Pahoehoe E and A, but I'm starting to wonder if my TG E and A were mispacked and I put them on in the wrong order, which may have caused my tuner issue (although, I'd assume the string would break first). My TG E just seems a out of tune compared to the D and G when tuned to pitch.
 
#413
They are easy to tell apart, at least on mine. I also had the same initial impression regarding tuning, but it's normal after a couple of days. Have you heard back from the people at Kala?
 
#414
Nothing yet, but I think they're based in California, and I'm in Michigan.

I checked my TG's with a caliper, and they're definitely the correct gauges, I was just over thinking the situation.

I really like the TG's a lot more than the stock strings, even if I only have three of them on right now.
 
#416
I asked Mike Upton as Kala if he could offer up any more information on:
- the neck truss rods
- the recent incidents of tuner posts snapping.

Here is his response:

I wouldn’t be too concerned about the necks. With the UBass there is not a lot of string tension either with the poly-urethane strings or the Thunderguts. The rod is there just as more of a pre-cautionary measure and also because some guys have started using the Pyramid metal strings for the bass which do have more tension.

We had some problems about a year ago with the tuner post snapping on the A string mainly. We have since had the post beefed up. We found that when the A strings gets too many winds on it and especially when the winds start getting low on the post and touching the headstock it puts incredible strain on the tuner and then the post snaps. They key is not to have too many winds on the A string post. We are looking further into this since we haven’t had any issues until just now.
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