Double Bass Low B Experiences

[coyoteboy]

Greetings folks.

I'm using an NS-EU6. I'm fielding any and all B string success and failure experiences. I started a new thread because you can't search for "B" string. I'm interested in both pizz and arco styles, as I do both with this bass with good success except for the B which is fine for arco but is lifeless for pizz. Currently it is a Corelli 370TX, as is the rest of the set.

Fire away or tell me to go to heck.

Thanks in advance.

 

[MacDaddyBass]

I'm using the Spirocore weich on my CR5. It works really quite well, especially with the magnetics. It's a little floppy, you have to use full length strings, but it's still good.

 

[coyoteboy]

How well do the weichs bow?

 

[Francois Blais]

The Spirocore low B is available in medium and stark gauges only.
The low C is available in weich and medium.

 

[Marcus Johnson]

The Spiro B was a raging success on my Azola. Just huge, earth-shaking. The biggest bass sound of any kind that I've ever experienced, with good clarity. Great with the bow.

 

[bongomania]

Weird, Spiro Weichs were the "stock upgrade set" on my BSX, and (a) I did not know the B was a different i.e. non-Weich line, and (b) it is one of the least thunderous low B's I've heard. It's plenty tight, in fact the tension is quite crisp, and the tone overall is very tight and clean. But the low end on the B is far less boomy, full, round, thunderous, etc. than any of the 34" scale slab BG's I've played. It may be user error as I'm still new to the EUB, but at least at this point I've been wondering if I should switch to a different low B. The rest of the strings are much more "proportionate" in their fullness/roundness etc.

 

[Francois Blais]

In the Superflexible line, you can get both the low B and low C.
I think they'd be quite darker than the Spiro.

With Pirastro, I'm thinking of the Jazzer low B and the Permanent low B.
The latter would be darker than the former.

 

[MacDaddyBass]

I bought my Weich B from lemur, and they do have them (I just looked it up to make sure) although they do call it a 5th B/C, so there you have it.
I haven't bowed it much, but I have a hard time bowing the NS anyways because it takes a lot of control to only bow one string they're so close together. Guess I'm just used to the acoustic upright.

 

[Marcus Johnson]

It's entirely possible that my experience was due to the stellar performance of the Azola's pickups.

 

[coyoteboy]

thanks for the input folks.

considering I have the 'heavy' gauge Corellis, perhaps the Spiro Med would be closer than the weich B/C.

keep em coming.

 

[damonsmith]

A D'addario came on my Ergo, I normally don't care for them but it has lasted over a year and has plenty of life, it has a nice growl and is fantasic for pizz and arco. I'd prefer a spiro, but it is not worth $50 to change it, since it is working so well.

 

[matthewbrown]

I used D'Addarios on my Big Kydd, and the B string spoke very well. I didn't play it arco, though.