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Double Bass New Evah Pirazzi slap strings from Pirastro!

#241
Just wanted to add my two cents here.
Last weekend I replaced my unravelling Dlugoglecki E&A with the Slaps. A couple of reasons, I'm a bit broke and don't quite have the scratch to replace a set, but mainly, I'm heading to Southern Alberta next month for two weeks of recording. Probably the driest place in Norht America, (down to -30 celsius at times and low low humidity) in other words, wound gt string killer weather.

So, I'm really happy, just did a tour down to Oregon and back, two sets a night, Monday to Monday. Bass (1952 American Standard) in the back of a van with tempuratures down to -5/6 celsius. The strings held their tuning and performed great.

I think these strings blend scarily well with raw gut strings up top. I do think the Dlugo's have a bit of a higher tension than the Pirastros, so that may contribute to the slight change in feel. The first two gigs I played, my arm was tiring out, due to the lower tension.

Funnily enough the biggest tonal difference I noticed between these and wound gut strings, were when I was slapping acoustically. Amped up, and with a band in the mix, I couldn't tell you any difference.

I may try an old Pirastro Henriquez Chorda D/G to see if the lower tension balances a bit better. And when I'm in the studio I will keep an old E/A gut string handy incase these fail miserably in the studio setting.

All in all, I think these a great winter and a great touring option for the gut purist in your life. I'm happy.
 
#246
I just uploaded a quick recording session to Soundcloud you might be interested in hearing. The bass is strung with Dlug G, Gamut D, and Evah Slap A&E, all about a year old with pretty consistent and varying playing. I play arco and pizz on Trump Card, pizz on the other two.
They were recorded using two ribbon mics I built from kit (very similar to the Troll) in Blumlein config. The group is bass, drums, tenor sax, and we recorded three of my original tunes in the drummer's practice cave. This was my first time trying this recording setup and and we only had time for a take or two of each song so there be hair in dem bass parts.
I'm proud of the tunes, I like the way it sounds overall, and the performances are vibey.

 
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#247
If anyone is interested in how the Evah Slaps work amplified, here is a tune where my bass is recorded only via direct out from an Acoustic Image amp. It would be better of course if there was a mic , or a mix of the two sounds, because the true acoustic sound is excellent. But, it is a very natural amplified tone -- granted Acoustic Image is good for that too.
The bass is Kolstein Panormo model, and bass and drums start at 2:45 into the video, before that is all keyboards.
 
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#248
Last week I put a brand new E+A on my Czech ply together with an old Gamut D and Kuerschner G, and I now have a few hours of playing on them. I kinda like the sound of them, but compared to the plain guts they sound dull and they are lacking severely in volume. Now I'm wondering; will the volume increase as they break in more?
 
#253
VegasGutPlucker said:
I just uploaded a quick recording session to Soundcloud you might be interested in hearing. The bass is strung with Dlug G, Gamut D, and Evah Slap A&E, all about a year old with pretty consistent and varying playing. I play arco and pizz on Trump Card, pizz on the other two.
They were recorded using two ribbon mics I built from kit (very similar to the Troll) in Blumlein config. The group is bass, drums, tenor sax, and we recorded three of my original tunes in the drummer's practice cave. This was my first time trying this recording setup and and we only had time for a take or two of each song so there be hair in dem bass parts.
I'm proud of the tunes, I like the way it sounds overall, and the performances are vibey.

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I think you sound really good and solid!
 
#258
Bigbassguy said:
Thanks Francois. Do you think the spriocore weich and evah weich are similar/ difference?
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Evah solo tuned town would be closer to the slaps set. Evah weich has more tension than the slaps or solos tuned down.

Comparing Evah weich to spiro weich, the evahs are darker, easier to get a warm arco sound imo and have more thump. Spiro weich can achieve some of the thump but can also be much brighter and have more growl (depends on the bass). Evahs I believe are thicker too
 

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