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Double Bass New! Pirastro Perpetual Double Bass strings

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Sam Dingle said:
whats your setup like? what can you compare them to other than spiros (evahs, innovation etc)
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Yes I had various combinations of gut strings over the last 15 years or so. Occasionally tried metal E / A Spiros, Weich, Evah etc but usually old school metal wound gut Gamut, Chorda etc
Most recently Eudoxa.
For me in this bass, nothing is as good as all gut but the Perpetual have proved best non gut I’ve tried and I still have them on there after a couple of weeks. I did some recordings last week just to show how the E and A sound.
Currently I have Genssler wraps on G and D ( the lower ones broke some time ago :( )
Hope that helps!
 
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bassfiddlesteve said:
I've still got a full set of Perpetuals on both of my basses. Every so often I think about the Spirocores in my string drawer, but the Perpetuals feel so much nice under the left hand.

- Steve
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I also keep my Spiros in the drawer but since I use the same Oliv G with the Perps that I used with the Spiros it gives me a reference point with my previous set-up and I miss nothing, in fact, I'm loving the slightly lower tension of the Perps that I disliked when I first put them on my bass.
 
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Sam Dingle said:
I'm feeling so lonely in the perp camp right now....
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I am also still with you Sam.

I had the full set of Perpetuals on for two weeks. With a lot of (beginner open-string) arco practice they broke in nicely and sound very old school cool on my 2013 hybrid Eastman bass—especially the DG when compared to my previous zingy 3885 Spiro weichs.

They sounded especially good with a slight nut shim and a few turns of the adjusters to raise the action so I could dig in a bit more for acoustic bluegrass jams and performance. I will be putting the full set on a new to me German fully carved German shop bass that is currently in for reconstructive surgery.

I am currently playing the Perpetual EA below Superio Bass Works Deluxe medium D (.105) and light G .(80). I wanted to see how the feel across the strings would work and/or how the tone would balance if I were to try guts over Perps in the future.

For pizz this combo feels and sounds great together in a bluegrass context. When bowed (by this beginning German bow player) the SBW D sounds a lot quieter and tonally anemic for both open or stopped notes. The G sounds louder and richer than the D under the bow but bowing the Perpetual E and A draws MUCH more resonance and volume out of my bass than either SBW string. I guess that is why there is a price difference between Pirastro and SBW strings!

I am encouraged enough by the pizz sound and bounce of the SBW DG strings (what they were designed for) as well as the way the way they blend with the (higher action) Perps’ EA pizzicato to look for some used plain gut high strings and continue experimenting.
 
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Bar Star said:
I am also still with you Sam.

I had the full set of Perpetuals on for two weeks. With a lot of (beginner open-string) Arco practice they broke in nicely and sound very old school cool on my 2013 hybrid Eastman bass—especially the DG when compared to my previous zingy 3885 Spiro weichs.

They sounded especially good with a slight nut shim and a few turns of the adjusters to raise the action so I could dig in a bit more for acoustic bluegrass jams and performance. I will be putting the full set on a new to me German fully carved german shop bass that is currently in for reconstructive surgery.

I am currently playing the Perpetual EA below Superio Bass Works Deluxe medium D (.105) and light G .(80). I wanted to see how the feel across the strings would work and/or how the tone would balance if I were to try guts over Perps in the future.

For pizz this combo feels and sounds great together in a bluegrass context. When bowed (by this beginning German bow player) the SBW D sounds a lot quieter and tonally anemic for both open or stopped notes. The G sounds louder and richer than the D under the bow but bowing the Perpetual E and A draws MUCH more resonance and volume out of my bass than either SBW string. I guess that is why there is a price difference between Pirastro and SBW strings!

I am encouraged enough by the pizz sound and bounce of the SBW DG strings (what they were designed for) as well as the way the way they blend with the (higher action) Perps’ EA pizzicato to look for some used plain gut high strings and continue experimenting.
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Good to hear. I think the perp EA may be a good match for plain gut, if you also like spiro light under gut. The perps are a little more flexible imo
 
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