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Double Bass NS EUB megathread

#102
bassisten said:
Hi Francois!


Ok, listen here... as I wrote before!

BRUCE LINDFIELDS SIGNATURE INCLUDES A QUOTE FROM SOME GUY CALLED OLIVIER!!! AND I MISTAKED BRUCE'S NAME TO BE OLIVIER!

Are you happy now??? :)
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When someone has turned off showing signatures in his options, like I did, it's not obvious!
Now that I turned them on, I understand!
Was it necessary to shout?
There is also a known TB member named Olivier. (also from France, like the composer in Bruce's signature)
I assumed you were talking about him, since I had no idea of your signature's content.

Regards,
François
 
#104
Hey, I don't actually own one, YET. But I will most likely be putting in my order next week, once I hear back from ye ol' tax man (aka, my CPA). Unfortunately I was told today that NS is shutting down in 2 weeks, for 2 weeks. Year end stuff was what I gathered from the info I got. So I'm looking at 1 1/2 - 2 months before I get it. Just in case anyone's curious, I'm getting one of the new EU6's.
 
#105
Hello

I'm the proud owner of a Ns Cr5m and happy to play it ! I usually play jazz and latin jazz/salsa and this bass is perfect for this kind of music, anyway a real upright bass couldn't fit in my little french car :p !

and it's funny to see who reacts the crowd when they see the instrument !!!

I m' pleased to be part of this new club on Talkbass ! :hyper:
 
#106
I just love my CR4M!
I just don't know why NS put that kind of strings on their basses? It sounds like crap and I would pay U$60 more for an real DB strings instead.
I took off the original strings and replaced with Thomastick and I get nothing but compliments!
 
#109
CR5M here.

I tend to explain the sound as a DB on steroids - maybe most DB bass players would be able to tell which sound was which from an EUB and a DB even if they couldn't see the instrument but by and large the general public can't. If you are in a theatre pit the audience won't know the difference and even if you told them they wouldn't care.

You can get a vague approximation of a DB sound but why would you want to limit yourself when you can have so much more ?

I think the most fun can be had at 'real' gigs when I put it on the shoulder harness and wander round :)

I've got mine strung with a mongrel set of strings at the moment - E/G are D'addario Helicores with the B being a stock NS string as I couldn't fit the Helicore through the hole in the tuning peg. they give a good response to arco and have plenty of sustain in piz.

The one thing it can't do though is rockabilly - there is no resonance in the neck for a good slap !
 
#110
Hi Folks,
Well after reading this thread i bought a set of Pirastro Flexocores for my CR5M...
YUK! they sound dead as a dodo!!!
The bass lost all its mwarrr and sustain and was replaced with a dull boom!
not happy... I next tried a Thomastic spirocore E and A i had floating around...
they sounded great!
A more DB sound than the stock but not as dead as the Pirastros.
however they were 3/4 scale and the windings went over the nut onto the fingerboard!... so i take it i will need a 4/4 set for the NS design???

J
 
#111
junglejim said:
The bass lost all its mwarrr and sustain and was replaced with a dull boom!
not happy...
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But that was the very point of buying these - to get rid of the un-natural sustain and mwah!! :p

To make it sound less like a fretless BG a la Jaco - and more like a real DB!! If you don't like how a DB sounds, then I suggest you would be far better off with a decent fretless BG - much easier to play and transport etc. etc. !!

The only other suggestion I would make, is that you need to raise the action and really pull across the strings, as you would a DB, rather than just plucking as you would a BG - you have to put some effort into it (give it some welly!! ;) ) - to get the sound - just buying different strings is not always the solution...:hmm:
 
#115
yes.. seemingly a counter-intuitive choice for the NS, but after 1st ordering a std TI 3/4 set and finding them too short as well as too stiff I called Kevin Reynolds at Nordenholtz and came up with the S42's as having the proper length/tension characteristics I was after. And, I did go with the weich. Only a few gigs on them, but I think they're the ones.
 
#116
Bruce Lindfield said:
But that was the very point of buying these - to get rid of the un-natural sustain and mwah!! :p

To make it sound less like a fretless BG a la Jaco - and more like a real DB!! If you don't like how a DB sounds, then I suggest you would be far better off with a decent fretless BG - much easier to play and transport etc. etc. !!

The only other suggestion I would make, is that you need to raise the action and really pull across the strings, as you would a DB, rather than just plucking as you would a BG - you have to put some effort into it (give it some welly!! ;) ) - to get the sound - just buying different strings is not always the solution...:hmm:
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wow...
Give me some credit i have been playing bass semi-professionals for 20 years!!!
I have the bridge as high as it will pos go (and thats not high enough!!!)
i dont see how the pirastros sound like a real DB on th NS?... i couldnt make the pirastros speak at all (except on the G).i like to have the whole spectrum of sounds available depending on how you play it, so if i do dig hard i get a nice mwarr, while keeping a good solid attack with sustain when needed.

I guess this is all personal taste stuff...
 
#117
mburd said:
yes.. seemingly a counter-intuitive choice for the NS, but after 1st ordering a std TI 3/4 set and finding them too short as well as too stiff I called Kevin Reynolds at Nordenholtz and came up with the S42's as having the proper length/tension characteristics I was after. And, I did go with the weich. Only a few gigs on them, but I think they're the ones.
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great cheers... these sound like the next ones to try!

(PS may be a set of Pirastros on ebay soon at a good price! :smug: )

so just for thick old me...these the ones?....

Thomastik - spirocore weich(soft) in 4/4 (T - S42)

J
 
#118
junglejim said:
wow...
Give me some credit i have been playing bass semi-professionals for 20 years!!!
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Well - you haven't filled out your profile - so there's no way anybody could know that...?

It's difficult to help people, when they don't do this...:hmm:

i dont see how the pirastros sound like a real DB on th NS?... i couldnt make the pirastros speak at all (except on the G).
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Well - to me they sound great - much higher quality sound as well as darker ..

I go to Jazz gigs every week and see/hear the best Jazz DB pros in Britain at close quarters - I'm aiming for the sound they get!! :)

As you haven't completed your profile - I don't know what you like or are playing...:hmm:

I also don't know what amplification you are using...? :hmm:
So - I've been at Jams etc. where you just have to use whatever amp is there on stage and I know that my NS CR5 sounds very dull and lifeless through amps/cabs aimed at bass guitar - like Trace Elliot, Peavey etc. Whereas, played through my EA VL208 cab it really comes to life! :)

So it may not just be the strings?

i like to have the whole spectrum of sounds available depending on how you play it, so if i do dig hard i get a nice mwarr, while keeping a good solid attack with sustain when needed.
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Which set up/strings are you talking about there...?
 

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