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#5,803
remcult said:
Hey,

So I'm finally changing the strings on my custom 34" SKB 5er after about a year. Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Dave
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The strings we use in the shop are D'Addario XL nickel wounds, but they don't have the exact gauges in a set (.045 .065 .085 .100 .125). I use DR Extra Life myself (mainly because I'm cheap and they last forever ;) ), and they seem to hold up very well also. I know a lot of guys are using DR Sunbeams as well, because they have a set that matches our OEM set very well.
 
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#5,807
Gard said:
Aside: the slacking the strings thing, never got it. "They" say you are supposed to do that. Who are "they" (and Dan Erlewine doing his imitation of Dan Ackroyd imitating Julia Child is not a good enough "they" ;) )? Here's a hint - I worked for 5 years at Bass Central, and in that time I received (unpacked & QC'd) literally thousands of brand-new instruments from dozens of custom high-end boutique bass builders. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. WAS. TUNED. TO. STANDARD. PITCH. when it arrived. Every one. If it's good enough for the guys that build 'em, let's go with that version of "they", hmmkay? ;) There is a reason why, for the record, and the tl/dr version is this - a proper neck setup is a balance between the string tension and the trussrod tension, and slacking the strings, without taking all of the tension off the trussrod will potentially force a back bow into your neck, not to mention completely foul up the nice setup on the bass that the build did just before shipping the bass - whether you loosen the trussrod or not. :)
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Hey Gard

Inquiring minds want to know who these "THEY" are, so I quoted the above and started a thread. Should be interesting to see what comes back....

Thanks for the inspiration...
 
#5,813
On the string note,


I'm going to be trying Labella, Ken Smith, Sadowsky, and DR (don't know which ones yet) Strings at some point here in the near future on my Roscoe...

I Tried Dunlop SuperBright (they are good, but shouldn't be recommended as the end-all I feel..) and I've tried Fodera Strings on my Roscoe

(which by the way, in Recordings back to back, the Fodera Strings had a fuller bass sound than the Dunlop strings by-the-way.. )

I currently have the Fodera strings on right now if interested to hear them more..

but now gotta compare to others..
 
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#5,814
I tried several kinds of strings on my Roscoe basses and went back to the OEM strings which are D'Adarrio XL's. I use the super long 5 string set on my 5 and add a separate C string to the set for my 6's. I like them so much that I am also using them on my other basses except for my Fender Precision V which sounds best to me with the OEM Fender strings.
 
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For unite a while I was all over the map with strings. But I always seemed to gravitate back to D'Adarrio XLs.

About 4 months ago I picked up a set of EB Cobat Flats. Round wound sound with the feel of flats. Think I'm going to stick with'em for a while.

But, to each his own.
 

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