Been playing Basso ‘20 for a month now. Beautiful strings; organic, articulate and it seems my intonation is better with these strings. My ears just likes the sounds I’m putting out better.
95% pizz playing. Chose these strings since my bass likes tension.
Only downside, is that I’m perceiving a small drop in volume on the g and d strings, compared to my former setup (Spiro and Oliv G). But that could be in my head.
95% pizz playing. Chose these strings since my bass likes tension.
Only downside, is that I’m perceiving a small drop in volume on the g and d strings, compared to my former setup (Spiro and Oliv G). But that could be in my head.
I`m a drummer who loves broken, pimped, riveted etc quirky trashy washy cymbal sounds. There is a reason for riveting cymbals. In classic bop and big band context, cymbals fullfill a harmonic function and purpose, this is why you rarely hear heavy, quick decay cymbals in jazz. You want that contimuum of sound between those 4th notes and choose the comping cymbal by which range the soloing instrument is functioning, be that horn, sax, piano, bass or whatever, to support and enhance the soloing tone and range. Rivets help with achieving a big feeling beat. Again, in classic jazz context the drums are played relatively lightly and the standard bass drum size is 18 inches, this dictates the ergonomics of the drumset. In rock / fusion context some have their cymbals pretty high, to get them out of the way of rack toms above a big bass drum. With high cymbals you get minimum bleed of toms to the overhead mics. As a bassist, I`m sometimes the drummers " bassist from hell ", beeing a drummer, but I`m not that ignorant that I`d push any opinion on one`s way of setting the drums. There are some " laws " about it, but it is a highly personal thing. Whatever makes the drummer feel most comfortable is the best way in 98,75% of the cases.
