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Double Bass SPIROCORES ARE SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!

#41
I have been playing Spiro Weichs for at least five years (former d'addario user). I'm on my second set now, and like them for their sound pizz and bowed and for their tuning stability. The open g string pizzed sounds a little twangy at times, I think maybe I shouldn't dig too hard on the open G. Also, Mittels are to much tension for my bass even at low action, the weichs at a medium height are just perfect. Someday I'll have a second bass with guts for a different flavor, but for now Spiro Weichs are working great.
 
#42
Any of you Spiroheads notice we're getting a lot of chatter over there in the sheephouse? Course, it's kind of fuzzy and indistinct, a little buzzy and slightly out of tune? They're a warm bunch, just cranked up a bit and a little behind the time.

Played a gig the other night with the same players that witnessed my long lost gut weekend. After a few tunes the guitarist looked at me and said "yeah, I see what you meant, these (Spiros) have that snap and the quick front end"...
 
#43
Jason Sypher said:
Any of you Spiroheads notice we're getting a lot of chatter over there in the sheephouse? Course, it's kind of fuzzy and indistinct, a little buzzy and slightly out of tune? They're a warm bunch, just cranked up a bit and a little behind the time.

Played a gig the other night with the same players that witnessed my long lost gut weekend. After a few tunes the guitarist looked at me and said "yeah, I see what you meant, these (Spiros) have that snap and the quick front end"...
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Yeah, I noticed. They have to justify their "tweakomania" somehow. After all, if you put on the Spiros and admit you're done, then what are you gonna fool with and adjust? Oh yeah, mics, pickups, endpins, tailpieces,... but those tend to cost even more and be even more disruptive to mess with. :D
 
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Jason Sypher said:
Any of you Spiroheads notice we're getting a lot of chatter over there in the sheephouse? Course, it's kind of fuzzy and indistinct, a little buzzy and slightly out of tune? They're a warm bunch, just cranked up a bit and a little behind the time.

Played a gig the other night with the same players that witnessed my long lost gut weekend. After a few tunes the guitarist looked at me and said "yeah, I see what you meant, these (Spiros) have that snap and the quick front end"...
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Ha ha. Excuse me? I found my strings and they are gut. They aren't indistinct or fuzzy at all. I shake the floor with my bass; I don't even need an amp most of the time even with drums. It ain't no twang-fest over here AT ALL. It is the righteous thump of gut.;)

Really, it comes down to what you're playing. Jason--you had no business going to gut in the first place. Your style and the type of music you play clearly benefits from a clear strong mid-rangy string like a Spiro. If you were playing predominantly straight ahead jazz, you might have a different opinion. I keep a bass strung with Spiros for recording and for playing the occasional non-jazz gig but for my regular jazz gigs, gut is golden. It is THE SOUND.

mark (Spiro-free in jazz for 2+ years)
 
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Get back over there in the slaughterhouse Mark. We're cold and steely over here. We stay this this way no matter what the temperature or humidity. We're cheap and punchy. We're practical to our braided core. We might look like we have no bottom but it's just because our bottoms are tight and in shape, not flabby and all over the bike seat...
 
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i think i'm going to try to bring peace in this world by using some gamuts on top, and spiros on the bottom. (seems like people have been getting away with that mix for a long time.... haden, darek oles, countless slap dudes)

(i think) i have spiros that i found inside of an ampeg b-12 i bought many moons ago. red windings on both ends. most notably, they have roman numerals on the ball ends.

do spiros have roman numerals I-IV on the ball ends?
 
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#49
Yeah,

These new fangeld steel string thingys, even an old guy like P.Warm Buttocks uses em! Hey you kids, get off my lawn!

I've got to say, for me, Spiros are the way to roll, with an Olive on top! I really don't want to be shaving, cutting sanding and oiling strings. I want to be able to use that time to practice!

However, one man's junk is another man's treasure. to each his own, live and let live...bla bla bla

:hiding:
 
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Jason Sypher said:
Get back over there in the slaughterhouse Mark. We're cold and steely over here. We stay this this way no matter what the temperature or humidity. We're cheap and punchy. We're practical to our braided core. We might look like we have no bottom but it's just because our bottoms are tight and in shape, not flabby and all over the bike seat...
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Now THAT is stupidly funny.
 
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Jason Sypher said:
We might look like we have no bottom but it's just because our bottoms are tight and in shape, not flabby and all over the bike seat...
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LOL!! :D I recently met Thomastik's Marketing Director Wolfgang Weiss. He's Austrian (of course!), has an accent like Schwarzenegger's and would sound fantastic narrating the new series of commercials based on your brilliant concept! ;)

"Tighten up your flabby bottom end with Spirocores!"

"Tone your bottom end with Weichs!"

"Get some power in your stroke with Starks!"

"Bottom end all roly-poly - not with Spiros!"
 
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Jake deVilliers said:
LOL!! :D I recently met Thomastik's Marketing Director Wolfgang Weiss. He's Austrian (of course!), has an accent like Schwarzenegger's and would sound fantastic narrating the new series of commercials based on your brilliant concept! ;)

"Tighten up your flabby bottom end with Spirocores!"

"Tone your bottom end with Weichs!"

"Get some power in your stroke with Starks!"

"Bottom end all roly-poly - not with Spiros!"
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good idea Jake! or why not have an animated ad with Stark E singing (with Terminator-style Austrian accent): "I'll be back, you girlie boys!" :cool:
 

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