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

[SAlcott]

I put a set of Spiro Weichs on today, replacing a set of EP Weichs, starting with the E, which is the reverse of what I usually do. Each successive string sounded better than the EPs, and for some reason, there's no mwah, just nice sustain with a nice solid attack. No twanginess on the G, either. I'm also really grateful to whoever bought the Gamut/Anima set -I nearly succumbed to the siren song of gut again.

 

[Eric Swanson]

Nice. Wonder what the street price was on that set.

These were bought new, from my dealer. I seem to remember them costing about $90, then. They didn't come off my bass until the string fever set in.

I have them hoarded in the fallout shelter, along with the crank-up flashlight, first aid manual, drinking water, and canned goods.

When IT all comes down, they should still cut through the airborne dust and sunless days, quite nicely...

 

[Sam Dingle]

I'm gonna bump this thread up. The "guts are so much fun" thread is getting too much love lately. Loving my spiros sound. They've got 5 months on them and they seem to just get out of my way when playing. I only ever notice them when I either over play them, or when I get lazy with the bow.

 

[krfoss]

I mean, they're nice. I've got Spiro solos and they sound, nice. Wondering if I should kick off the g and replace it with gut g, but that's for the SPIROS WITH GUTS ON TOP ARE SO MUCH FUN thread.

 

[the_Ryan]

Anybody else find mittels to be too weak? Even wth my healthy string height (10mm across EADG). The g string is borderline unacceptable to my ear, D string also too weak. A not bad, but could be better. E, near perfection, but makes me wonder what a stark feels like....

You weich users are crazy... i dont think i could ever play a string that small......

This is really late, but my bass actually chokes under high tension, so the Weichs are actually louder than most strings I've tried.

 

[the_Ryan]

Also, really loving the sound of my Solo F#/D tuned down with Weich ADG. I get a huge sound when I play unamplified and with the bow I have enough zing for solo music and enough low end and a quick response for orchestral music. With the extension I found the Weich E to be to be too high tension compared to the rest of the set, but the solo F# tuned down matches the other strings perfectly.

 

[Sam Dingle]

Also, really loving the sound of my Solo F#/D tuned down with Weich ADG. I get a huge sound when I play unamplified and with the bow I have enough zing for solo music and enough low end and a quick response for orchestral music. With the extension I found the Weich E to be to be too high tension compared to the rest of the set, but the solo F# tuned down matches the other strings perfectly.

I've heard that. Lots of people try a heavy E when theirs doesn't sound great (mittles with a stark E, weich with a mittle E) but a few people have reported a lower tension E string is better. Go figure.

 

[bassfiddlesteve]

I'm gonna bump this thread up. The "guts are so much fun" thread is getting too much love lately.

Don't forget the "Rotosounds aren't much fun" thread.

- Steve

 

[Sam Dingle]

Don't remind me....

 

[cheesybass]

This is cool. This thread reappeared yesterday, the day that I installed Spirocore Weichs on my bass. I replaced a set of Dominants that the previous owner had on it. Man, for a newbie, those things were tough! My bass is like a different, and very playable, instrument now. I like ‘em.

 

[Reiska]

They`re great if you`re after the string that made all the masters, including Ray Brown, sound like they were playing mammoth fretless electric bass banjo after the great switch. Hey they had all this, no, you and I all have this magical touch that actually makes those shiny bastards sound like a historical recording, the old scool bass tone. It`s just matter of technique you stupid, never mind ever actually explaining how it happens, or bringing actual sonical proof or 1 to 1 comparison. Gotta love the longevity and stable tuning and the rest of goodness that makes life easy at home and on the road, and the afterlife too. Those strings will survive even when the rest of instruments and players vanish, ain`t that something.

 

[Sam Dingle]

They`re great if you`re after the string that made all the masters, including Ray Brown, sound like they were playing mammoth fretless electric bass banjo after the great switch. Hey they had all this, no, you and I all have this magical touch that actually makes those shiny bastards sound like a historical recording, the old scool bass tone. It`s just matter of technique you stupid, never mind ever actually explaining how it happens, or bringing actual sonical proof or 1 to 1 comparison. Gotta love the longevity and stable tuning and the rest of goodness that makes life easy at home and on the road, and the afterlife too. Those strings will survive even when the rest of instruments and players vanish, ain`t that something.

Ya lost me somewhere there....

 

[Reiska]

Ya lost me somewhere there....

I tried my best to add a little love and humor in there

 

[Povl Carstensen]

As a young bassplayer in the 80's, I was going for an old school tone. But the idea of actually trying gut strings felt almost out of the question. That was old fashioned, things had developed, etc. So I "struggled" with spiros and other steel strings. Now, via Rotosounds 4000's sometime in the 00's, I am with plain gut. I am not saying that that Spiro can't sound great, and gut is for everyone, but I do wish I had given guts a try back then. I would have been way "ahead" of my time. Ofcourse now we have the wide sortiment of synthetic strings to make things even easier/more complicated.

 

[the_Ryan]

They`re great if you`re after the string that made all the masters, including Ray Brown, sound like they were playing mammoth fretless electric bass banjo after the great switch. Hey they had all this, no, you and I all have this magical touch that actually makes those shiny bastards sound like a historical recording, the old scool bass tone. It`s just matter of technique you stupid, never mind ever actually explaining how it happens, or bringing actual sonical proof or 1 to 1 comparison. Gotta love the longevity and stable tuning and the rest of goodness that makes life easy at home and on the road, and the afterlife too. Those strings will survive even when the rest of instruments and players vanish, ain`t that something.

To be fair, most of that ebg sound came from people using bad pickups and engineers taking that sound direct

 

[Reiska]

To be fair, most of that ebg sound came from people using bad pickups and engineers taking that sound direct

That is true, and I wasn`t completely serious on my late night post I do still have some Spiro lower strings in my drawer, and they are absolutely great. For me, those higher strings are problematic and that`s where I use guts. And, absolutely, there`s gazillion great sounding Spiro players, very much including the OP. I just felt like trolling a little

 

[lurk]

Whenever I hear something like this, tho, I have to fight the urge to ditch those Spiros that work so well for most everything and plunge into guts, which on my bass need to be expensive guts and only work for certain things. But boy, is this a fabulous sound.

 

[Michael Karn]

Whenever I hear something like this, tho, I have to fight the urge to ditch those Spiros that work so well for most everything and plunge into guts, which on my bass need to be expensive guts and only work for certain things. But boy, is this a fabulous sound.

I'm pretty sure those aren't gut. Have you seen the version of Impressions from (I think) the day before? Jimmy plays a long unaccompanied solo and there are several close up shots of the strings, both on the neck and at the bridge and they definitely don't look like gut to me

 

[Michael Karn]

What do you think?

 

[KUNGfuSHERIFF]

‘65 is late enough for them to be Lycons.