I'm heading to the gym now but I think I can get this done early afternoon(I'm East coast so it's almost 10 now).
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I'm heading to the gym now but I think I can get this done early afternoon(I'm East coast so it's almost 10 now).
I'm willing to bet that after a few days of regular practice and the strings break in, your audio test will be very different
ohhhh yea I never had a fret wrap but have used a hair tie in the past and if you wrap it just right you still get pretty good open string...my beef is loss of playing harmonics. I still may get one. Damn kids took my hair ties off and haven't found them haha. Very useful in some scenarios though. Specially with a 5 muting is more of a Task.
I've placed my wrap so the nut is about midway through the foam piece. Just enough to take some harmonics out. I still mute but it helps define the notes better and sometimes I strum chords and it helps keep the B and E quiet. And then i can quickly slip it down across the 1st fret to do any tapping stuff. I find it handy, obviously you could use hair ties like Wooten and yourself too.
Here you go buddy. Seems like the D and B strings are the noisiest in this scenario. My strings are not brand new but pretty new. I did one in passive and one in active set flat. I just when from bass to interface with nothing done at all to the sound.
edit: I had the pick ups centered to capture both as well
edit: I had the pick ups centered to capture both as well
Thanks for taking the time! Yours sound similar to my EHB1000. What model is it? Do you ever feel like you struggle with muting it when playing certain difficult passages?
I have the SR2405 with Aguilar pickups. To me it only is the D and B strings that are most noisy. I've had similar things with all of my basses(fender, squire, schecter, Warwick). I actively mute with my hands. If a passage runs across the strings I will use a floating thumb. I mean if you are trying to blast out some taps you gotta use both hands or just use a fret wrap. Keep in mind that's not my final tone with my set up either so that may change things. I have a HPF, LPF on the markbass(only turn it up a hair to clean up), compressor, harmonic booster, and B3K for dirt.
I could be wrong but I think part of a rich sound does this, and also I would never pluck a string and leave it the above open unless it was something like I was so focused on the lower strings.
Hope this helps some. Ideally a local store would have some stuff to try but I know that's not always the case.
Thanks for elaborating. I use floating thumb as well for fingerstyle, and and it takes care of thee muting. However, I play almost as much slap and that's when it gets hard to mute if there too much ringing, especially playing things like fast thumbing across different strings in ascending scales.
I avoid things like FretWrap and foam mutes because I often play open strings in songs.
My SR650 is just perfect because it has very little sympathetic resonance, sounds great, and plays fast the smooth. But it's about a pound too heavy and I wish it had a mid-frequency switch. I thought about finding a lighter weight SR650E, but I have no idea if the sympathetic resonance will differ between copies of the same model.
Then I thought maybe the Premium models will be better because of the Monorail bridge design with solid body which should minimize the sympathetic vibration, but your SR2400 just proved otherwise. So now I'm not sure what to think and what my plan will be.
Hmm does the 650 has the ability to make as bright and clear a sound and the EHB?
what I'm getting at could it be brighter crunchy basses with newer strings make more resonance or it's it solely the body?
The SR650 has the same D'Addario EXL strings on it as the EHB1000, except it was installed new in late April this year, while the EHB1000's is new from the factory.
I'll try another experiment--I'll put old strings on the EHB1000 and new strings on the SR650 and see what happens. If it turns out it's really the strings and not the body, then I'll have one less thing to consider, and the EHB1000's only remaining issue for me is the neck being a bit wider and the nut has wider string spacing too. I prefer the narrower neck/spacing of the SR4 neck--it just plays faster/smoother for me and I make less mistakes. If I do keep the EHB1000, I could redo the nut and that should take care of it.
I did more tests today and recording the sympathetic resonance for all of my basses (eight total), and I also swapped out the strings for the EHB1000 and SR650. Turned out that it is not the strings, as the behavior carries over to other sets of strings. I put an old set of flats on the EHB1000 and a new set of Ernie Ball Cobalt flats (famous for sounding as bright as a new set of roundwound) on the SR650, and despite the inherent tonal differences of these strings, the relative sympathetic resonance level remained more or less the same.
ah that sucks. Well at least you know for sure before making the move you're gonna make. Good luck on the bass Finding journey
I utilize open strings often in the song I play, so any kind of muting--even a porous foam--will stop the open string from ringing out fully.
I've come to accept that some basses just have more sympathetic resonance than others, and often it's not the same strings from bass to bass (while on my EHB1000, it's on all the strings).
Currently there are a couple of other issues that make this particular copy of the EHB1000 a deal-breaker, so I'm returning it. I'm sad about it, but this is supposed to be my main bass, so I need to have it ticking all the boxes for my needs.
