Anyone tried both? I switched to the Velvets from steel Helicores because they were way easier on my fingers, but could still be bowed, and way cheaper and less maintenance than guts. I rarely find myself using a bow and am currently deep in a rockabilly band and have considered adding the weedwackers but I'm just not sure. I don't know anyone who's played them personally. My instructor friend said go from the anemas to the garbos but he's partial to the velvets. I guess I just want to know if slapping is easier with the weedwackers. I see videos and it seems like theyre super rubbery and just stick to peoples fingers, slapping away with ease. If they're no better than the Anemas, I won't bother, since I like them and they can be bowed, but I wondered if anyone had experience with both and could compare the two.
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Double Bass Velvet Anemas vs Weedwackers? Garbos?
- Thread starter Slapstyle
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Stick with the Animas. There's less wrong with Velvets for rockabilly than there is with whackers for any kind of music at all.
KUNGfuSHERIFF said:
+1
Animas are great... and they will keep you going just fine until you are ready to make the plunge into the world of gut strings.
I went from Velvet Animas to a set of Garbos with a gut G and I am loving this set - not as different from the Animas in a playing sense as I expected, but I love the sound - real old school Jazz! 
