What's the purpose for a 85-175 string set?

[Glazenn]

Found this test video, to be used with a quality headphone set.


I start hearing the lows at 27,5 Hz (A0) and up to the highs at 8,000 Hz (C8).
F#0 is 23,125 Hz. Cannot be heard. And I'm 67 years old.
The volume is not linear, there are highs and throughs, and I don't know what are the limitations caused by my $20 headphone set.
The B-string on my 5-stringer bass is 30,868 Hz and the E-string is 41,203 Hz.
The highest note (21st fret on the G-string) is 311 Hz (Eb4).

Many other hearing tests at:
Online Tone Generator - generate pure tones of any frequency
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[Element Zero]

I can hear a low F# played on a bass. You can’t @Glazenn?

 

[NKBassman]

I can hear a low F# played on a bass. You can’t @Glazenn?

You can hear the various overtones which your amp and cab are capable of reproducing.

Human hearing is broadly generalized as falling between 20-20,000 Hz. The Low F# fundamental is seriously pushing that lower limit. Not to mention that a lot of amps will have internal high pass filters hardwired in to filter out what most designers would consider useless sub-low frequencies, because most commercial bass cabs won’t be able to reproduce that low stuff anyway.

 

[Element Zero]

You can hear the various overtones which your amp and cab are capable of reproducing.

Human hearing is broadly generalized as falling between 20-20,000 Hz. The Low F# fundamental is seriously pushing that lower limit. Not to mention that a lot of amps will have internal high pass filters hardwired in to filter out what most designers would consider useless sub-low frequencies, because most commercial bass cabs won’t be able to reproduce that low stuff anyway.

If we’re talking strictly of the fundamental, yes I agree. My acoustic B200 combo is not a high caliber piece of gear, but a friends 4 string tuned that low seems to work just fine.

 

[NKBassman]

If we’re talking strictly of the fundamental, yes I agree. My acoustic B200 combo is not a high caliber piece of gear, but a friends 4 string tuned that low seems to work just fine.

Yeah I was speaking strictly about the fundamental frequency. If it works for you, then all is well.

 

[Element Zero]

I think I may have come across high and mighty or a bit jerk-ish in this thread. Apologies to all.

 

[Uncle Hanky]

I've seen a band called The Acacia Strain several times. Their current bassist tunes to drop F, and uses Orange heads and a pair of Mesa/Boogie 8x10s. Believe me: if you can't HEAR it, you can certainly FEEL it!

 

[ixlramp]

F#0 is 23,125 Hz. Cannot be heard. And I'm 67 years old.
The volume is not linear, there are highs and throughs, and I don't know what are the limitations caused by my $20 headphone set.

A lower frequency requires more volume to hear, the test may not boost volume to compensate, you could try boosting volume yourself, however the reason is probably $20 headphones that you don't know the reproduction range of.
But of course, hearing the fundamental is irrelevant to low bass strings.

 

[Skybone]

Dub Reggae?

 

[saved]

I jave used the set with the .175 a few years back.
Loaded on a vig cobra select 5 strings.
No neck adjaustment needed.
Sounded very cool with my fearful 15/6

 

[Stu_Bass]

MAS 38 Special claims -3dB @ 32 hz

 

[Jensby design]

and and distorted Bass guitar does not produces a sine wave.