Help to ID DB strings ?!

[eubassix]

Hope some BC'ers can help to ID these string sets (and their 'nature' / Tension) from the photos:-

Set 1: red silks top & bottom - currently fitted (I find them very 'stiff').

Set 2: purple silks top & bottom.

Set 3: green/gold silks (bottom) & green/black/gold/red (E-G) silks top.

[Legion]

1. looks like Thomastik Spirocore Mittels

No idea on the others sorry

Edited November 11, 2014 by Legion

[Legion]

3. Looks like the green/gold could be helicore hybrids

edit: almost certainly...

[url="http://www.sharmusic.com/Strings/Bass-Strings/D-Addario-Helicore-Double-Bass-Hybrid-String-Set.axd#sthash.g5i211mk.dpbs"]http://www.sharmusic.com/Strings/Bass-Strings/D-Addario-Helicore-Double-Bass-Hybrid-String-Set.axd#sthash.g5i211mk.dpbs[/url]

Edited November 11, 2014 by Legion

[Beer of the Bass]

Set one are very likely to be Spirocore Mittels, and that would fit with the high tension feel. If they have greyish ball ends with roman numerals on them it's a definite.
Set two look a lot like Thomastik Dominants. If they are, they'll be fairly stiff feeling when they're off the bass. Dominants feel fairly similar to play to the Spirocore Mittels (marginally softer feeling but not by much), but they have stranded nylon cores rather than steel. They're loud with a big fundamental but still some growl when played pizz and they bow a little more easily than the Spiros. They are known for breaking more easily than other strings, and I stopped using them for this reason. It's a shame, as I liked them otherwise.

[iiipopes]

Here is an aplet that you plug in the instrument, color at each end, and if it is a conventional string, then it should be recognized and identified:
[url="http://www.quinnviolins.com/qv_stringidsearch.shtml"]http://www.quinnviol...gidsearch.shtml[/url]

That said, the Reds are probably Spirocore Mittels, and the light blues are probably Superflexibles. I don't know what the others are.

Edited November 12, 2014 by iiipopes

[Beer of the Bass]

I had a look at the photos I took when I cleared out some spare strings a while back, and here's a Dominant for comparison. I'd say yours are a very close match. They're not Superflexibles, as those have the same larger aluminium ball ends as Spirocores and the windings are a lighter blue.

Edited November 12, 2014 by Beer of the Bass