Rabbie

Good on ya sir. For me there is no other string but Gut. Yet I do understand the predicament of those who bow a lot.

Try the eq first. I used to have an underwood and a shuttle 3 and with the settings above I had a great sound (within reason)

The eq you need to scoop to get rid of finger noise and quacks is not the high, it is the mid. Try to forget the preamp, plug in straight int the genz shuttle, keep low and high around 12 o'clock, mid down to 7-8 o'clock and the mid frequency dial turned to taste somewhere between 1-4 o'clock. That should give you a bassy sound. You can the add mids to taste if you want to cut through more. After that, adjust low and high to taste. Scooping mids will also help feedback.

1000% NOT plain gut. But on the positive side, they must be well made because look at how well the taping and especially the windings have lasted in 50 years. Bottom line, do they sound good?

Simple:
1) Blast Cult Low life's strings
2) Mag pickup
3) Crank it up to 11
Done

You are absolutely correct Spencer, The time to settle is common to all guts. The only slapping concern I have depends on not knowing what the term "medium+" means inn practical terms (I.e. when compared to regular non-boutique guts like the Lenzner). The fancy tension charts don't answer the question unfortunately. It just needs someone to have tried both and give an account of how the different tension feels. Of course I believe that Gamut has an infinitely more accomplished sound, but if my fingers were to hurt after every gigs/recording, they would still be no use to me, that's all.

My main concern is tension over gig-time as I do slap quite a bit. Any thoughts?
Oh and by the way what kind of Gamuts are they: Lyon? Pistoy?
Thank you very much

Woooo. Tempting. I'm not familiar with what medium+ mean. Can you please explain it with reference to a regular gut set, say Lenzner?
Ta

+ 1 beer of the bass. The bridge will be in its raw form and will require a massive amount of mods to fit to your bass. This is standard luthier work. I'd say save the money, take your bass to a luthier and adapt your current bridge by adding adjusters and have him tweak the action to your requirement.

50 years ago they had no nylon strings. If they look like gut and they are really 50 years old they are gut. Unless whoever gave you them told you a porky (or a genuine wrong info) and gave you a set of weedwackers.

Ps if they look like a taped string they probably are not plain gut. Post a photo, like suggested and you'll soon know

50 years old?!?!? Joke I take it.
I'd say a tad of wear and tear is forgivable then.
If they are not regularly clipped and oiled, gut strings do fray. I oil mine regularly and they still fray a bit. Guts are also not meant to be put on and off a bass regularly: that process does mangle the windings at peg end.
Honestly though: 50 years old???
If they are in pristine condition after that time they may never have been used in which case there will be no fraying, so in theory it is possible. Put bass gut strings in google and look at the images: they should look like yours.

+ 1 to Rev.
I do the exact same, although I use different amps whatever is provided as a back line on gig, doesn't matter much to me as it's only used as monitor. I normally just dial out most of the bad mids on the stage bass amp, keep the rest flat and eq the fishman to my liking, which is then also the signal going FOH. If I really can't get to grips with the stage amp, I do go in the effect return as volume is not important when it's only used for monitoring. I ask the engineer not to change the character of that sound and adjust bits and bobs to fit the room. Most of the time it works.
If playing a gig with small PA I will take my own amp with one or two cabs and go straight in there (GB shuttle) with no fishman at all.
Works for me, so far...

Cancel this please. As I wrote above, Chadwick is superb for customer service already posted replacements. The guy knows how to keep a customer: hats off.

Hello friends,
The tuning machines of my folding bass are knackered: possibly a mix of frequent tuning/detuning, age, thick strings and bad luck. I think I am pretty sure they are at the end of their life. Now, what do I change them with?
The folding bass is modified by Chadwick but it's a Shen laminate bass, with Shen tuners. Charlie Chadwick is a fantastic guy for customer service and has offered to send me some replacement tuners, but I was wondering if I could save him the trouble of shipping them from US and source the same tuners here or even better, swap them for better quality ones. Does anyone have any knowledge on either where to source Shen tuners or if any other tuners (ie Rubner) would fit with no mods needed?

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My Latin to O level was taught by an England footballer who was our gym master but 'did' Latin on the side.
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Brilliant!! Sorry to derail the thread but that is a gem.

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[i]Nil carborundum illegitimi.[/i]
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Hopefully it's not a case of an illegittemi luthier, just a mistake. Illegittemi anyhow is "bas***d" only in the not being wanted by your mummy sense, not in the more common sense of the expletive as we use it...
This is a very erudite place to be!

Snap Kev, posted same thing at the exact same time...

Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum
Just to quote the Romans here...
Basically anyone can make a mistake, but if they are arrogant about it and don't agree to fix it, it is then that I would consider shaming, but only of you are 1000% sure he was in the wrong, otherwise it is your name that could end up tarnished. I claim record for the first sentence in Latin to appear on Basschat...

He should cut you a new bridge with the pick up installed properly at no charge and no questions asked. There are not many DB players around and he cannot afford his name being shamed for something as basic as fitting some adjusters (which is all a full circle is). He gotta be pretty
Bad or be having a pretty bad day to muck that up.

Where is it?

If you want to hear how it sounds I can link you to a couple of albums I have played it on, one with steels and one with guts. PM me if you wish

Can you not hire a bass there? It is a lot safer. A but if research will surely reveal a good music shop that could hire at reasonable rate. I have hired In the past and always found it a lot less stressful and not such a terrible compromise unless your setup requirements are very unusual and the music you play would be too tricky to execute on a bass you don't know.

I am the worst exponent of arco in the world. So don't take my word for it, but guts are bowable. In fact before steels that's kinda all they had. I know what you mean about the typical sound, doesn't bother me but again, I hardly ever bow.

Guts