chrkelly

[quote name='bob_pickard' post='1373626' date='Sep 14 2011, 07:46 PM']Hello, as some of you may know I play in a 50s rock & roll band, use a mag pickup and regularly do 3 hour sets and all that jazz or errm rock and roll.. Anyway I currently use a Spiro Weichs, mixture of slap and pizz (mostly pizz) and generally get blisters every gig and practice even after two years or so - sometimes I get away with it, mostly not! So is there a lower tension magnetic string I coud try? I don't want to go the piezo route, been there got fed up with the feedback [/quote] You'll get blisters using any string if your technique isn't sorted. I doubt going lower tension will help, it'll just take all the balls out of your sound. Practice in front of a mirror and take a good look at your right hand, you'll be putting in way too much effort getting the string to speak. Concentrate on getting as big a sound as possible but with as little movement in your hand & fingers as possible. It's all that wasted effort that's giving you blisters.

Go for it Jake. Anytime I play anything other than a p, it just feels like there's something missing. Nothing sits in a track so well. This will make you're mind up [url="http://youtu.be/ygCeBoYD9ps"]Chicken Grease[/url]

[quote name='73Jazz' post='1268491' date='Jun 14 2011, 12:11 PM']Definitely not. I know Labellas very well and also know the difference between broken in strings and new strings. but i also recognize the difference between two different production runs. It seems they use 2 different materials. And all my friends confirm if they have old sets they are dull and blunt and new sets are shiny and unfortunately not the same sound anymore.[/quote] I really hope that's not the case. I really love the old ones too. The p bass I've tried the new ones on is also new to me so I can't compare them properly at the moment. Fingers crossed I can get another 10 years out of the old ones before they lose their tuning.

I think it's just down to brand new strings versus ones that you've played for many years. I recently bought a FS gauge set for a new bass and noticed how shiny they were too. My other ones are about 5 years old and look really dull. On the bass though they react exactly the same as the old ones and definitely have the same sound characteristics, just a bit stiffer sounding and brighter (again down to being brand new). Give them 6 months and I'm sure they'll look and sound like the old ones.

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Good move Clarky, the AI heads are amazing pieces of gear. As you know that company's got the best after sales service in the business too. If you can, try it out with an Epifani UL112, it's a match made in heaven. Sounds glorious with a flatwound strung p bass too