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1 minute ago, rollie 55 said:

you kinda right but guitars im going wobbley thinking about them😦

My son is a very good guitar player. Plays stuff like Iron Maiden. 

1 minute ago, rollie 55 said:

keys are good guitars well?

Dunno, I see all instruments as equal contributors to music (with the possible exception of the kazoo ).

26 minutes ago, rollie 55 said:

guitars fright'end me too many strings

Then how 'bout the sheer number of keys on a keyboard? 

19 minutes ago, rollie 55 said:

hello but i see 2 guitars mmm

The guitars are my son's.One of those has been replaced by a Fender Strat since September 2017. I do play some guitar, and keyboard, however.

A few examples:

I've been posting on BassChat for a few weeks now. It's a cozy place that feels like home.

35 minutes ago, kusee pee said:

I've just started a rough YouTube channel of my band's gigs as a promo tool.  Some of the clips are a bit rough, all live phone vids and the like, but this one came out nice and I was pretty pleased with the live sound.  What you think?

Certainly not bad, given the equipment used. Great bass playing, by the way. :-)

Oh, wait! Every other year I attempt to play guitar.  London Dungeon - Misfits.

My son on guitar. He mostly plays Iron Maiden like stuff, but made an exception for his dad.

I still didn't properly introduce myself, so here we go.

I was born in 1960, in The Netherlands. My father was a multi-instrumentalist. As far as I remember he played organ, piano, violin, harmonica, trombone and accordion. In my teens I played keyboard, but nothing special. Later, in my early twenties I was responsible for a youth bar, where I organised quite a few gigs. In the early 80's we had a few punk bands playing at our venue. Every time I saw a band playing, I thought if I had to choose an instrument, it would be the bass.

Many years passed, without playing any instrument at all. At the age of 36 I became father. Eight years later my son wanted to play guitar, so I bought him a cheap acoustic guitar. A few years later he wanted an electric guitar and lessons. We went to a music store to buy him a guitar, a combo and some small stuff. There it happened! I saw many basses on display... 

At home I tried his guitar when he was asleep. I found out that I really wanted a bass. I didn't even know what GAS was, but I did experience a severe GAS-attack. So I bought my first bass, an Ibanez GSR200EX. I still have it. I modified it to accommodate B, E, A and D strings, plus I removed the pre-amp and optimised a few details.

In real life I'm responsible for a thermo-physical calibration and research lab. I'm living in the direct vicinity of the lowest place in The Netherlands. That's about it. 

They loose some sustain and clearly some harmonics. In my opinion a broken in flatwound isn't bad at all.

A Happy, Healthy and Musical New Year, Friends!

At least four times a year I perform several check-ups and clean the board. As my fingers are dry as a desert, fretboards don't get dirty. On the G&L I change strings about every eight weeks, so I don't save all old string sets. I've got a few used sets, of course. Regarding stabilizing, I press the strings over the nut and saddles to set the break angle. Normally that's enough to get things stable. Retune the next day and I'm good to go.

Quickly swapping and tuning strings, just for fun. The strings were of the same brand and gauges, so intonation wasn't required.

Suddenly I remembered having posted a comparison of broken in Flatwounds and new ones, three and a half years ago on my YouTube channel. Here's a link...

I've got a clear message to Santa!  Happy holidays to all! 

3 hours ago, GisserD said:

can you send me the wav files?

I can, after having them dug out. They're on another PC, so maybe tonight... 

4 hours ago, GisserD said:

Interesting topic! You clearly have gone to a lot of trouble to record those!

Any chance you have a waterfall plot like the one below to show comparisons on a frequency scale?

 

No I don't. For further analysis I should have arrays with numerical data, which I don't have. The graphs were made directly from the wav-files.

24 minutes ago, 4000 said:

I’ve always got a rounder tone using thinner strings.

Rounder usually means more sine wave shaped, so less harmonics.

I don't think so!

A fatter string requires more tension in order to make it's higher mass resonate at a given frequency. More mass and tension require more energy for the same amplitude. Apart from the fundamental tone, harmonics appear along the string. The more energy, the more harmonics. As those harmonics are multiples of the fundamental frequency, the result will be a richer tone, not a fatter tone.

As the proof of the pudding is in the eating, I analysed the waveforms produced by both, thin and fat strings. It can be clearly seen that the percentage of harmonics versus the fundamental frequency depends on string gauge. In other words: Thinner strings produce more boom.

In the graph tone, gauge and tension are listed.

Motörhead's version of this Sex Pistols oldie

Some more upright fun

Some more ZZ Top...

D'addario flats is a safe option, as is Ernie Ball. There's no real difference between both. I was told D'addario used to produce Ernie Ball's flats till a few years ago.

A few years ago I tried the Cobalts, but I'm not a fan of those. They lost their semi-brightness rather quickly, the most frequently played strings first.

A video about upgrading and modifying my cheap Chinese P-Bass copy, with some serious metal jamming at the end. Enjoy!