Felt not foam mutes

[Owen]

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I know how foam and even an old sock change the attack of strings but I had never heard felt mutes in action. It is different and I like it.

[icastle]

[quote name='owen' post='1059139' date='Dec 14 2010, 11:21 PM'][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwYoi9G67DU&feature=player_embedded"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwYoi9G67DU...player_embedded[/url]

I know how foam and even an old sock change the attack of strings but I had never heard felt mutes in action. It is different and I like it.[/quote]

They use felt inside pianos to do that

[Cat Burrito]

I like the tone here but I'll be sticking with my foam.

[BassBod]

Our very own Wesley Steed recently fitted my J bass with the "original style" metal/felt mutes. Combined with Pyramid black plastic flats its almost a time travel experience - way back to the Fender Bass sound of the 60's. I'm currently using it for most of my jazz gigs, rather than EUB. The only thing is I feel the need to keep the huge bridge cover on so the felt pads don't get pulled around when its in the gig bag.

[Legion]

I spoke to a company once that make proper felt and very kindly they sent me some "samples" which were anything up to about 1cm deep. I used a very sharp craft knife blade to cut it into little squares that I stuck onto one of my old stingrays mutes (originals long rotted away). It works really nicely, still got a few bits left somewhere if you need a some.

[Truckstop]

I really want to get some mutes fitted to my Jazz. Anyone know where I can get some? I've seen some on Allparts, but without a picture i'm not sure if they're the ones I'm after.

Cheers

Alex