Using vaseline to deaden new strings?

[kode4food]

9 hours ago, Kev said:

14 years late! How did you find this thread? 😂

 

I was googling to see if anybody else had run into the problem of the G string on TI flats sounding dead. Somehow this thread came up

[Reggaebass]

Welcome kode 👍,I found  TI flats  quite bright as flats go, that doesn’t sound right to me, maybe a dud string, foam under the strings at the bridge will do the trick 

[Geek99]

On 20/07/2007 at 13:09, markdavid said:

Sorry if this seems like a dumb question but , I have heard about some bass players rubbing vaseline on there new strings to remove some of that trebly new string sound , I want to try this when I change my strings next , but I was wondering , will this do any harm to my bass especially the wood on the neck and fingerboard , also how much will this kill off the new string sound, I mainly use flatwounds

Just stick with flatwounds …is my advice and use foam at the bridge - I use a dishwashing sponge

 

Edited November 14, 2021 by Geek99

[Newfoundfreedom]

9 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

Just stick with flatwounds …is my advice and use foam at the bridge - I use a dishwashing sponge

 

 

I think the OP has probably figured it out out by now or doesn't care any more. 

 

It's a 14 year old post and the poster hasn't been on the forum in over a year. 

[Geek99]

I insist on an answer damnit 

ungrateful b’stard

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited March 15, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[chris_b]

3 hours ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

 

I think the OP has probably figured it out out by now or doesn't care any more. 

 

It's a 14 year old post and the poster hasn't been on the forum in over a year. 

 

Who gives a stinky poo!

 

There are thousands of bass players on this site and 14 year question or not, if this information is useful to someone today then it's a worthwhile answer.

[Newfoundfreedom]

15 minutes ago, chris_b said:

 

Who gives a stinky poo!

 

There are thousands of bass players on this site and 14 year question or not, if this information is useful to someone today then it's a worthwhile answer.

 

Calm down dear. 

 

It's just the internet. 

[Teebs]

On 31/07/2007 at 11:20, Alpha-Dave said:

I think the Chicken grease was James Jamerson - Thought I could be wrong...

I thought it was Bootsy!

I bet in 10 years time it'll be flea http://john.basschat.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/%3C#EMO_DIR%23%3E/smile.png

 

It was Flea.

 

[Lfalex v1.1]

On 14/11/2021 at 02:35, chris_b said:

Put some foam under the strings to deaden them a little. IMO Vaseline wouldn't deaden the strings but it would mess up anything else you touched!

 

In the 60's Binky McKenzie, a bassist with Alexis Korner's Free At Last, put Vaseline on his fretting fingers, but that was only to speed up his playing. I never saw him but friends who did were very impressed. Unfortunately his career as a bassist was cut short when he killed his parents and brother in law!!

Presumably because they swapped his vaseline (which my phone auto-corrects to "bassline"!) for Vicks..?

[bloke_zero]

There is a P-bass in the studio with 14 year old strings on it that regularly beats all comers head to head blind audio tests.  I'm pretty sure at least 10% of the sound is the strings - they are so dead but they sound so right! If vaseline could get you there, or chicken grease I'd be willing to give it a go!

[Reggaebass]

33 minutes ago, bloke_zero said:

chicken grease

Jerk chicken grease will spice up your basslines 😁

[RhysP]

On 14/11/2021 at 09:34, Newfoundfreedom said:

 

I think the OP has probably figured it out out by now or doesn't care any more. 

 

It's a 14 year old post and the poster hasn't been on the forum in over a year. 

If he hasn't changed his strings since he started the thread they should be pretty dead by now.