sumorabbit Posted November 23 Share Posted November 23 Hi all, Suffice to say I have a very large pile of upright strings. Having had a few bad bouts of RSI, I had to go from steels to lower tension over the years. I play mostly functions these days, and by that I have to cover slap playing as well as the long overplayed post modern style. I finally settled last year on the RS400's (useless for arco but I've had to compromise), I have however bumped them to further alleviate RSI flair ups. Perfectly happy with ADG strings, I've learned to accommodate my playing to the floppiness. the E however is just near useless (using a bumped A). It's dull and muddy, I miss the steel string growl down there. My playing now avoids the E for 90% of the time. Does anybody have a suggestion of a string to try for the E? I've tried a Spiro A and E, Silver slap E, Euro sonic tape wound (this caused a lot of blistering for some reason), Gut a like A and E (copper and my ph don't mix, green within a week), Sugar slap A, SBW A and a few others I can't recall at the moment. I'm willing to dump some cash into getting this right, especially as Christmas gig season is impending and I'm out on upright for 6 gigs so far. I will add I use 2 pickup systems with a mixer close to hand, a copperhead into Fishman plat pro and a shadow RB-pro, I use either depending on the genre of the gig. Thanks peeps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted November 23 Share Posted November 23 Wish I could help but good luck finding a solution, I switched from guts to steels for a gig a couple of months back because I needed to use a mag PUP for volume/feedback reasons, and I was in pain both during the gig and for days afterwards. you're absolutely right to avoid that at all costs 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burns-bass Posted November 23 Share Posted November 23 When I had injured my arm (43 year old men probably shouldn’t play football two days before a gig) and I swapped to Golden Slaps which we met fine. I now play Orchestral Spiros now so slightly lower tension than Weichs and sound rich and full bodied. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumorabbit Posted November 23 Author Share Posted November 23 2 hours ago, Beedster said: Wish I could help but good luck finding a solution, I switched from guts to steels for a gig a couple of months back because I needed to use a mag PUP for volume/feedback reasons, and I was in pain both during the gig and for days afterwards. you're absolutely right to avoid that at all costs 👍 At its worse the RSI took me out of playing for around 12 months, I don't want to end up in that place again for sure. Gigs are literally more than 50% of my income, so I can't afford to be injured. I used to use a mag pickup with eurosonics, light enough tension but they made me blister like crazy. I don't think I could ever go back to steels now for fear of injury. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumorabbit Posted November 23 Author Share Posted November 23 Weichs were my preferred string, I can't use them anymore. I'm stuck in the ballpark of similar tension to gut now, maybe a smidge higher. Sadly I'm not sure the Orchestra spiro would be low enough. I did like golden/silver slaps, the silvers mucked up and went sticky really fast though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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