Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: garyhead on August 26, 2022, 01:38:48 PM
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Tony Levin is currently in the UK for the upcoming Beatles fest in Liverpool. He has a 4-string Musicman with flat wound E A strings and round wound D G strings. Anyone try this??? Sounds like a simple solution for thump & twang!
This will be the first time in 42 years that the Double Fantasy band will play live.
Thinking this might throw a wrench into another thread about bandleaders rejecting the Bass sound.
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Upright bass players mix string sets regularly. Getting the bow to 'bite' better, getting more bottom end from the lower register, I even know one cat who likes a bare gut G and D, paired with a chromesteel wound A and E.
I guess it's all in getting what you need outta' the dang thing.
Personally, my OCD would totally fritz out.
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I thought about trying this but the opposite way. I would want flats for my G, D, and A strings and round wounds for the E and B. I love the thick fat sound of the high strings when playing on flats but am not so enamored with the sound of the E and particularly B strings.