jay Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 I've been checking out some Kala Ubass's and can't believe the tone you can get out of them! Apparently all that deep tone is coming out of the polyurethane strings. In the absence of £300-400 sitting around to buy one, I was wondering what those type of strings might sound like on my regular acoustic (not double). So two questions I suppose, Do long scale polyurethane strings exist? Would they work/sound good on a regular acoustic bass? Any comments much appreciated! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay Posted May 21, 2012 Author Share Posted May 21, 2012 Have I asked a silly question? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dood Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Check out this chirpy lil chap with rubber strings. I guess it would be a fore-runner to the Kala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashbory_bass http://www.largesound.com/ You can buy the shorter strings for these instruments ok, but I seem to remember that there was a reason why long versions weren't *really* possible. Tension and tuning I guess? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dood Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 p.s. there's a video floating around from a BassChat 'Bash' back in the day when the forum was called BassWorld, where I am ill treating an Ashbory bass with a bit of slap n' tap! EDIT - found it! on my rather old MySpace! http://www.myspace.com/video/dood-on-bass/the-bassworld-bash-2007-northampton/7199917 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Rich Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 [quote name='jay' timestamp='1337589998' post='1662244'] I've been checking out some Kala Ubass's and can't believe the tone you can get out of them! Apparently all that deep tone is coming out of the polyurethane strings. In the absence of £300-400 sitting around to buy one, I was wondering what those type of strings might sound like on my regular acoustic (not double). So two questions I suppose, Do long scale polyurethane strings exist? Would they work/sound good on a regular acoustic bass? Any comments much appreciated! Thanks [/quote] I expect someone will come along soon and say nitro strings sound better than poly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB1 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 'Fat Rich' I expect someone will come along soon and say nitro strings sound better than poly MB1. Cheese strings taste better.. [right]Coat Collected.[/right] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 [quote name='MB1' timestamp='1337611977' post='1662743'] 'Fat Rich' I expect someone will come along soon and say nitro strings sound better than poly MB1. Cheese strings taste better.. [right]Coat Collected.[/right] [/quote] That's debatable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay Posted May 23, 2012 Author Share Posted May 23, 2012 But do cheese strings sound better? I'll have to give that a go... Any suggestion as to some nice doublesk sounding strings to pop on an acoustic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipideebass Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 I got a nice balanced sound on my warwick alien with black nylon Gallon strings. Not p'urethane really, must have had a metal core. Think I got from stringbusters or such to try and liked them. Good subject m8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipideebass Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 (edited) For Gallon read Galli.... Darny productive text Try. Stringbusters.com. just checked. £31 Edited May 26, 2012 by zipideebass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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