Innovation trial sets - ever wanted to try Innovation? now's your chance!

[daflewis]

Hi Everyone,

I finally have some sets of Innovation strings ready to pass around on a trial basis...
The idea is that you borrow them for a couple of weeks and then pass them on to the next person on the list.... Or back to me if there's no one else waiting.

Please try and be careful when putting the strings on and taking them off as the windings can be damaged easily and please bear in mind that as everyone's bass has a slightly different stop length that there may be some loosening of the windings near the bridge (hopefully close enough to the bridge not to interfere with playing). I think that because of that I’m going to have to request that you don’t put them on an NS designs stick as the length from the bridge to the ball end is much longer than a normal bass so it will damage the strings too far up the playing area (and the standard strings are too short anyway) - sorry about that! (anyone wanting to try them on an NS please PM me and if we can get enough people wanting to try them then I’ll contact the company and arrange a longer set to pass around).

If you receive a set that is on the way out (or that breaks while you have it) please let me know - no fingers will be pointed i promise! But the sooner I know, the sooner I can arrange a replacement. That said, the longer we can make the strings last the more likely I am to be able to persuade the company to keep doing it; I'm sure you can imagine that if they're only getting half a dozen trials out of each set, then they're not going to see it as a justifiable expense.

I know some of you have already expressed an interest in a trail, but as I have no idea who's still up for it I'm going to have to start from scratch - (sorry if you find youself down the list!). Also i'm afraid that, at least for the moment, we're going to have to restrict it to the UK, otherwise some people could end up landed unfairly with a bill for postage to the states for example) apologies to those effected. (if there is enough interest from an individual country then I'll try and start a version there - PM me)

I'm going to start a thread for each string type - just reply to the thread to add your name to the list and when you've finished with the strings just look for the name below yours and PM them for an address. I don't see why this shouldn't work, but any problems, again, just PM me.

Finally, Once you've finished with the strings and passed them on it would be really useful if you could edit your original "interested" post saying what you thought of them (good or bad!) - this will also help everyone keep track of where we're at.
Here we go!

I’m starting with a few sets - silver slaps, rockabillies and honeys... I’ll be adding others shortly...