E&A strings reversed..

[Drake Chan]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

Many players who have C-Ext's on other Basses string their non ext. Bass the same way so the E and A is always in the same place.

Personally, I think it opens the sound up a bit as well extending the after length. The Candi Bass is now strung that way as well and sounds great. The web pics of the Candi were taken before I switched the A and E around on the pegs. My Storioni is strung that way as well.

I just switched the A and E strings from their normal respective pegs on my school's carved Juzek, I have to say that I am now a believer of this method.

In their previous "normal" positions, the A string lacked power and volume while the E string had decent power but felt really tight. Now, the A string is feels much tighter and has a good deal more volume. It feels and sounds very similar to the D string now. The E feels and sounds much looser and pliant now with the longer afterlength. But the biggest benefit of the switch is that the E has a much broader and bigger bottom. Playing it open, it now sounds almost organ-like, though perhaps a bit less direct.

I love the sound up close, but I don't know what it sounds like far away (which I think is more relevant to the audience). But for now, count me as a convert.

I also had problems with a harsh G string, so I put a Pirastro rubber tone filter on my G string. Meh, give me a couple of days, but I think it sounded better without it. I've been told that a soundpost adjustment may be the reason the bass seems to hate G strings (I've tried a Flexocor, Original and '92, and I've tried an Obligato; they all had a twangy guitar quality to them. The current Helicore orchestral seems to work best so far). I really need to get this bass setup one of these days.