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Old 12-13-2009, 02:52 PM
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Just save us some trouble and tell us they suck. I'm very happy with my sound as it is right now, but there's always something to tweak and play with. I love the concept of the Velvet strings (this guy helped found that company, right) but they just don't have the sound that I get from good old Chorda's.

And now some questions. How "gut-like" are they in your mind? And how loud are they? Those are the two qualities I am most interested in. Oh yeah, one more: Are they all the same tension, like Velvets?
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Old 12-13-2009, 04:19 PM
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A couple answers....

I couldn't speak to how gut like they are never having had other gut strings on my bass. Give that they are made with a gut core, I have to assume they are pretty gut like Of course, all four are wound which makes them a bit different than the normal set of guts with 2 wound and 2 plain gut strings.

As for volume, my bass is definitely louder with these strings than it has been with any other set of strings I've had on it, which are: Corelli 370M, Bel Canto, and Spirocore Weich.

Finally, yes, they are all the same tension. In the case of the TWINE set the tension is 23kp.


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Just save us some trouble and tell us they suck. I'm very happy with my sound as it is right now, but there's always something to tweak and play with. I love the concept of the Velvet strings (this guy helped found that company, right) but they just don't have the sound that I get from good old Chorda's.

And now some questions. How "gut-like" are they in your mind? And how loud are they? Those are the two qualities I am most interested in. Oh yeah, one more: Are they all the same tension, like Velvets?
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Old 12-13-2009, 04:29 PM
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Thanks for the quick answers. I appreciate. My string lust has been quelled.
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