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So I finally set up my 4-string bass ... 
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Post So I finally set up my 4-string bass ...
using 130s.

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Tuned to BEAD of course, a little sumtin' sumtin' I picked up from the frimframtabulous Snaxie.

It sounds tremendous. Any of teh bassers on here should give it a whirl for kicks, it are nice.

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Post Re: So I finally set up my 4-string bass ...
I do not even have any idea what strings are on my bass at all. Whatever it left the SX factory with, er, several years ago? :lol:

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Post Re: So I finally set up my 4-string bass ...
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I do not even have any idea what strings are on my bass at all. Whatever it left the SX factory with, er, several years ago? :lol:


That is what I had on it as well.

Yeah, they are pretty damn light gauge, but not bad strings at all.

These feel like POWAHLIENS!

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Post Re: So I finally set up my 4-string bass ...
Hmm. I don't know if i would be into that. I have a weirdly light touch on all of my instruments. I used to be a brute, 12s/13s on the guitars, drumcorps sticks on the drums, breaking bass strings one a week, etc... But now, not so much.

Whatever the ghettochinese SX strings are on the bass i have now, i get along with pretty well. I suppose gaugewise, they are likely to be some sort of sissylight. :idk:

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Post Re: So I finally set up my 4-string bass ...
That is a very interesting concept.... a 4 string tuned like a 5 string.... whenever i get a bass in the distant future I just might have to try that :isay:


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Post Re: So I finally set up my 4-string bass ...
chris_d wrote:
Hmm. I don't know if i would be into that. I have a weirdly light touch on all of my instruments. I used to be a brute, 12s/13s on the guitars, drumcorps sticks on the drums, breaking bass strings one a week, etc... But now, not so much.

Whatever the ghettochinese SX strings are on the bass i have now, i get along with pretty well. I suppose gaugewise, they are likely to be some sort of sissylight. :idk:


Yeah.

Well these are not really very thick strings, considering I am tuned to BEAD. They would be considered your medium gauge 5-stringers. There are always lighter gauges for the tuning.

I think you might like to mess around with it just for the awesome bassy punch.

Then again, bass strings are fucking priiiiiicey. Goddamn.

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Post Re: So I finally set up my 4-string bass ...
How much of the nut did you have to ream out for that B string? Would going back to the previous gauge mean low E buzzing or a new nut?

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Post Re: So I finally set up my 4-string bass ...
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How much of the nut did you have to ream out for that B string? Would going back to the previous gauge mean low E buzzing or a new nut?



I took a little bit out of the nut, the B sits nicely but it could be a little more snug. I didn't take any more out because I thought about that as well, but I figure I might file it out to fit the 130, etc and grab a new nut if I decide to go back to standard (which would mean I bought a five string.

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Post Re: So I finally set up my 4-string bass ...
The A (E) string was an issue on my Jazz; the 100 kept popping out of the nut. :lol:

I might keep the thing and replace the pickups. Maybe MECs like what's in Warwicks. But I digress.

Also, clips nao. :red:

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Post Re: So I finally set up my 4-string bass ...
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The A (E) string was an issue on my Jazz; the 100 kept popping out of the nut. :lol:

I might keep the thing and replace the pickups. Maybe MECs like what's in Warwicks. But I digress.

Also, clips nao. :red:



I'm hoping to get some recording done tonight or tomorrow. School is whipping my ass all over the place.

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