Any Impressions on the strings positive or negative. It seems to me I've read more negative than positive. Thanks for your help.
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In the thread for the whole set I wrote a bunch about them. I gave them a serious try, but threw in the towel on them recently. I'll summarize:
1. acoustically they balance nice with the set on my bass, and I like the way they sound.
2. amplified they are super noisy because of the windings. shifting and sliding is also a challenge at first because of the same reason.
3. while I liked them initially, both the E and A gave up their windings in less than a year. too much hassle for me - back to synthetics.
Feel free to float any specific questions at me.
1. acoustically they balance nice with the set on my bass, and I like the way they sound.
2. amplified they are super noisy because of the windings. shifting and sliding is also a challenge at first because of the same reason.
3. while I liked them initially, both the E and A gave up their windings in less than a year. too much hassle for me - back to synthetics.
Feel free to float any specific questions at me.
I had a set of red diamonds on my Cleveland plywood for a while. I took them off because the tension felt too low and the sound was muddy. The low tension is across all the strings but especially on the G and D.
I'm used to plain gut G and D with spiro E and A, and the Red Diamonds are very different to that. They have a winding on every string, and they're made from cheaper gut.
I should have saved the unravelled string, but I got depressed and binned it.
The windings are a problem too- When I took the set off my bass, the G string unravelled.
Having said all that, they have a big sound!
Last week I put the E and A back on my bass with plain gut G and D (1 lenzner and 1 random gamut i think).
This is a much better combination to my ears.
So my conclusion is that the E and A make an acceptable complement to plain guts up top on my bass.
They are cheap for an all gut set though- good for testing the waters.
I'm used to plain gut G and D with spiro E and A, and the Red Diamonds are very different to that. They have a winding on every string, and they're made from cheaper gut.
I should have saved the unravelled string, but I got depressed and binned it.
The windings are a problem too- When I took the set off my bass, the G string unravelled.
Having said all that, they have a big sound!
Last week I put the E and A back on my bass with plain gut G and D (1 lenzner and 1 random gamut i think).
This is a much better combination to my ears.
So my conclusion is that the E and A make an acceptable complement to plain guts up top on my bass.
They are cheap for an all gut set though- good for testing the waters.
Update: the A string has become unwound between the fingerboard and the bridge. I had it on my bass for two weeks.
I think i’ll look for another brand of gut, the Red Diamond are too fragile for me.
I think i’ll look for another brand of gut, the Red Diamond are too fragile for me.
I have Red Diamond E and A - with Lenzner D & G - on one of my ply basses. I got them slightly used on the classifieds here a couple of weeks ago. Nice full gut sound.