Double Bass Thomastik Superflexible Solos

#23
So its been about 9 months now that I'm playing the solos and I am ready to get off this ride. It was good and I can still make em go fine but there is this one thing that bothers me about them. They tend to rattle a little bit when plucked just right which is how I play. Just right. LOL. I'm also using the Krivo with the K&K pre and I don't care for the tone. Especially the click. And I do have a clicky pickup under the fingerboard. I'm ready to loop back around and do what @Keith Rawlings and many others have said. I'm going to try a HPF. I see Broughton has them for less than $100. I can go back to the guts or the innovations and start from scratch.
 
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Slaphound said:
So its been about 9 months now that I'm playing the solos and I am ready to get off this ride. It was good and I can still make em go fine but there is this one thing that bothers me about them. They tend to rattle a little bit when plucked just right which is how I play. Just right. LOL. I'm also using the Krivo with the K&K pre and I don't care for the tone. Especially the click. And I do have a clicky pickup under the fingerboard. I'm ready to loop back around and do what @Keith Rawlings and many others have said. I'm going to try a HPF. I see Broughton has them for less than $100. I can go back to the guts or the innovations and start from scratch.
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I say do it. It took me lots of experimentation to finally get the sound I like; but the HPF built into my AI Clarus was a game changer for me. Such a warm tone with no feedback — even at decent volumes. It’s so worth it - Good luck!
 
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My Roma ply came with orchestral strings and in a severe need of a fingerboard leveling. After a visit to the luthier I went first with Superfexables and a Krivo pickup, but I could never keep the dang thing on the bass with 3M hook and loop, car trim putty, or anything else. I'd start slapping and it would just vibrate right off. I didnt want to start drilling holes and installing mounting brackets and screws, so I scrapped the whole system and went to Innovation Rockabilly Reds and a Shadow Preamp/dual pickup system and never looked back. Only problem is they aren't bowable, but I'm no trained player and the call for that is like, almost never. If I needed to bow though, the Superflexables would go right back on. They are nice strings.
 
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