What Gauge Strings do you Play?

[elevenstrings]

.200, .150, .125, .106, .085, .062, .044, .026, .021, .015, .012

[Ancient Astronaught]

.200, .150, .125, .106, .085, .062, .044, .026, .021, .015, .012

7 string bass with octaves on the top 4?

[elevenstrings]

.200, .150, .125, .106, .085, .062, .044, .026, .021, .015, .012

7 string bass with octaves on the top 4?

My screen name should make it obvious.... if not:

[mathias]

[Ancient Astronaught]

.200, .150, .125, .106, .085, .062, .044, .026, .021, .015, .012

7 string bass with octaves on the top 4?

My screen name should make it obvious.... if not:

Your fingers must be really really long........

[ryan summit]

what the fuck is that
im havin trouble with 6
if i had that
id probably still just play the top string
any vids of you playin that thing

[bigchiefbc]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqGwj968-6E[/youtube]

[Ancient Astronaught]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqGwj968-6E[/youtube]

So it's like a chapman stick or a warr guitar, mainly built for tapping.

[skullservant]

Jean, do you have piezo saddles in that guitar to be able to pick up the tapping more, or is it all in the pickups?

[dubkitty]

[elevenstrings]

So it's like a chapman stick or a warr guitar, mainly built for tapping.

I do a lot of tapping, but you can play it like a normal bass or guitar. It's tuned in 4ths and the string spacing is between a guitar and bass (15mm) - but the scale length is more bass-like. http://jeanbaudin.bandcamp.com/ - ephemera has no tapping... and Crustacean is mostly finger too (well, 18 seconds of tapping near the middle-end). On my first CD there's a song called "krackatoa" (I think it's on youtube) with mostly slap/pop and fingerstyle (no tapping)... so, it can definitely be played like a normal bass or guitar (it has the full range of both plus an additional lower octave [actually, 10 notes] than a 5-string bass).

Jean, do you have piezo saddles in that guitar to be able to pick up the tapping more, or is it all in the pickups?

No piezos in that bass... not really crazy about that tone (I had a conklin 9 and 11-string with piezos). I'm not sure what it is about this instrument but it has some kind of natural compression... not sure if it's the wood combo or the pickups or the strings (or a combo of them) - but the high strings are totally even with the low strings. On almost every other bass I've had with 9 or more strings, there has always been an inbalance between the lower strings and the higher strings where I would have to play softer on the fatter strings and have to play harder on the thin strings... not so for this one. Ken Lawrence is making me two more (a fretless and a fretted with the strings shifted up a major 3rd) so I'm hoping those 2 are balanced as well.

[bigchiefbc]

So it's like a chapman stick or a warr guitar, mainly built for tapping.

I do a lot of tapping, but you can play it like a normal bass or guitar. It's tuned in 4ths and the string spacing is between a guitar and bass (15mm) - but the scale length is more bass-like. http://jeanbaudin.bandcamp.com/ - ephemera has no tapping... and Crustacean is mostly finger too (well, 18 seconds of tapping near the middle-end). On my first CD there's a song called "krackatoa" (I think it's on youtube) with mostly slap/pop and fingerstyle (no tapping)... so, it can definitely be played like a normal bass or guitar (it has the full range of both plus an additional lower octave [actually, 10 notes] than a 5-string bass).

Jean, do you have piezo saddles in that guitar to be able to pick up the tapping more, or is it all in the pickups?

No piezos in that bass... not really crazy about that tone (I had a conklin 9 and 11-string with piezos). I'm not sure what it is about this instrument but it has some kind of natural compression... not sure if it's the wood combo or the pickups or the strings (or a combo of them) - but the high strings are totally even with the low strings. On almost every other bass I've had with 9 or more strings, there has always been an inbalance between the lower strings and the higher strings where I would have to play softer on the fatter strings and have to play harder on the thin strings... not so for this one. Ken Lawrence is making me two more (a fretless and a fretted with the strings shifted up a major 3rd) so I'm hoping those 2 are balanced as well.

I'd love to try a more extreme extended-range bass like that, but I can't even fathom trying to play something that big as a fretless

[Boxbie]

You guys complaining that your fat .24 plain G's sound dead should really give wound G's a try.

Somehow I've ended up doing all the noodlework, so wound's not really an option.

I'm digging those neon strings! It's a shame they don't do a thicker gauge than 11's!

[crohny]

I use 24.75 scale guitars and play in A standard so I use D
addario baritone strings that are .014-.068. When I played in C standard I used .013-.056 ej22s. Big fan of D' Addario strings in general.

[crohny]

.200, .150, .125, .106, .085, .062, .044, .026, .021, .015, .012

7 string bass with octaves on the top 4?

My screen name should make it obvious.... if not:

This hurts my brain! I wouldn't know what to do with this thing hahaha. Pretty fucking rad though. Far cooler than 7 to 9 string guitars. Not that I am knocking anyone who uses them, just can't stand how they feel in my hand.