A bass that sounds “piano-like” isn’t a term that’s used very often, but it’s a good one to know to understand why some bass players hate new strings so much.<\/p>\n
You know that there are some players out there who purposely prefer old, used strings. Part of the reason for that is to avoid<\/em> the piano-like sound.<\/p>\n When you install a brand new set out roundwound strings on a bass, they obviously belt out a bunch of overtones and harmonics, sounding similar to how a low piano string would sound with a bit of “weeeoooowww” tone to it. That’s the piano sound.<\/p>\n Eventually, those roundwound strings will wear in and the piano-like sound will go away. But it takes some time for them to get to that point. <\/p>\n Conversely, a reason why many slap players change out strings often is to keep that somewhat-twangy piano-like sound there.<\/p>\n The piano-like sound is neither good nor bad and more or less depends on your personal tone preference. You either hate it or you love it.<\/p>\n For those of you that hate<\/em> it specifically, no, tweaking EQ really doesn’t work to “de-twang” roundwound strings (the only thing you’ll get from that is ‘dull twang’, but not the ‘warm’ sound). The way to work in roundwound is to simply play, play, play until they’re eventually broken in to the point where the twang has been worked out of the strings.<\/p>\n Do you prefer old strings for that “darker”\/”warmer” tone specifically?<\/strong> Post a comment or two with your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A bass that sounds “piano-like” isn’t a term that’s used very often, but it’s a good one to know to understand why some bass players hate new strings so much. You know that there are some players out there who purposely prefer old, used strings. Part of the reason for that is to avoid the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}