{"id":790,"date":"2012-04-12T19:33:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=790"},"modified":"2013-08-06T18:32:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T23:32:34","slug":"cleaning-your-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/repair\/cleaning-your-strings.html","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning your strings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday’s post about Elixir strings<\/a> set-off an interesting discussion about the merits of cleaning your strings by boiling them. We had a ton of different people chime in with their opinions, both pro-boiling and anti-boiling.<\/p>\n

Some people thought it was great. Some people hated it. Opinions were spread out.<\/a><\/p>\n

But if there was any middle ground it was that boiling your strings will de-gunk-ify them and will work as a short time solution if you are in a pinch, but it will also ruin the integrity of the strings –\u00a0stifling\u00a0the tone and leading them to break more easily.<\/p>\n

However, what most people seemed to agree upon though was that there was some things you could do\u00a0maintenance-wise to keep gunk from building up in the first place.<\/p>\n

One solution was washing your hands before you pick up the bass. This is a great idea, and has the added benefit of keeping infectious diseases away (right Wiggles?<\/a>). The other was cleaning strings after every use – which doesn’t take much time, and can go a long way to keeping your strings sounding great.<\/p>\n

So today we’re taking a look at a string cleaner from Rotosound.<\/p>\n

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It clips over the strips to clean the strings from both sides, and uses microfiber pads to remove and hold debris without having to use any cleaning solution.<\/p>\n

The Rotosound String Cleaner works for all 4 or 5-string bass guitars and promises to revitalize old strings and preserve the life and tone of your strings.<\/p>\n

It retails for $22.95, but\u00a0it is available for order today at Best Bass Gear for $16<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What do you guys think? Does anybody who has used the Rotosound String Cleaner have any feedback?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After yesterday’s boiling strings debate we take a look at string cleaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,13,7,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790"}],"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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}