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[joe.]

anyone any tips for cleaning slightly rusty guitar/bass strings? I have some that have only been played a couple of times yet managed to get a bit rusty in storage.....
I heard soaking in virgins blood was the metal way to go.... but it didn't work.... and now I feel quite faint!

 

[Pantone247]

guitar strings that have rusted have to go.....don't be chaep about it, just dump them

there is a legend about basss strings, that you can boil them.
It would seem you take the odl strings off, boil them in water for a while,
then stick them back on, they should (??) sound brighter and have have a bit more strech in them.

apparatly

actually has any ever tried it??

 

[Pantone247]

jeez my spellings gotten even worse since I became a sheep.

 

[joe.]

that'll be the foot n' mouth....

 

[L8R]

I used to boil bass strings and it works well. They last about three times as long. I dont do that anymore.

Thats the cheap way though.

The best idea is spend about £40 on decent bass strings and change them every 6 weeks or so

 

[joe.]

40 bills every 6 weeks!!!?!??!? I'm with the boiling option
dam! I knew I should have played guitar!

I wonder how often lemmy changes his strings?

 

[L8R]

I play about 4 gigs a week so it's worth not only putting new strings on the bass I play, but also on the backup bass as well.

People like lemmy prolly just buy a new guitar ...

 

[L8R]

boiling is good though - just dont boil them for more than 7-10 minutes - depending on the state of the strings, they could fall to bits....

 

[Pantone247]

6 weeks !!! you obviously like your bright high end new string sound.

I think new bass strings don't start to sound good till about 6 weeks, they start to mellow in tone (if you excuse the howy pouncey that sounds) and get really bassy sounding......RRRRUUUUUUMMMMBBBBLLLLLLEEE!!!!!

matter of taste I suppose.

 

[#10-7]

y'know yer man sting?
well he won't play a set of bass strings more than once apperently.
the bassist in our band boils the strings a fair bit, and they sound pretty good, but ye can't beat the sound of new strings every once in a while!

 

[pete]

boiling bass strings is good alright - but only if you do it after 2 years so that there's a good accumulation of flakes of dead skin to come out....

Anyway to avoid that mark king bass sound, don't do it.

I personally recommend using the same set of bass strings for 5 or 6 years. Unless one breaks of course....

that would just be silly

 

[jim mac lunch]

i wholeheartedly agree....
i've had the same guitar strings for 3 years now....
the sound is so dead that all the notes sound the same therefore covering up my god awful guitar playing...
and that my friends is a result.....

 

[Pantone247]

pete (08 Mar, 2001 12:34 p.m.):
boiling bass strings is good alright - but only if you do it after 2 years so that there's a good accumulation of flakes of dead skin to come out....

Anyway to avoid that mark king bass sound, don't do it.

I personally recommend using the same set of bass strings for 5 or 6 years. Unless one breaks of course....

that would just be silly

I've had me bass guitar for about six years now, and I can only remeber changing 2 strings, both cause they broke.
[both broke just minutes before gigs to ]

bass playing rawks, guitarist are merely decoration.

 

[L8R]

Pantone247 (08 Mar, 2001 12:24 p.m.):
6 weeks !!! you obviously like your bright high end new string sound.

I think new bass strings don't start to sound good till about 6 weeks, they start to mellow in tone (if you excuse the howy pouncey that sounds) and get really bassy sounding......RRRRUUUUUUMMMMBBBBLLLLLLEEE!!!!!

matter of taste I suppose.

if you get the strings with the black coating, they sound cool from the word go.

 

[Pantone247]

this is very vaugely cool if you look at jim mac lunchs dog thingy up there, it looks likes it looking down and eyeing up my sheep.

So whats the general concensus seeing as their a fwe bass players posting (a flock of bass players, a herd??)

twangy honky bass sound (new strings, plectrum, lots of trebble)??

or rumbley shakey bass sound (old rope like strings and blistered sore fingers)??

 

[snap-apple]

strings soooo old you hit the brown note...

 

[pete]

ok my personal preference was my 5 string aria fretless bass with old olden strings played to death with everything tuned down 5 semitones, so the B string tuned down to G; E tuned down to C or whatever, all played through one o' them orange Boss distortion pedals (a heavy metal?) and a trace elliot head with a marshall bass cab

loud

oh yes

them was the days indeed

 

[snap-apple]

pete - with everything downtuned 5 semitones did the strings not flop about alot? if i detune my E even jsut down to D it sounds shit - maybe need higher quality strings?
i 'ad an aria fretless a few years back - loverly but i'd only been playing for about a year at the time and traded it in 'cos it were too tricky to use... pooh.

 

[pete]

yeah there was the flop factor to contend with

but you actually get used to it after a while and then "normal" tuning feels weird....

 

[L8R]

could you use arrows with it