I put upright bass strings on this bass guitar...and I'm never taking them off!
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"I put strings on this bass guitar...and I'm never taking them off!" - every bassist ever
"Put strings on"? 🤔
What are you talking about?
All mine already had strings on when I bought them, you can buy them without strings and then have to put them on yourself? That seems like a lot of extra work, and expense.
Just buy the ones with strings already on mate, you'll be set for the next 20 or 30 years at least! 🙂👍
If you use decent flatwounds then you’ll never notice the difference
😂
I say that. But then it gets to the point my fingers smell bitter and metallic after playing and eventually I buy a new set.
Your words are hurtful.
You've just nailed that Motown/Northern Soul sound that lots of people have been after for ages, only it's the super expensive method. But hey, well done you!
It's been a while since I changed double bass strings and oof I didn't realize they'd gotten to around $100 by now.
And the rest!
A _decent_ set of upright strings are seriously expensive
Don't I know it! @@MidlifeRenaissanceMan
"You've just nailed that Motown/Northern Soul sound that lots of people have been after for ages" wouldn't that be P-bass + flatwounds + sponge under the bridge
The bow actually worked pretty well
I liked it too!... just some practice to gain a bit of control.
@@nintzelj You'd probably have to modify a bit too to be able to play each separate string. It's too flat as is.
i thought so
Drone me a sweet lullaby from the darkest depths of debauchery, the bow made it a Monster! Love it!
I thought the bow had a cool sound. I also like the look of the twisted strings on it.
Your first effort with a bow sounds worlds better than some beginner violinists that I've heard.
Frets help with that haha
It really does!!
That's a signature bass tone
Behs
Mr. Sapko,
I have now subscribed, partly because you have a 2-pickup bass with a real neck pickup.
It does sound awesome. Strings made for bowed instruments are on a different level than what most of us are used to. I like to think there's some wild-ass voodoo metallurgical sh*t going on, but who knows.
I attempted to learn the strange bass called a "violincello" and I eventually developed some rather violent feelings toward the bow. There's a reason violinists start at age 1 or something, with little 1/32 size violins; bowing is insanely difficult. Forget mastering accurate intonation on a fretless board- that's the easy part. Using a bow to make sounds that don't recall the bloodcurdling mating shriek of rutting she-demons is an art that allows no shortcuts to proficiency. Hats off to any who master it.
LoL
Hmm... I can attest to that, Although I mainly like to play behs, I also own a cello which I like to play the day after my neighbours have kept me up the night before. I should also add, I use the term 'play' very loosely. Although I'm a pretty good bass player, I'm totally useless on the cello. Using a bow is like trying to pick up marbles with chopsticks.
I started the violin aged 5. Why anybody would give that instrument to a child I will never know. I gave up aged 13, having never successfully made a noise that didn’t sound like someone torturing an animal.
bernadette is probably one of the best motown bass riffs i cant lie
In 2002, I custom ordered by Warwick Custom Shop Corvette Proline short scale fretless specifically to tune it in either ADGC or CGDA (in fifths, cello tuning). When I first got it, I would use the top four strings of a 6-string set of flatwounds, but then I finally got to trying it with the cello tuning. I bought a custom gauge set of D'Addario Chromes guitar strings (not the bass versions), with the lightest wound string, .020, but it just would not withstand tuning up to A without breaking. So, I bought a set of D'Addario Prelude (student grade) 4/4 medium tension cello strings (which are compatible with magnetic pickups, and they are solid steel cores, and they have been on ever since, though I am thinking lately of going back to fourths tuning. D'Addario does make a set of Helicore (professional grade) cello strings for use with bass guitar E Standard tuning, as well, with stranded steel cores.
Fifths (CGDA) tuning is why I want an electric U-Bass (with roundwound or tapewound strings). The neck would be short enough to get around easily despite the intervals. Unfortunately, they don't make string sets conducive to doing this.
macca: "long shiny ones".
every other bassist: "what he said".
It sounds like a Hofner violin bass with the tone rolled right off.
You can get that sound on just about any electric bass. The key is flat wound strings.
That Tool figure sounded great.
The Labella Low Tension Flats on my non-reverse Thunderbird get a very similar response, for those who want to try something similar I do recommend a Thunderbird (at least the pickups) with the traditional 3 point bridge for this. The bridge and strings together choke the sustain just enough to thump without going with foam or other tricks. An EB0 or EB3 or SG bass would rock here too.
Man! You've got that tone... 1:55 very similar to BB Dickerson on Black Man's Burdon, Nuts, Seeds-and Life. One of my favorite electric bass moments ever!
The sound of those strings is epic man! Good job!!
That BEHS sounds incredible , cool idea .❤
I’m impressed the bow actually worked! Very cool
I once bowed a bass guitar with regular roundwounds. It works, you just dont have the fingerboard radius to play the middle strings.
Of course it worked, a bow works on really any stringed instrument
That’s properly awesome. Can’t see me doing it any time soon, but definitely a cool super flatwound sound.
you´re like a bassplayer´s bass player hahahaha freaking love your videos man!!!!!1
I'd be interested in hearing those strings on a Rickenbacker, probably the best vintage bass tone
This’s noice! Now, you should try to put roundwound strings on the double-behs and go at it with the bow and overdrive crancked up 🤷🏼♂️🙈
that final question provided the ultimate solution for upright strings on electric bass, tho.
That sounds fantastic!
That's a fantastic tone !
The tool bass line sounded perfect 👌
Didn't watch the video, but read the title and thought: "Did he not know that flatwounds exist for electric bass?"
Thought the same thing.
It sounds like the Hofner bass with flatwounds on it.
Sounded really cool, cheers Danny!
Funky Disco-Funktionalität, hun! So deep and dark I love it so much. Gonna try it with my Rickenbacker 4003w someday.
I love that tone
This is the most perfect bass guitar tone ever 🥰 Must do!
Nice tone, and great playing!
imagine a fretless with this
Now compare it with flatwounds!
Love Your vids Danny.
I’ve only just come across them and I think there great.
Thank You
I'm always looking for serious bass videos but fun videos are cool too thanks for the cool content
Really enjoyed how that ended up sounding!
That bow flashed Kate Bush through my brain. Under Ice from Hounds of Love.
Sounds like my old hofner with flats
Man I think you just started something, I like it
that 1st riff reminds me of a lot of 70s cop shows like Starsky & Hutch, or Kojack. :D
I wonder how much strain they put on the neck.
I would think less than normal electric bass strings
Loving videos Danny, I’d love to see some slap licks on the chowny SWB1 or some basic grooves. I’ve got one of the last Indian made SWB1’s from Stephen and it plays beautifully and I find it great for “trying to learn slap” some basic slap grooves or series would be great. Something to get started with style. Keep groovin my fellow Yorkshire man 🤘😎🤘
Sounds amazing!!
That’s incredibly cool!
the bow sounded pretty good!
That sounds fuckin awesome could you imagine doing a metal track with those? EPIIIIICCC!!!!!
The bow sounded good
Sounds really cool! Any idea what kind of upright strings they are? If you don't know the Brand/Model, can you tell the composition? Are they gut? Are they steel wrapped or synthetic wrapped? Is the core steel or synthetic?
they have to have steel somewhere for the electromagnetic pickups to work.
@@4chanbannedband570They have to have metal in them, but it doesn't have to be steel.
@@johnm2012 magnetic pickups would require iron (steel) to work. Iron (the primary component of steel) is the only magnetic metal, as far as I know).
@@jimcady9309 I'm afraid you're wrong on both counts. Firstly, magnetic pickups will work with any strings that conduct electricity. That means any metal or any of a number of non-metallic materials that happen to conduct electricity. A conductor vibrating within a magnetic field has a varying electric current induced into it. That current has a small varying magnetic field associated with it which is detected as a disturbance to the main magnetic field by the coil of wire in the pickup. Secondly, there are many magnetic materials other than iron. Cobalt and nickel are two examples. So, to reiterate my point, the main requirement of a string to be used with a magnetic pickup is that it conduct electricity. With that requirement in mind any material with that property can be chosen for the purpose.
amazing - brilliant !
I’m glad someone let him cook on this one is a very interesting tone
DANGEROUSLY funky
I hope i remember this for when I buy an electric bass
kallium can and probably would make round wound strings that would fit the double bass
they should make those strings but for electric bass length
Basically just flatwounds
They do...they're called flat wound strings.
Standard pickups rely on the strings having good magnetic permeability, which is to say, the ability to become magnetized in the presence of a magnetic field. Not only do different metals have very different values, even different steels have very different values. Upright bass strings have a wide variety of constructions, and they will each perform very differently for magnetic pickups. This isn't as simple as "use upright bass strings". You need to know exactly the construction of those strings.
I'm rebuilding this 70s Japanese Les Paul copy BEHS..... I might try this.
Dude, your feel is great!
when he pulled out the bow i thought i was going to hear "hello mr krinkle,, how are u today"
Great sound love it!
My 1971 Pre sounds pretty gnarly/Jamerson-like....buuuuuuuuut, this is just FILTHY awesome (#1) - THIS IS GOLD
Gets pretty trippy afterwards...very interesting though
Cheers
Fantastic videos all around I don’t play any instruments but I feel like I need t play BEHS after finding your channel
Acoustic bass strings have a much higher internal damping and also less magnetic content. So they're dark and thumpy and they're under-driving your pickups. They sound cool, but I think as a performer being limited to "dark, dry, thumpy" would cause some annoyance.
Great idea. I collect affordable basses to try things like this on.
It sounds brilliant, what a bass.
Haha, good video! Bow sounded menacing.
I'm not a fan of that muted AM radio sounding bass. But I love your videos!
Upright strings never break
Dang. I really like the way it sounds.
Much easier and cheaper to just buy nylon tape wounds that are meant for electric bass guitar. Often overlooked but quite a few companies make these including Labella, D'Addario, Rotosound, Fender, Pyramid, and GHS.
Give this man his own Jello bow!
Really interesting idea. How do they compare to a regular set of flats? Great video
I was wondering the exact same thing
I'm honestly not hearing anything different than regular flats like a Fender set. Maybe a little muting but no different from foam or palm muting. If he hadn't told it and I just heard it I wouldn't notice.
Literally 0 difference, if the speaker is changed out, it will make a difference in tone
With no comparison this video is completely pointless
Danny, the way you say BOUWH (BOW) is almost as cool as the way you say BEHS!!!
Playing behs with a bow is a cool idea. Keep at it you may create a new unique sound.
So sick!
Now that's an awesome "BEHS" sound
That yellow bass looks tasty
Bruh when I heard the dark bass my soul just left my body
Sounds so vintage.
Great sound!
Can be 'most distinctive', but can't be 'most unique'. Kick me. All best.'
this actually sounded great
Pretty sick man innit
Nice the first demo reminds me of Jeff Ament from Pearl Jam’s tone
AMAZING
Danny is one wild and crazy Czechoslovakian behser!
Actually you are on to something here. It sounds pretty good. Very inventive.
Amazing.
Sounds amazing
Awesome as always ❤❤❤❤
I have left my strings curled up like that for years now lol
THE GUNK KEEPS THE FUNK🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
nice with the bow
Excellent,well played
Shit, dude!! I was just thinking of this! I bought some synthetic cat gut strings for my upright and still have the. Original strings. I was just thinking what it was be like to have upright strings on my electric. Awesome vids man!!!
The felt string wrappings are sitting on the bridge, so they are acting like a permanent mute.
That thing sounds awesome, thats exactly the type of sound I would love to obtain. Sadly I don't want to have to go to the extreme of buying a set of upright strings.
Flatwound strings sound incredibly close to that when you roll on the tone control. A set of flatwound a should be under $50 US. First I would try rolling the tone control on all the way with a piece of foam at the bridge. Flatwounds don’t have the same amount of string noise that Roundwounds have. Look for some UA-cams of Flatwound vs Roundwound strings to see what I mean. Good luck!
@@CaseyJust upright bass strings ARE flatwound, after all. Getting a set of flats made for electric bass (easily found) should be an easier way to go.
it's different, sure. Reminds me of the u-behs sound. Compact.
Nice light saber sounds. And keep playing with that bow, see if you can start a fire.
try it with some overdrive or distortion, I bet that would sound sick
Yeah, sounds NICE!
Woah it actually does sound amazing lol
Yeah, I tried using a bow on my fretless for a couple shows. The guitar player and I both had violin bows and we tried to do the keyboard intro to Mr. Crowley. It was not good.