A string installation guide to prevent dead strings on your bass guitar. I do this with all my bass strings, regardless if they are round or hex core, and I never experience premature dead strings any more.
Very interesting! The SR 2000’s Open Core I’ve used on a couple of my basses never went dead, even on cutting the length before making the bend. They changed factories and started having mega problems with dead E and sometimes A strings. I’ve never had it happen with Blue Steels or Roto sounds🙏 When I use Blue Steels on my Music man 5’s, the D string’s wrap stops too soon. I actually have to bend the core an inch back to the string, shove both into the tuner hole, wrap it around half of the tuner…and luckily it holds. Thanks for your video. I noticed even with F Bass exposed core strings some dead strings. Spoke to George F about it. He never mentioned the making a bend cure…
this is all well and good and your presentation was nicely done, but the problem with DR strings isn’t that you need pliers to make a good bend in the string, their problem is that any kind of a bend at the post, the nut, or at the saddle will cause their outer core to slip more so than other brands. it causes bad harmonic overtones and makes intonation impossible. i won’t use them and i won’t guarantee my work when clients insist on using them. their reps know this has been a problem for years and i doubt they will ever fix it. string through body basses are even more of a problem due to the extreme breaking angle. that breaking angle is even worse on flatwound/ribbonwound strings.
you do not need to get a precise length on the string after the bend, it can be longer, just not shorter. this can be eyeballed easily without all these complications. the bend is what stops the core from slipping on its own.
This is good information, and that illustration with the bungee cord was a great visual. Nice video! That being said, I just can't be bothered with all of this and that's why I just use hex core strings. Lol.
all the guys at Sadowsky and PRS and Warwick, im not sure they follow these directions! theyd have to have a whole building dedicated to putting strings on guitars and basses!
I have an acoustic bass guitar that has locking tuners on it and it drives me crazy cuz you have to partially unwind the string in order to fit them in.... String breakage seems to be an issue I really need to just switch them out.... Fortunately I play more baritone guitar than bass anymore
