Do Pirastro's Evah Pirazzi and Perpetual Bass Strings Sound Similar? 

Tes vidéos sont toujours instructives et sont un plaisir à regarder. Et te voir jouer est toujours aussi agréable. Merci 😊

you are doing a great service to us upright players! I have tried Spiro medium E and A with Obligato D and G, Evah Pirazzi which E and A with Olive gut D and G. I have Evah Pirazzi weich E, A , D, with a eudoxa gut G.

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Wow !! congratulation very nice.

I try to avoid mixing string sets, but this sounds pretty nice.

Get them coming.....thanks

"Seems like they cut into your flesh" I watched that part couple of times. Soooo funy the way you saying it. Luv ya mate.

They are a great sounding combo

Sound very nice,round and warm

Wow cooL

Thanks Harvé. It’s definitely a close call. Actually I didn’t keep it straight in my head whether E/A are EP or D/G but to me E/A have an air or a hint of high frequency presence and D/G sound rounder with a bit denser core and doesn’t have that presence. I think it is a good approach to have thicker D/G than usual since often those are the strings that people find too low tension or too flexing or thin sounding or too thin on the left hand fingers and also within the same set end up having too much presence. It’s funny that the whole geometry and design lead up to have this systematic issue as if D & G belong to a different instrument or sort of split character! I found many people love the tone and playability of E/A and they are not quite happy with their D/G or vice versa. Even I feel the same on metal string guitar. I can’t stand the piercing B/E when I try yo set my amp / pedals to have some presence on E/A/D. The only setup that sounds uniform for me is classical guitar.

In my experience always work brighter strings for the E and A and darker strings on the D and G That makes sense that the Evahs G and D sound great with the perpetuals E and A

Bravo. Tolle Videos. Ich hätte mir gewünscht, dass man die Saiten auch von eine größere Entfernung hört. Ich finde es macht einen Unterschied wie es von außen klingt. Also wie die Zuhörer es hören und wie es zb in einem mix mit anderen Instrumenten klingt. Ich wäre dir sehr dankbar, wenn du es in deine zukünftige Videos einbeziehen könntest :) Tolle Videos!!!! Nochmal Bravo und danke schön

Blindfold test with a full set on the same bass would have been exciting. Sounds like a pretty good match, find the evas a notch duller (not in a bad way).

Great stuff as always, nice playing too! I have solo Evah on my top 2 strings, tuned to G and D, going to see how Perpetual on the A and E will sound with them. Maybe too much different tension, we’ll see. Have you ever tried so-called “bumped” sets? Where you use an A string for your low E, a D string for your low A, etc? Can make for a fun set with plain gut G/D (not bumped) on top, then something like Mittel Evah or Stark Spiro D/A tuned to A/E on bottom… wonder if Perpetuals would work “bumped” like that….

Nice. So metal on bottom and synthetic on top is to synthetic on bottom gut on top. The way the blend I mean. Make sense? Anyway I do enjoy the videos Herve!

Thank you very much for your videos. Could you please tell us, what piezo sistem you use atached to the bridge in your new instrument? It seems that you decided not to go the tonedexter way... thanks a lot in advance !

My biggest issue with Eva's is that they really don't sing well in the upper registers, and especially so with Arco. I was using Perpetual Solos for a while, but the strings went quite dull in a very short amount of time. I am hoping the standard gauge is better in this. Staying clearer longer. Thanking you for your bass service!

Do you think this set would work with evah pirazzi weich on D and G? Or would the tension be very diferent? When i see this vídeo i found what i want. Cause i like the sound of G and D of Evah Pirazzi, but i don't like to much the sound of A and E.

It's really balanced. How high is the action? G,D,A,E.

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