Review: Aquila Gold Springs VINTAGE G/D + Aquila Series 22 A/E Double Bass Strings 

The biggest difference between the Vintage and the Synthetic is the price. 🤑 There Will Never Be Another You StringMatrix!!!🔥🙌🏾🏆🤩👍🏾

Seeing this video together with many other videos from this channel made me change from Pirastro Perpetual (with strong D and G) to exactly this set which I played for nearly a year. I really liked these strings and I was very happy with them. They are extremely comfortable to play and I could play for hours without getting tired at all. They sound great, have a great punch and a very big volume and I find them very even all over the fingerboard. My bass "agreed" with them from day 1 on I had the impression and it seemed like they made my whole bass resonate much better and respond faster and they were very receptive to different ways of plugging the strings and they are very dynamic. The E and A strings sound great and very powerful and they blend perfectly with the D and G strings which have this very nice warm and very round "old-school" gut sound. I absolutely loved the feel and sound of the G-string, especially in the low register. The D string sounds great too but gets much thinner in the thump position and loses a lot of sustain there. The D-string is very thick which feels and sounds nice in the low register but unfortunately not so much in the thump position for my taste. E and A settled in after a few days and after 3 weeks D and G settled in and stayed very well in tune. They kept getting better and better in what concerns tuning stability and after a few months I found them even nearly as stable as Thomastik Spirocores. I find them to be of very high quality and my bass sounded better and better over the months but I can't tell if it was the strings getting better, the bass adapting better or me learning to better control them. They have a very strong sound signature and I find them perfect for playing walking and more traditional styles and they are very inspiring and had a big impact on my playing. But for more modern jazz styles I couldn't make them always fit the way I wanted and playing amplified was a big challenge in order to have a clear sound in a less acoustic band setting. This is the reason why I decided to take them of but if I would have a second bass that I would only use to play in more "acoustic" and "traditionnal" settings, I would probably play these strings for many more years. I learned a lot from playing and experimenting with these great strings I have the impression. Thank you very much Hervé for your great work once again and your inspiration.

Thanks as always for doing these videos. You provide a great service to the worldwide bass community! Always on the cutting edge with new product reviews and this one is no exception. I do think the gut and synthetic sound very similar.

Awesome video and playing as always Herve. Really liking the sound of these strings and it's great that they work with the bow as well!

Man you really have some serious chops.

Lieber Hervé, Deine neue CD gefällt mir ausgesprochen gut! Sie läuft gerade rund in meinem Player. Schöner, moderner Jazz mit sehr melodischen Bass-Solos und einem tollen Sound! 🎩👍

how do you imstall the vintage set at the tail piece?Just loop through like some of the Velvet did?

I would like to see what you think about a double bass made out of a kick drum, from a drum set.

I was definitely pleasantly surprised by the arco sound. They're not strings you'd want to use in orchestra obviously, but sounds like one could easily do fine in jazz and other styles with them. Also I know I commented on the other thread, but I've had the Red Springs metal D and G on for almost 3 weeks now. They're nice and do have a pretty good arco tone. The pizz sound is absolutely great. I don't know if I'll stick with them though. The sound is great but something feels like it's missing on my bass. I've been pairing them with Spiro mittel B E and A and am tempted to put the full set back on. Might just keep the Red Springs G on though at least. At some point though, I would love to try the Gold Springs vintage. Especially if I'm at a point where I can keep one bass for arco and another for pizz.

Thank you Herve for all you do! I’m considering throwing a set of these on my old Kay bass- are the vintage worth the extra $, or are the synthetic pretty accurate? I’m not at all worried about arco on this bass….thanks!

I think the strings definitely sound a little different but I don’t think the synthetic ones are inferior and can be used as an appropriate substitute.

Have you ever tried the pirastro pizzicato gut strings? They are made of sheep gut i heard silverwound. Thanks for a reply

I think I like the synthetic D & G better than the vintage. The vintage D sounds maybe a little less focused. Are the Aquila D & G brighter than Olives?

Bei so viel Saitenerfahrung, was sagst du sind deine Lieblingssaiten für Arco, Pizzicato, Hybrid und letzendlich DIE Saite (Saiten für die einsame Insel)

So in the end do they sound like the golden spirals?

my impression is that they don't have enough sustain for pizz. To me they sound unfocused and somewhat dead, but maybe this is the "thump" that gut string players want. Arco sounded pretty good

Bonjour, merci pour vos vidéos, j'ai une question sur le modèle de pirastro jazzicato que vous présentez sur votre site, il s'agit des black nylon ou tungstène ? Merci