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www.corsidiliuteria.it – Using a Frudua GFJ bass guitar, Luthier Galeazzo Frudua explains how to obtain the best tone from your bass guitar B string and an even response on the whole bass fretboard. Part 2. GFJ BASS FRUDUA DIRECT DEAL Photos at www.fruduadirectdeal.com WHICH STRINGS TO USE: Enrie Ball never let me down but consider that I am talking about Italy market. Due the un constant quality I have found here in major brands I came to the conclusion that most of them are sending their lower quality production runs over here. The situation may be different in your country, for example in USA or UK or even Germany, where I think they sell their first quality and there may be a lower percentage or faulty strings. Also remember that too much of a strings angle over the saddle and beyond (for example on strings through body) damages the various (and very complicate system of) overlapping windings especially of the bigger (low b) strings thus affecting sound and intonation. You can trust me for the words, I have made severe tests. Write if any! GF FRUDUA BASS AMPLIFICATION www.fruduabassamplification.com bass guitar frudua GFJ bass tips how to Strings frudua tapping [...]

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  • GrantSmithBass 11 years ago

    Great Video. Thanks. I like the first tip of string pressure wrapping around itself and to release it from the bridge.. Cheers.

  • poopl00p3r 11 years ago

    I suck at being a musician.. I should work on that before I worry about how I sound. I wasted my time watching this video

  • freerangericky 11 years ago

    He knows his business. One of the few people I have ever heard explain PROPERLY the way a string vibrates. It is slightly more complicated than this explanation, but he makes a complicated point simply.
    The big challenge of 5 string bass, is having a speaker system that will reproduce the fundamental frequency of the B. There are some high end bass reproduction systems that do a terrible job. And some cheap ones that nail it. The best low bucks one rhymes with skeevy.

  • Drblooter99 11 years ago

    Well i never thought of that, unrolling a twisted string! I breen playing 40 years and I never knew

  • N10BASS 11 years ago

    Salve Galeazzo! Volevo solo chiederti come si fa a prevenire l’arrotamento delle corde avendo un bridge normale (non hipshot). Sui gfj non c’e’ nessun problema, dato che si puo’ tirare fuori la corda e semplicemente girarla, ma sui fender l’operazione e’ un po’ piu’ difficile…l’ultima volta che ho cambiato le corde, pensavo di averle girate abbastanza, ma poi, quando le ho tolte mi sono accorto che si erano girate su di esse un paio di volte. Qualche consiglio? Forse un bridge hipshot?Grazie

  • Tenchi874 11 years ago

    Here are a few fucking ideas:

    Set your fucking guitar up CORRECTLY

    Tune your fucking guitar CORRECTLY

    Tweak your fucking amp/modeler CORRECTLY.

    EQ your fucking sound CORRECTLY.

    Learn how to play your fucking guitar CORRECTLY.

    tl;dr fuck off

  • Adriano Andrade 11 years ago

    Great tips dude. Thanks!

  • pdshane 11 years ago

    Mr. Frudua rocks.

  • lionsareus 11 years ago

    Super.

  • 1BassJohn 11 years ago

    Great Video, all the best!

  • 1BassJohn 11 years ago

    Hey Dustin, I hope you don’t mind me providing a perspective! Greetings from Australia.. You make a very good point. Some manufacturers are doing balanced sets, though this dynamic you describe still occurs. Circle K do balanced sets, but this results in their low B, E, A strings being of a massive gauge to compensate. I’ve heard good things, but this just doesn’t sound practical. For the moment keep an eye out for balanced sets. It varies also from bass to bass! All the best, J

  • Andy Bradley 11 years ago

    You can change that by tweaking the set up slightly. I’m not saying that you should, it might be what you want but (this is an idea that’s just come to me so I apologise if its not thought through) it could warp your neck somewhat if the tensions are significantly unbalanced.

  • Andy Bradley 11 years ago

    That can be sorted by changing the bridge saddles. I put flatwounds on a Fender Jazz and the action felt alright but the strings were far too taught for me, and I was told by one of my tutors to lower the saddles and it helped it a lot.

  • TheGlassWalls 11 years ago

    I was refering to the unbalanced string tension relation between string sets. For example, the E string on my bass has a “looser” feel than the G string from that very same set.

  • Andy Bradley 11 years ago

    All I’m saying that the strings are one small part of the equation when it comes to their tension.

  • TheGlassWalls 11 years ago

    I could not find any text relating directly to what I mentioned.

  • TheGlassWalls 11 years ago

    Thanks for trying to help but I think you misunderstood my point :P

  • Andy Bradley 11 years ago

    If you find that your strings feel too tense lower the bridge saddles, but be careful to avoid lowering them too much, else you’ll get fret buzz on the high frets.

  • Khatch1989 11 years ago

    where is part 2 ? 

  • Jason Balang 11 years ago

    watch this with interactive transcript on (button right to flag). guess what he says at 0:50

  • maxxyporky 11 years ago

    i like dhis bass..

  • FruduaTv 11 years ago

    Check out the Frudua Craftpedia related article (just Google it)

  • TheGlassWalls 11 years ago

    Very, very good information! What is your opinion on string tension? I’ve noticed that the thicker strings on bass and guitar have less tension (more floppy) than the thinner strings. I’m aware that a couple string manufacturers are making balanced-tension string sets. Is there a use for the traditional un-balanced sets? Or do you see the strings of the future being balanced? (I suppose a balanced set could have more consistent tones all across the board?)

    Thanks for the vid! – Dustin (USA)

  • Iliketacos091 11 years ago

    Oh god you again.

  • Bumblebot12 11 years ago

    On my new SR405qm, the strings hits the frets too much, how can I fix this so its low sounds come out? & sound like bands such as Crossfade, Stand, 5FDP, etc.

  • AlexiCrazybass 11 years ago

    It’s okay, try to mute string which are not played at the moment. You can mute strings both with your left hand and thumb.

  • GrantSmithBass 11 years ago

    Thank you for some great insight. Many times when you get a BASS SET UP it is done without you being present. This video shows you what is exactly done and what you are paying for. 100 thumbs up for FruduaTV !!

  • jbaranowski1990 11 years ago

    wow ! 3.2 mm for G sting on bass ?! it’s enormous high action ! On most basses you can setup G string from about 1.5 – 2.5 without any buzz/rattle ! 3.2 for E or even B sting is quite high.

  • Zoltán Vona 11 years ago

    I mean: 3.2= 3.2 mm

  • Zoltán Vona 11 years ago

    Hi! He’s italian, so i think that he measures in mm- s.

  • jbaranowski1990 11 years ago

    I know how much mm is in 1 inch but give me this measurements in mm… for example: G string 3 .2 (three point two) but what ? Milimeters ? 64th of inch ? 32Nd of inch ? How much it is ? I don’t understand his units of this measurements

  • freerangericky 11 years ago

    Very useful information.
    I think I have a good setup, but this is a good way to properly re string.

  • rocafella142 11 years ago

    I just did this my b string is still dead as a doorknob :/

  • Zoltán Vona 11 years ago

    1 inch = 25.4 mm, so what is your question, dude?
    Greetings fromHungary!

  • fabibass 11 years ago

    very useful – thanks

  • FruduaTv 11 years ago

    Yes it’s just a matter of playing not casue of the instrument. Your technique must involve that you stop some strings while playing other.

  • Sousanators 11 years ago

    Hey my low B will vibrate if i dont keep my thumb on it which clogs up my sound. I have set my action so there is very little fret buzz and i have set my intonation. Do you know why this is?

  • MrBoater58 11 years ago

    yeah, my bad. stupid mistake

  • Roy Konings 11 years ago

    He’s Italian. U r American?

  • jbaranowski1990 11 years ago

    Please write me all measurements in mm cause i lost in this inches. Please ! I want to setup my bass right now and I want to try your patents Galeazzo ;) greetings from Poland

  • jbaranowski1990 11 years ago

    All measurements are in milimeters or inches ?

  • ji1198 11 years ago

    Good tutorial

  • crazedgunmanvideo 11 years ago

    Good info.

  • Eukatheude 11 years ago

    He’s italian

  • vectron12 11 years ago

    lol
    goje

  • roadworn61 11 years ago

    A Galea’ ma perche’ nun parli italiano? Non ce sto a capi na mazza.

  • MrBoater58 11 years ago

    I love when Russians say “compromise.”

  • c0d3h4x0r 11 years ago

    This information is useless without knowing how the truss rod is set and the nut slots are cut. You need to capo across the first fret (to remove the nut height from the equation) and highest fret (to remove saddle height from the equation) and then measure the distance between the bottom (not top, to remove the string gauge from the equation) of the A string and the top of the 12th fret. For saddle heights, remove capo from the high fret and measure bottom of each string to top of 12th fret.

  • newscrews11 11 years ago

    hmm, nice vid, but most non specialists are going to have feeler gauges in the house or garage. i need the distance from the bottom of the string, not the top.

  • Pinetard 11 years ago

    Hehe G-string