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10-31-2005, 11:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: hudson valley | | | 6 string fretless flatwounds...light guage
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Steve Lawson gets a wonderful tone from his modulus quantum 6 using what appears to be a relatively light guage set of flatwounds by a UK company called Elites. Unfortunately his set appears to be custom made for him.
So what's a tone-fiend to do?
Any suggestions as to who does a light guage flat set? or where I can build one from single strings?
rich |
10-31-2005, 11:22 PM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | | D'addario Half Rounds might work for you.... I found them to be a very musical, very expressive, somewhat loose string on my fretless 6. |
11-01-2005, 06:22 AM
|  | Sam was a basket case!!!! | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Corrupticut | | | Thomastik Jazz Flats? JF346 is a long scale 6 string set.
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11-01-2005, 06:27 AM
| | | | try Ken Smith's slick's...you can build a set too. |
11-01-2005, 11:00 AM
|  | Extravangant Bass-ist! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: London UK | | Email the Bass Centre via their website - www.basscentre.com - and see if they can sort you out with a set. They are meant to be making them available as a signature set before too long...
Glad you're digging the sounds!
Steve www.stevelawson.net www.recyclecollective.com |
11-01-2005, 11:10 AM
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Endorsing Artist: FBB Bass Works/Barker Bass | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Monroe Twp, NJ | | Gotta 2nd James Hart on the half-rounds ..... just put them onto a fretless 4 rehab I recently completed and they are significantly lighter than any flatwound I've used. Not expensive, well worth a try .......  |
11-01-2005, 04:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Maple Valley, WA | | | +more to half rounds. You can still pull a distinct brightness out of it, but it never interferes with the smoothness of it, which is almost indistinguishable from certain flatwounds' smoothness.
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11-02-2005, 02:54 PM
| | | | the thing i like about th Ken Smith slicks is that they start out life as rounds and the nare literally shaved to slickness. So you get the flat feel and tone but with much of the brightness of a round. |
11-03-2005, 09:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: hudson valley | | | thanks everyone....I'm looking forward to trying out a couple of different sets. I'll post results.
rich |
11-03-2005, 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by DZ the thing i like about th Ken Smith slicks is that they start out life as rounds and the nare literally shaved to slickness. So you get the flat feel and tone but with much of the brightness of a round. | just like all groundwounds. SIT Powerflats, D'Addario Half-Rounds, Dean Markley Ground Wounds, etc. |
11-04-2005, 10:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Maple Valley, WA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by James Hart just like all groundwounds. SIT Powerflats, D'Addario Half-Rounds, Dean Markley Ground Wounds, etc. | +1
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11-04-2005, 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by James Hart just like all groundwounds. SIT Powerflats, D'Addario Half-Rounds, Dean Markley Ground Wounds, etc. | learn something new everyday. so do groundwounds have the flatwound feel ? |
11-04-2005, 11:19 AM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | Yup  |
11-09-2005, 10:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: hudson valley | | | Steve Lawson "signature set" Elite Flatwounds....
Thanks Steve...emailed bass centre and they're putting together a set for me. |
11-14-2005, 04:45 PM
| | | TI Jazz Rounds.
I think there B-string is 118.
C-string is maybe 29.
Smooth feel.
I dig the TI-jazz Flats.
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