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02-24-2010, 10:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Carmel, IN | | | Any suggestions?
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I'm looking for a lower tension string. I'd like to avoid anything overly brite. Prefer a roundwound. So basically, low tension, year old ernie ball hybrid slinkys but fresh out of the package. Any ideas? |
02-24-2010, 11:10 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Durham NC | | | The lightest gauge compression wound string you can find. GHS and SIT make them.
That or TI Jazz Flats, which are flats, but have a growly character that flats usually don't have. |
02-24-2010, 12:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: La Salle, IL USA | | | I 2nd trying TI Jazz Flats. |
02-24-2010, 12:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Carmel, IN | | | Thanks, I'll give those a shot.
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02-24-2010, 12:34 PM
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02-24-2010, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Elphisto  I'm looking for a lower tension string. I'd like to avoid anything overly brite. Prefer a roundwound. So basically, low tension, year old ernie ball hybrid slinkys but fresh out of the package. Any ideas? | DR Sunbeams !!!
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02-24-2010, 08:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: U.S.A. | | | TI Jazz Rounds (not flats) or DR Sunbeams would be my picks. The TI Jazz Rounds are my favorite strings.
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02-24-2010, 10:51 PM
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02-25-2010, 08:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Carmel, IN | | | I haven't swapped around enough to have a real favorite yet. Figured mentioning a few characteristics I was looking for would give me a good starting point. |
02-25-2010, 08:48 AM
|  | Bass lines like a big, funky giant | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Southern MN | | | Low tension + roundwound + not overly bright = DR Sunbeams
You will love them, guaranteed! |
02-25-2010, 09:18 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Chicago | | | +1 on the TI Jazz Flats. Super low tension, rich warm sound with good mids, last forever. |
02-25-2010, 11:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Durham NC | | | Sunbeams are a fine choice stiffness-wise, but I find them to be on the bright side for rounds. Not warm at all. They do mellow, but still are pretty "alive" for rounds. |
02-25-2010, 11:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Durham NC | | | Have you tried the lightest gauge of Slinkies? 40-95?
They will tame down quickly and give you what you want. |
02-25-2010, 11:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Carmel, IN | | | I hate new slinkies. I do like them after 5 or 6 months of dead skin gets packed into the winds.... |
02-25-2010, 01:11 PM
|  | Serve the song... | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cincinnati/Dayton, Ohio | | | Maybe try a set of Ernie Ball Flats.
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