About a 2 months ago, I changed strings on 10 of my basses. I took off GHS flats and set all ten basses up with Rotosounds 66s. When I am not working, I play about 4 hours a day. It didn't take much to used to the feel. What I didn't like was the extra string noise. Tonaly it was a little hard to fine tune my rig, but I eventually dialed in a sound that worked for me and those who play along side of me.
On Sunday, I went back to flats on all of my basses. It took the whole day to set them all back up, but when I was done, each bass seemed to feel better and sound bigger than with the Rotosounds.
Has anyone else had this experience when returning to flats?
I've gone through similar experiences SEVERAL times, depending on whether I'm rockin', funkin' or jazzin'. I finally settled on a compromise; keep one set of TI flats and one set of TI super alloy rounds on each of my P style and J style basses. On my A/E fretless flats only of course and also flats on my Dark Starred semi-hollow body. Then the only dilemna is which (2) to take to a gig.
I went from DR Hi-beams to TI jazz flats, then back to DR Sunbeams and then back to TI jazz flats.
I like flats a lot more, but its always nice to play a show or two with some really bright rounds and some heavy overdrive just to remember what it sounds like.......always putting the flats back on afterwards though.
