Best strings for slap/pop metal

MetalViking13 · #1 07-19-2010, 04:20 PM

I play in standard c# tuning and right now I have a set of dr .105 red devils. they sound good when I'm just shreddin but the second I try to incorporate a slap or even a pop it sounds kinda dead. I used to have some .110 lo-riders on my last bass and they sounded amazing in c# tuning when i slapped or popped.

I saw though that there are the new DDT's that are .115 and are wrapped pretty much the same way as a lo-rider(around a hexagonal core). pretty much I'm just wondering would it be better to go back to lo-riders or try out the DDT's

Double Agent · #2 07-19-2010, 07:23 PM

I have no experience with the DDTs, but it is hard to imagine they are that much better than the Lo-Riders. If it ain't broke.....

omnimutant · #3 07-19-2010, 07:36 PM

Based on your Tuning, according to what I've recently learned from the Circle K string guy (knucklehead?) here on the TB forums, your gonna want a thicker gauge set anyway. .118-.130 is the proper range of the Low string for C#. He makes sets specifically for Down tuned Basses. Hope that helps a little.

MetalViking13 · #4 07-19-2010, 08:53 PM

yea even for being only a .110 gauge i remember them sounding pretty good on my last jackson. it might help they were designed specifically with slap and tap techniques in mind. It seems to me that the DDT's are the exact same construction as the lo-riders but they just have thicker gauge's to them. I just don't want to go get the lo-riders and come to find out the strings are a little too loose still, and I don't want to get the DDT's and find out they're not good for my style.