can floppy strings affect tone?

[Awkwardturtle!]

I'm using 100 Guage flatwounds and dropping C their a little floppy but sound good.

but in general can floppy strings have affect on tone?

[KayXero]

? lol really man?

[KayXero]

And yes Of course floppy effects tone. Less tension = less vibration = less transfer of said vibration to the pickups

[Awkwardturtle!]

Um ok then

[knuckle_head]

In general a loose/floppy string will move more and can over power a tighter string in an unbalanced set. A looser string tends to present more fundamental and fewer upper transients. A loose string also suffers from pitch dive more readily.

A tighter string has a more robust tonal content - generally they sound brighter - and can be set up to be a bit closer to your fret board than looser strings.

[Awkwardturtle!]

Originally Posted by knuckle_head

In general a loose/floppy string will move more and can over power a tighter string in an unbalanced set. A looser string tends to present more fundamental and fewer upper transients. A loose string also suffers from pitch dive more readily.

A tighter string has a more robust tonal content - generally they sound brighter - and can be set up to be a bit closer to your fret board than looser strings.

Ah thanks

[mrkreuzschlitz]

I use about the same size string in Drop C, and if you don't tune your bass up to standard tuning then you should be fine in most cases. When you do tune up, your stretch your string out a tad, thus becoming floppy.