choice of Flatwound on Jaco Pastorius Fretless

[alexformetal]

Hello all,

Please help me to find the best of Flatwound:
I bought a Fender Jaco Pastorius Fretless for its very warm sounding, vintage style. I am very satistied with the instrument itself and its soudning. But I found the original Fender Strings (Flatwound 9050M 55 70 90 105) too hard (non flexible at all !). Also I was looking for brighter tone to let harmonics very present. Then I have tried Ernie Ball Group II (50 70 85 105) which are extra flexible compared to the Fenders. But I lost a lot the mellow sound of the Fender. I really need the BIG sound of the E and A strings with a great flexibility of all strings, with very clear tone for the highest notes.
What would you suggest to me as Flatwound ?
Labella 760FM ?
Chromes ?
GHS Brite ?
GHS Precision ?Rotosound ?
Sadowsky ?
Others ???...

Thank you So much for your help.

Alexis

[vcs700s]

Chromes.

[fearceol]

You might like to consider TI (Thomastik/Infeld) jazz flats. They have very low tension, and as flats go are on the bright side. At the same time they have a warm and mellow sound. Do a search here and you'll find lots of good comments about them.

[king_biscuit]

La Bella deep talkin flats. You have a choice of different gauges, and they have a nice middy snarl that other flats don't have. Perfect for fretless.

[rockstar744]

+1 for chromes. I love the feel, not too loose, not too tight. they sound rather bright for flats, too. Soon, all three of my basses will have them, they're my favorite string!

[j.a.e.r.i.p]

rotosounds, i love'm

[alexformetal]

Hello,

...so I put the La Bella's on the bass, I am very satisfied with them (thank you King Biscuit) . Up to now it's my best choice. As I like medium gauge and not light , I took 049-109 (760FM). As they are very flexible strings, the medium set is very easy to play.

My conclusion:

I like the quality because they are very flexible so you can easily take a medium set.
La bella G+D strings have EXACTLY the same caracteristics as Ernie Ball Group II G+D (I really didn't feel any difference). But La Bella A+E have MUCH DEEPER sound than the Ernie Ball E+A. Really pleasant for their VERY DEEP sounding. Sometimes I feel like playing an acoustic bass when I play the E or the A string ! They are very good strings, I really like this choice on my fretless.

But I want to try Chromes next time, I am so curious by how they are.


Thanks to everybody for their recomandations.


Alexis