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10-06-2009, 12:17 PM
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Is there any real reason why flats are almost double the price of their round wound counter parts? Just went up the store to buy some D'addario Chromes for my p bass,and I haven't bought flats in about 3 years,only to find out they were 46 bucks a pack,compared to the D'addario XL nickels I usually buy which are about 25 bucks. Is there more material,or just lower S&D?
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10-06-2009, 12:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | You need to shop online more.
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10-06-2009, 12:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tifton,Georgia | | | Yea I guess so, I don't like waiting a week for strings though. Maybe it's just the shop here.
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Originally Posted by stflbn Two brothers... an octave apart. One muscular and strong who all the women love, the other thin and whimpy that makes screeching noises when ignored. | |
10-06-2009, 12:26 PM
| | Dry and Heavy | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | | I think it's a few things- more costly to make, bigger mark-up my the manufacturers to make up for the fact they won't be often replaced, and bigger mark-up by retailers because they are more or less a specialty item and hang around on the shelves longer. |
10-06-2009, 12:26 PM
| | | | I have a set of chromes I had on my fender for about 3-4 days, I did not like em want em? :-) |
10-06-2009, 12:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tifton,Georgia | | | Yea I figured it was probably one of the two or both. Sucks, I guess I will have to start buying them online,I think the longer I play the more I get tired of the insanely bright tone of rounds,more so on my p bass,but I hate the sound of dead round wounds too.
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Originally Posted by stflbn Two brothers... an octave apart. One muscular and strong who all the women love, the other thin and whimpy that makes screeching noises when ignored. |
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10-06-2009, 12:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tifton,Georgia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by chjohnst I have a set of chromes I had on my fender for about 3-4 days, I did not like em want em? :-) | Sure!
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Originally Posted by stflbn Two brothers... an octave apart. One muscular and strong who all the women love, the other thin and whimpy that makes screeching noises when ignored. | |
10-06-2009, 12:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Calabash, NC | | | What's funny is that I thought about posting this same exact question yesterday but for some reason didn't. I've noticed the same thing, in that flatwounds usually cost more than roundwounds. I tend to get my strings online which you can almost always get a set of flatwounds (at least for 4 bangers) for way cheaper than $46.... I usually get from Juststrings.com and if I remember right their Chromes usually run about $28.
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10-06-2009, 12:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tifton,Georgia | | | Yea I was looking at MF and they got em for 29.99. Like I said I just hate waiting so long just to get a set of strings. I guess thats the price of convenience
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Originally Posted by stflbn Two brothers... an octave apart. One muscular and strong who all the women love, the other thin and whimpy that makes screeching noises when ignored. | |
10-06-2009, 12:46 PM
| | | | I got mine from MF, they bang you on shipping costs though. |
10-06-2009, 12:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Davison,Michigan | | | I paid about $45 or a set of DR Flats, and that was with a coupon.
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10-06-2009, 12:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tifton,Georgia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ThisisCraigP I paid about $45 or a set of DR Flats, and that was with a coupon. | Thats crazy. I wanted a set of flats,but not that bad.
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10-06-2009, 01:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Nashville | | | juststrings.com
And flats last for a long long long time if you allow them to. So the investment is a moot point based on years of service vs weeks or months of use on roundwounds. |
10-06-2009, 01:20 PM
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Supply & demand.
But, flats will last much longer than roundwounds.
So, figure that into cost.
I've had a set of TI flats on my P-bass for three years.
And the still sound great. |
10-06-2009, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Mojo-Man
Supply & demand.
But, flats will last much longer than roundwounds.
So, figure that into cost.
I've had a set of TI flats on my P-bass for three years.
And the still sound great. | This. Another benefit of flats is that you can take them off and leave them off for a while when you try different strings. If you find that you liked the previous strings better, just put them back on. No worries about them going dead or anything! |
10-06-2009, 01:39 PM
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sounding amazing.
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10-06-2009, 01:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tifton,Georgia | | | Well I definitely never considered the life of the strings. Either way I didn't have the money to dish out double for strings this time around. Maybe in a couple weeks I'll grab some online.
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10-06-2009, 02:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: D'Shaw | | Best thing they ever did for string sales was convince players to use a roundwound "piano tone" that fades relatively quickly requiring frequent string replacement. 
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10-06-2009, 02:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan | | | Wow. That shop is robbing you! On Musician's Friend, D'Addario Chromes 4-String set is $30! Their rounds are ~$20! Shop online my friend. But yes, flats are more expensive. They last longer, so the company wants to make profit where they can.
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10-06-2009, 02:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tifton,Georgia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassist4dalord Wow. That shop is robbing you! On Musician's Friend, D'Addario Chromes 4-String set is $30! Their rounds are ~$20! Shop online my friend. But yes, flats are more expensive. They last longer, so the company wants to make profit where they can. | Yea that shop is crap,this is a place that sells more offbrand and 6 string bass strings than 4 string sets. but it's all I got around here. Closest big place is a GC in tallahassee which is like 2 and half hours away from here.
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