DR Lo-Riders on a Rockbass?

[Tubakid09]

How do they stack up to the red label standard warwick strings? Do they have a good slap tone?

[JNW7]

Never really used the warwick strings, but just switched from DR Hi-Beams to Lo-Riders(on both my corvette rockbasses) and they are pretty similer, albeit Lo-Rider's have more tension. Both are great for slap imho as DR's are known for being pretty bright "zingy" strings.
hope this helps
-James

[Tubakid09]

Did you switch to the MH-45 or LLH-40? And how do I choose between the 45-65-85-105/.040, .060, .075, .095 guages (that's what the two string sets above are, respectively)

[JNW7]

The MH-45 are what i use, in the medium(45-105 guage).
As far as which guage to choose, the heavier the guage the more string tension. I've pretty much only played medium guages, just my preference thus far.

[Tubakid09]

what kind of difference in tone will nickel lo riders produce compared to stainless? And when you talk about heavier guages, is this like "medium" and "medium-light" etc? or the actual numbers. And I apologize for this noobness, I've never changed strings before : /

[lokolp]

nickels will be more mellow, and the stainless will be bright.

[Tubakid09]

Awesome, thanks for the help. I'll be picking some up today at GC and seeing if I can't get some other stuff cheap for Presiden't day, too.