Everyone's favorite strings?

[grunge_freak]

What are your favorite strings for the different basses you own? It's almost time for me to buy some new ones and I'd like to hear what everyone likes. I own a P-bass bye the way.

[amosjones]

Fender Flat Wound .045-.100

[Disco Batman]

Rotosound SwingBass 66's.

[grunge_freak]

Originally Posted by Disco Batman

Rotosound SwingBass 66's.

YES, I was hoping someone would say that I love those

D'Addario half rounds

[tlr1293]

TI Flats - P/J (P slightly rolled of for that growly sound we all love)

DO NOT let people say they are floppy, less tension than normal Flat? Yes. ...but not floppy.

[Din Of Win]

For my P/J and T20 - DR Hi-Beams 50-105

For my ATK300 - Earnie Ball 55-105

[Metal Mitch]

Originally Posted by grunge_freak

What are your favorite strings for the different basses you own? It's almost time for me to buy some new ones and I'd like to hear what everyone likes. I own a P-bass bye the way.

maybe you could try reading the STRINGS forum...

[JamcoPasamerson]

Originally Posted by grunge_freak

What are your favorite strings for the different basses you own?

Old ones, because "The dirt keeps the funk" James Jamerson.

Originally Posted by grunge_freak

It's almost time for me to buy some new ones

Why? Did you break one?

[kho]

Originally Posted by Disco Batman

Rotosound SwingBass 66's.

+1... Recently tried a set of these and liked them so much I put them on the rest of my basses (except the fretless).

[pocketgroove]

Rotosound Swing Bass 66 stainless steel
Dean Markley SR2000s

[lunarpollen]

My fave flats on my Hondo Ric copy are standard LaBella flats.

My Schecter Hellcat VI (short scale bass VI type) is strung with LaBella flats specially made for this instrument and I couldn't be happier.

My fave flats for my short-scale hollowbody are Pyramid Gold. The most comfortable strings ever (in my opinion), they just feel so posh and "art nouveau" for lack of a better term.

My fave rounds for anything are Sadowsky Blue Label stainless steel.

[guroove]

LaBella Deep Talkin' flatwound 760 FS

[ghostjs]

D'Addario Prosteels or Nickel!

[Enersha]

+1 D'Addario XL Nickel Round Wound

[dougjwray]

GHS Boomers (on a '72 Fender Jazz, an '81 G&L L-2000E, an SX P Bass and a Stingray 5)
D'Addario Chromes (on a MIM Jazz and an early-'70s Univox P Bass)
GHS Precision Flatwounds (on a MIM Fender P Bass)
GHS Brite Flats (on a fretless '71 Fender P Bass)

All roundwound DRs are lacking in the midrange dept., to me.

D'Addario nickel roundwounds have a "piano string" tone that I don't like, plus they're too stiff for me.

Rotosound Swing Bass strings (stainless steel roundwounds) go dead too fast, eat frets and are too bright (again, for me).

I tried the LaBella "Jamerson set" once... two months later, I was able to take my arm out of a sling.

[cosmicpimp2]

Favorite: Everly b52's
Second: cold steels
third: Rotos
fourth: DR

[BassLife77]

Rotosound BS66

[ajunea3]

Originally Posted by guroove

LaBella Deep Talkin' flatwound 760 FS

+1,846,496

Especially since it's a P bass

[Tommygunn]

Old fender flats, not dead but before fender changed.
Roto swing 66