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02-04-2011, 06:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: canada | | | Flats that are "off the grid"?
I have tried every flatwound by a major manufacturer, what im looking for is some flats made by smaller or unknown companies and what were your experiences with them. |
02-04-2011, 09:05 PM
| | | | Well, what sound are you looking for? Jamerson/McCartney thump or a more growly sound?
Problem is, bass strings are a bit like VCRs; many variations made by only a few manufacturers. That said, there can be some significant variations in them, but maybe not so much as in rounds.
Have you really tried at least ten distinctly different sets of flats, including the nylon tapes?
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02-05-2011, 06:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: D'Shaw | | | What have you already tried?
Without knowing that anything we post is just a SWAG.
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02-05-2011, 06:25 AM
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02-05-2011, 07:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jongor  Curt Mangan | Do you have experience with these?
What are they like? |
02-05-2011, 07:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maine | | | Played them on a friends bass; medium tension, smooth feel, punchy.
Never used them personally.
Another one to consider are the Ken Smith Slick Rounds, I've used these; not completely smooth but feel nice, nice round, punchy tone too, medium tension.
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02-05-2011, 07:53 AM
|  | Four on the Floor | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Seattle Area | | | Not sure if you've tried them, but I've landed on Pyramid flats for my fretless. The thumpiest, most "double bass" sounding flats on the planet. Makes sense, they also make double bass strings. Very $$ but they last literally forever.
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02-05-2011, 08:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: canada | | | Have you really tried at least ten distinctly different sets of flats, including the nylon tapes?[/quote]
Yes I have, I bought a set of 5yr old chromes off a fellow tber and they are incredible. But how often can you find used old flats? Been going through lots of sets and am just looking to go outside the box for a more obscure brand trying to find some hidden gold. |
02-05-2011, 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by pringlw Not sure if you've tried them, but I've landed on Pyramid flats for my fretless. The thumpiest, most "double bass" sounding flats on the planet. Makes sense, they also make double bass strings. Very $$ but they last literally forever. | strings literally lasting forever is not possible.
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02-05-2011, 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by panama strings literally lasting forever is not possible. | Well, ok perhaps not literally forever, but 5 to 8 years or more is very practical. They just get thumpier and thumpier.
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02-05-2011, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by panama strings literally lasting forever is not possible. | Anything's possible on the internet where you don't have to back up statements with facts. ;-)
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02-05-2011, 06:41 PM
| | | | Status: Thin sounding and floppy. Picato: Very smooth sounding, may come off as dull. Optima: Wonderful! |
02-07-2011, 10:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: queens | | | vote for pyramids
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02-07-2011, 11:11 PM
| | | | Have you tried Thomastik? Like was mentioned, without knowing what you have tried makes this thread pointless. |
02-08-2011, 02:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: canada | | | [quote=spiltcoil;10412441]Have you tried Thomastik? Like was mentioned, without knowing what you have tried makes this thread pointless.[/QUOTE
If they made a thicker guage string set, i would give them another try. |
02-08-2011, 06:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Pioneer CA | | | Sound City Flatwounds.......UGH Made in England. Don't waste your time. I use Chromes on 5 of my basses.
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02-09-2011, 01:53 AM
| | Reggaefied User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | | Never tried them myself, but I've heard good things about Galli and Curt Magnan flats. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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