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10-28-2007, 09:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Florida | | | Flats that Slap
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I'm in a bit of a paradox. I love the thump and low fret noise of flats, but I love to slap. I'm looking for flatwounds that can get a nice slap tone. I know I'll be sacrificing a little each way, but that's alright with me. If there is already a thread with this info in it and someone can point me to it, that'd be awesome. I looked through the other threads and couldn't find anything but I won't rule out overlooking something.
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10-28-2007, 09:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Denton, TX | | | I would buy two basses.
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10-28-2007, 10:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota | | | If you have the money, fresh flats sound almost brighter than rounds. Steve Harris always used them for that reason.
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10-28-2007, 10:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: US | | | Try EB group IIIs. They are bright when new, and light enough to get a good feel for slapping. Also, unlike some other flats, Labellas for example, the e string is the same timbre and character as the rest of the set.
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10-28-2007, 10:50 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | I have TI flats on my passive Fender J 5 & I slap it silly. It doesn't have the typical slap sound, but hasn't that been done to death(& beyond)? I also have LaBellas on my fretless 6(also passive)which I also slap in a most silly fashion.  <--- like this
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10-28-2007, 10:50 PM
| | | | I can slap OK with TI flats, but I can't slap the A string for the life of me. I suck at slapping anyways, but I can pop up a storm with the TI's/ |
10-29-2007, 07:11 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Central Illinois | | | Technically, you can slap and pop any string, flat or round or ground or what have you. Its just not going to sound like your typical slap and pop w/out rounds. One of the guys I work with is slap crazy and he uses Fender flats on a jazz, he sounds great and loves it. I have a set of the Dean Markley flats on my pbass and do some slap and pop and it sounds good to my bandmates, audience and myself and those are considered to be some of the deadest strings on the market today. Just pick a set of flats to start with and go from there. |
10-29-2007, 10:07 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Denver, CO | | | on bass player magazine's bass tv site, bobby vega is slapping on a j bass with black tape wound strings... not flats, but similar. it's killin! |
10-29-2007, 10:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Finland | | | i quite like the flatwound slap sound, d'addario chromes (50-105) sound great slapped on my highway one P! |
10-29-2007, 02:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Florida | | | Thanks for all the input guys! The stores here don't stock many flats but I know I can get my hands on some TIs and some Chromes so I guess I'll start with that. More than likely I'll start with the chromes, I still can't get my head around paying $40 for strings.
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11-05-2007, 06:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Florida | | | Update on Slappin some Flats
So I managed to bring myself to buy some TI's, and I'm in love! They're still a little bright, but I can hear what everyone is talking about when they say the TI flats are more midranged than most strings. They slap quite nicely and have a wonderful tone to them, so if anyone else out there is looking for a flatwound string that has a unique but convincing slap tone, I suggest the TI Jazz Flats. Thanks again to everyone that helped out!
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11-05-2007, 06:30 PM
| | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | Right on
I just finished a demo w/this one slap fest in D- the flats sound great! Very kickdrum-esque ghost notes.
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11-05-2007, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by bassteban ...It doesn't have the typical slap sound, but hasn't that been done to death(& beyond)?... | +1 with a bullet!!!
I've found that Rotosound SM77 flats have the great flat finger sound AND convincingly do the slap thing, but the slap tone is thick, not whiny/nasal as with most rounds (i.e. the sound that's been done to death). |
11-05-2007, 09:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: madison, wi | | | +1 on the chromes i have had great luck with them! |
11-18-2007, 08:37 AM
|  | Uber Bass Geek :p | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Middle GA | | Labella deep talkin flats 760FX or FL they're lite, and right, or Sadowsky SS flats light gauge. Those are made by Labella. You can make Labella flats sound any way you want. Try them, here's a link http://imperialguitar.stores.yahoo.net/760fl.html He's got the 760FL's right now, but the price is right. You need to play them for a week or so, and then you'll see exactly what I mean. Killer flats IMHO.
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11-18-2007, 09:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Brooklyn | | | +1 Chromes
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11-18-2007, 08:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Nashville, TN | | | You can slap on flats much better than you might think. And don't forget that back in the late 60's when the grandfather of slap, Larry Graham, was playing with Sly and the Family Stone, most all bass players (including Larry) were still using flats. |
11-19-2007, 02:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: UK. | | Try these.... http://www.status-graphite.com/statu...mes/frame1.htm
Status hotwire flats, excllent value for money, and very, very versatile, from a deep Steve Lawsonesque sound to a Stanley Clarke slap sound.
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