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09-30-2008, 08:52 PM
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I want to replace the elixer coated roundwounds on my schecter 4 string because its too bright sounding. ( seems to be getting worse) the strings are only 2 months old.
Will I still be able to get a decent slap sound with the flatwounds? Any suggestions? |
09-30-2008, 08:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Sheffield, UK | | | Slap on flats will sound really dull IMHO
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09-30-2008, 10:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Nutley, NJ | | | Sounds awesome. Commodores, Larry Graham, etc...Well, Larry Graham I think was tapewounds, but similar. |
09-30-2008, 10:29 PM
| | Modus vivendi | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | You may consider half-rounds. Worth trying - but not everyone's cup of tea. |
09-30-2008, 10:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Wilmington, NC | | | Check out tunes like Steely Dan's "Aja" and Sly an the Family Stone's "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" to get a good approximation of what it sounds like to slap flats. I've got some Chromes on my SX PJ and they have a pretty good slap tone IMO.
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09-30-2008, 11:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Hungary | | Or check out the audio files here: http://www.lakland.com/audio.htm
You'll find flat string slap recordings for each instruments amongst many others.
IME it's difficult to get a good lap tone on a live gig from flats, but I have to admit, I'm not a Victor Wooten when it's slapping time...
Also check out "Diamonds on the sole of her shoes" from Paul Simon's classic album Graceland. The guy is slapping on flats on a fretless. And it sounds cool. |
10-01-2008, 12:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: United Kingdom | | | Flat is dull no matter what flat you use.
If you want abit of mellow sound but want to keep the brightless when slaping, i would look into half round or nickel round.
I personally would use Low Rider
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10-01-2008, 12:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | As others have said, it won't be the commonly expected "slap sound" of bright rounds twanging (thinking more modern players like Marcus Miller, Flea, Victor Wooten, et. al.) but it's still a good and useful sound. Larry Graham reported (Guitar Player Magazine back in the days when the only infromation available on stuff like this was GP- who were the only guitar mag at the time too) said he used GHS flats for the early stuff, eventually switchng to GHS Boomers. But "Thank You (Falletine Me Be Mice Elf, Again)" is flatwounds. Sounds good too. I was at the Lakland shop a few years ago and played "Thank You..." on a flatwound-strung Joe Osborne through an Acoustic 360. Sounded great to me!
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10-01-2008, 01:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Templeton, MA | | Get d'addario half rounds, just got them over the weekend and so far they are great  |
10-01-2008, 04:54 PM
| | | | I used to love to slap on D'Addario Half-Rounds, before they changed the formula of the strings to pure nickel. I saw T-Bone Wolk slappin on some with Hall & Oats years ago and I was sold on them. The new ones just sound dead,I would rather just slap on brite set of flats like D'Addario Chromes now. |
10-02-2008, 07:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by david fitch I used to love to slap on D'Addario Half-Rounds, before they changed the formula of the strings to pure nickel. | THey WERE nickle. Then they came out with a stainless version, then they dropped the nickle ones. Seems they've again switched things and dropped the stainless ones and gone back to nickles. If you liked the D'Addario stainless Half-Rounds, try a set of GHS Brite Flats.
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10-02-2008, 08:40 AM
| | | | Yes, I know the original D'Addario Half-Rounds invented by Mr. D'Addadrio used to be Nickel and switched Stainless and back to Nickel. That's not my point,my point is they are now Nickel and I don't like them anymore. I have tried the GHS Brite Flats and they are not the same as the old D'Addario Half-Rounds,the are not as smooth and some of strings are ground down more then the others in the same set. |
10-02-2008, 06:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Illinois, Nebraska (college) | | | I have D'Addario Chromes, about a year old now, and I love the slap tone from them. They have that old school thump, which I like much better than the modern metallic slap tone. |
10-04-2008, 03:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Japan | | | Funny thing is......the whole slap thing got started on an upright....when guys would play more for effect........
Saw some guy in New Orleans some years back.....thought he was gonna pull the strings off......sounded like he was playing a combo bass drum and bass.....
I have the Jamerson set on.....slapping them gets me a sore thumb.
The LaBella 760N.....black nylon set is slappable.....I think Sly and the Faily Stone guy was using em.....on A Jazz Bass.....for the funk.
According to Bobby Vega......
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10-04-2008, 03:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Charlotte, NC | | | I have flats on my fretless. Not good for slapping IMO. |
10-25-2008, 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Will On Bass I have flats on my fretless. Not good for slapping IMO. | That might be more due to the fretless than the flats
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10-25-2008, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by rubber_ritchie | Sure sounds like rounds to me.
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01-20-2010, 07:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Wisconsin | | | IMO flats would lack the pop that rounds have. My friend has some flats on his '75 j-bass, and slapping on it is like slapping on dead rounds- there's no character. Really the best alternative is to buy another bass and string it with flats, but if you can't afford one then I guess half-round might do the trick, though I've never tried them for myself. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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