I like dead rounds...

[5string5fingers]

So after flip flopping a lot over the past year with strings I've come to realize I love dead rounds,specifically,dead stainless steel rounds,over flats. I'm not sure why..maybe its the funk that gets stored in the grooves of the rounds or what. But there's something else there that I don't find in flats.

Anybody else feel the same way?

[Floyd Eye]

No. You're a nut.


I suppose I would like them better than flats though. I like new Blue Steels.

[5string5fingers]

Originally Posted by Floyd Eye

No. You're a nut.


I suppose I would like them better than flats though. I like new Blue Steels.

I figured

Steels right out of the box drive me nuts with finger noise and clankyness. But I love them about a month later once they've been tamed.

[sprendorius]

I can relate. I've used the same nickel roundwounds on my main bass now for about 4 years. I used to love the sound of new strings but I started to get away from that, going for a bit more organic sound I guess. Though I just ordered a new rig and was thinking maybe putting on a fresh set of strings would be good...

[C.Linton]

Originally Posted by Floyd Eye

No. You're a nut.


I suppose I would like them better than flats though. I like new Blue Steels.

I do too, but I like them just as much when they deaden up a little. (But not more than flats)

[Schlyder]

I love my deader than dead, stretched out, stainless steel roundwounds.

[Floyd Eye]

Originally Posted by C.Linton

I do too, but I like them just as much when they deaden up a little. (But not more than flats)

Yeah, they're pretty good for awhile. I clean them every time I play and I am not anal about changing them or nothing, but I sure don't like them dead. I like them nice and bright.

[5string5fingers]

it seems Ed is a fan as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6XQN0QLzNY

[mdogs]

Ok, then I guess that I will start to list my old dead strings in the classifieds here, I think we are going to need a new category though...

[Jaco D]

Same here, though I'm not sure if we have the same definition of "dead". Definitely, I find the "fresh-out-of-the-pack" zing of stainless steel rounds a bit too bright for my taste. Normally I give a new set of strings like a month or so to age and mellow down to a steady state. After that, I keep the strings till one of them snaps (it could take years) with a denatured alcohol bath thrown in down the road if I remember to do so or if I'm not lazy. The nice thing about liking dead stainless rounds is that my string costs are kept low. This is limited however to just stainless rounds - I wasn't much of a fan of nickel rounds.

[rosanne]

I left a set of Blue Steels on one of my basses for over a year, and really liked the sound. Until the day came that they were *too* dead. I put another set on and now I'm waiting, waiting for them to get to the right point of deadness.

I don't like them better than Chromes though. But I do like them more than the La Bella flats I have.

[elgecko]

I like SS DR Lo Riders between 2 weeks and about 2 years old. At that point, my plucking tips start getting sore and I know it's time to change them out.

[pbass888]

i like dead fender rounds 7350 for reggae.

[pasta4lnch]

I play GHS Boomers on my main bass - they go dead in 10 seconds. love 'em!

[Stilettoprefer]

I like flats more. Dead right out of the package! and my frets dont get destroyed.....

[dwm74]

After going back and forth between Chromes and rounds, I now have both P-basses strung with D'addario Nickels. The 45-100 (EXL 170) set is now three months old, and seem to go a little deader every week (which I like). My other one has 50-105 (EXL 160) on it, but I just got that set for Christmas, and can't wait until they have deadened a bit over the next month or two.

It's funny, but the Chromes I had on it actually seemed brighter than the two-month old rounds, so I switched to rounds on both basses. Half-dead rounds sound better to me than new flats.

[5string5fingers]

Originally Posted by dwm74

After going back and forth between Chromes and rounds, I now have both P-basses strung with D'addario Nickels. The 45-100 (EXL 170) set is now three months old, and seem to go a little deader every week (which I like). My other one has 50-105 (EXL 160) on it, but I just got that set for Christmas, and can't wait until they have deadened a bit over the next month or two.

It's funny, but the Chromes I had on it actually seemed brighter than the two-month old rounds, so I switched to rounds on both basses. Half-dead rounds sound better to me than new flats.

Chromes I've found takes months to warm up. Out of the package they sound like rounds a few days old,very bright,and they keep that brightness for months.

I just got some ghs brite flats,and I hate them. The E string sounds dull and flubby. The rest are nice and punchy,but the E is terrible. They're hardly bright sounding compared to chromes. I love me some chromes,but don't like the price.

The good thing about SS strings are I go through phases of wanting warm and thumpy and bright and punchy. So I get the bright phase out of my system by the time they warm up and get funky.

[VanillaThundah]

i have a pair of strings from my P-bass I just bought (a floor display) and they have more than a few miles on them. I actually like the tone so much that I'm not changing them. Might try and clean the fingerboard portion some, but I love the sound of them for some reason.

[VWbug08']

I like old strings too.

[Caca de Kick]

I love well broken-in stainless rounds; DR highbeams or MTD. I would not say they're dead, but after two weeks they're perfect and I get a little over a year per set. They stay very consistant with growl and snap, you can still hear plenty of zing in them, and still slap great too.

Right now my 78 StingRay is wearing DR's that I installed May/09, and it still sounds growly. Next I'd like to try some R.Cocco's on it.

Nickels, no way! those simply go dead-dead-thuddy dead, and you can tell from the volume and 'power' loss.