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05-16-2006, 10:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: sheffield, england | | | Just ordered some Jamersons!
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I've been interested in trying them out for ages now - and I found some on Ebay for about £23 so I'd figure I'd see for myself - just wanna try them, ya know - if I like them then whenever I lend my bass to someone they'll say "How the F~~~! do you play using them?" and it'll be a real laugh!
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05-16-2006, 10:39 AM
| | | | If you haven't been using heavy gauge flats before or played upright you may also be saying that. I had fender 9050m strings on before so the transistion was much of problem (the e is 110 instead of 105). They're great strings though, but low action won't work well with them and you need a little relief in the neck for them to set out nicely. But yeah lots of people have trouble playing my bass. It's especially hilarious when people try to slap on them.
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05-16-2006, 12:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: sheffield, england | | OK I admit I'll probably be saying that too. I've never tried flats before...but I've got some pretty fat strings on my fretless Precision at the moment which are really helping my finger strength (I'm used to 100's and I'm not sure what these are - I had a tech put them on...but they are probably the thickest strings I've ever played on a 4-string bass, the E has kind of low B feel but tighter)
It should be good fun to try them out - even if nothing else it only helps my speed on my thinner strung basses its still worth a bash... 
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05-16-2006, 12:17 PM
| | | | If you end up not liking them (mind you it takes months before you really break them in) I'd say try the fender 9050m set, they're a little lighter gauge but they share a very similar sound, and your action doesn't need to be quite as high for them. I switched from some brand on nylon strings to those as a short and scrawny 7th grader ( a while back) so you should be able to handle them. I switched to Jamersons in November of last year and I'm still toying with my setup, sometimes I go really high, but then my left hand says no, then I go to low and my right hand says "where's my tension". But if you like the tone, but the low e is a little to much try the 9050m set that's 105-55. Real similar sound and they're easier to manage. Keep in mind Jamerson switched from upright back in the day so his fender would be like a toy for him.
And put them on a pbass for sure, a fretted one preferably, but set the action so you don't hear the frets, and if you can stick foam under the strings by the bridge. It's even better if you get the bridge cover and put the foam above the strings and under that. I recently installed one on my 97 MIA p, sounds great and looks great.
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05-23-2006, 06:41 AM
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Update:
They arrived this morning - WOAH!
THATS the sound I've been after! They scared me a bit when I pulled them out of the pack, that E string looks SO big and...so much like it came off a piano!!
Anyway, I took my old ones off and started putting them on - no probs, then I got to the A string...both the A and E strings are TOO THICK TO FIT INTO THE HOLE IN THE TUNING PEG ON MY SQUIER! - so, sod it - I just wound them on! Its funny, THEY'RE TOO BIG FOR MY NUT...they just sit on top, but again, sod it. My action from the 2nd fret up is half a centimetre + and gets to 1cm by fret 13 or so...the once straight neck now has a REAL back bow on it (i.e. my eyesight is bad and I can't tell any difference in the neck uinless its REALLY bad...)
...but the SOUND! Its great, they're real dead...which is exactly the kind of sound I like - thumpy not clacky. I've tried popping one of them...not gonna happen (well, the things are REALLY high and THICK so I'm not surprised...) - but yeah, I've had to order them off Ebay from the USA and I've gotta say I'm not disappointed!   
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05-23-2006, 07:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: sheffield, england | | ...anyone think I should get a setup done? 
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05-23-2006, 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by addylewis ...anyone think I should get a setup done? | What do you think? 
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05-23-2006, 09:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Denton, TX | | | You know, they aren't that big. I've got black nylon tapewounds on my P-bass, and thats a .60 - .115 set.
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05-23-2006, 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Sonorous You know, they aren't that big. | I know they arent as tight as I thought they would be...but they are still so big I cannot get the end of the A and E strings into the hole on the machine head, and they aren't all sitting nicely into the nut.
I gotta say though - I've decided flatwounds are pretty nice strings. They feel different to how I thought they'd feel...I thought they'd feel like taught metal ribbon (if that makes any sense...FLAT feeling) but they feel like iron bars, and they're still a round shape. I can't make up my mind over the setup...I'll probably just leave it as it is until someone tells me I need to sort it
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05-23-2006, 12:30 PM
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05-23-2006, 02:39 PM
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My bass was 60 quid off a mate, the strings 23 including international postage...
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05-23-2006, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by addylewis Eh?
My bass was 60 quid off a mate, the strings 23 including international postage... | im kidding man. i just asked how much jamersons son costed since you said you bought some jamersons. get it?
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05-23-2006, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Sonorous You know, they aren't that big. I've got black nylon tapewounds on my P-bass, and thats a .60 - .115 set. | Yes but those have a quite a bit less tension then the Jamersons.
As far as a setup, most of the guys playing those never had one, so if you can play what you need to play on it and nothing's buzzing (where you need to play, I doubt you'll be playing many licks passed the double dots on the lower strings), and you can last a gig on them I'd say you don't need one. I'd say toy with it for a while and let them settle in. The greatest thing is that if you play an upright gig (or as I did saturday one set on upright/ one on electric/ one on upright) is how easy they seem to play after that.
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05-23-2006, 04:00 PM
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Yeah - I was thinking of getting them to help build up some muscle strength...and to maybe help if I ever get a double bass to play around with...
Cool strings though...is it just me or does the mass seem a helluva lot more simply by them being flatwound and not having all them tiny grooves?
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05-25-2006, 07:43 PM
|  | No Longer Works a Day Job | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: USA | | | If you spend a few hours on DB and then pick up your electric bass-they will feel like nothing. I did a musical where i switched basses every few tunes-after i played my DB-picking up my electric felt like a toy and i knew i was playing with way too much force.
Congrats on the strings.
take it easy.
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05-25-2006, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by CamMcIntyre If you spend a few hours on DB and then pick up your electric bass-they will feel like nothing. I did a musical where i switched basses every few tunes-after i played my DB-picking up my electric felt like a toy and i knew i was playing with way too much force.
Congrats on the strings.
take it easy. | Oh yeah, I love how easy EB is after playing upright for a while. It must have felt like a toy to Jamerson and the other upright players from the day (before all this amplification of uprights, I've played some upright set up easier than my electric).
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06-06-2006, 05:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: North East London | | | Addy, try www,stringbusters.com they're in West London.
My order arrived by post in two days.
Best price I've found for La Bella.
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06-06-2006, 08:33 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: In your basement. | | | Little tip on these size strings with this kind of tension, practice lightly playing them. In all honesty I have them on a couple of basses and if you try to pluck hard you could damage yourself. I also play the DB so . . . but these same times feel stiffer than my DB strings when I try to lean into them.
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06-28-2006, 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by addylewis Update:
Its funny, THEY'RE TOO BIG FOR MY NUT...they just sit on top, but again, sod it. |
that's a good way to break the nut....I learned that the hard way
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06-29-2006, 06:18 AM
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Originally Posted by drums2bass that's a good way to break the nut....I learned that the hard way
Better to file the slots bigger so they'll fit right | Or put in a new nut and keep the old one just in case you decide to go back to a lighter guage.
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