| Loose the Stock Strings!!!!!
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I'm still a noob. Playing for about 8 months now. When I was an absolute newbie noob, I had lots of questions about what strings I wanted to replace the stock ones on my short scale bass. The low E was pretty floppy (I know, short scale) and I wanted to know where to go from there.
Gots lots of good help here, but the consensus was: "first, replace the stock strings".
After much searching and finally buying a new set, I have one word of advice for ANY new bass player with string questions:
LOOSE THE STOCK STRINGS!!!! if you'd rather think about it for a while, that's fine but,
LOOSE THE STOCK STRINGS!!!!
Especially if they are like the stock strings on many cheap basses that have the winding wrapped around the peg.
I had stock round wounds, wanted to try flats, but wanted a heavier set to tighten up my low E. Couldn't find a heavier set. Bought a set of GHS Bright Flats with a 108 low E (same gage as stock) AND IT MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.
I'm sure there's nothing terribly remarkable about ghs bright flats. But compared to the stock strings...holy %$#@! what a difference.
So in summary, to all the newbies (like me) with a million string questions. Save yourself a lot of pain and worry. Before you waste 1 second worrying about what kind of strings to buy, if you bought a cheap bass,
LOOSE THE STOCK STRINGS, get a new set, any set, as long as it's made for the scale bass you play. Put them on, bathe in the amazing difference over junk stock strings, THEN worry about asking the more experianced players what you should think about for your next set.
Thanks for the help, all.
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