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10-10-2009, 09:26 PM
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My strings are putting alot of tension on my neck, what can i do to get it a lower tension? Lighter gauges? Also, preferably have a nice low end thump. I'm currently using Ernie Balls. i believe the Gauges are .050, .070, 085, .105
Thanks in advance.
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10-10-2009, 09:29 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Thomastic Infeld Jazz Rounds.
Super low tension, light guage, very smooth feel, very nice low end. 
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10-10-2009, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Darkstrike Thomastic Infeld Jazz Rounds.
Super low tension, light guage, very smooth feel, very nice low end. | Thank you, i'll look into those.
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10-10-2009, 09:34 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | No problem dude, they're lovely strings, but expensive.
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10-10-2009, 09:42 PM
| | | | Any of the round core DR strings - Sunbeams, Highbeams, Fatbeams, Xtra life coated.
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10-10-2009, 09:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: TAMPA FLORIDA USA | | | Try 100 guage strings
you get higher slap response but to me you lose a tad of low end
the trade off is lowered tension and bendability
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10-12-2009, 05:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Blackshear, Georgia | | | The DR coloured coated strings, are they rounds?
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10-12-2009, 05:33 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CBgaragebassist The DR coloured coated strings, are they rounds? | They are coated Hi Beams. Very much rounds.
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10-12-2009, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Darkstrike They are coated Hi Beams. Very much rounds. | Thought so but wasn't sure, thanks. Also, the only difference between the different colours is the colour, right?
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10-12-2009, 05:40 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CBgaragebassist Thought so but wasn't sure, thanks. Also, the only difference between the different colours is the colour, right? | Very much so. Other than the colour itself, same string.
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10-12-2009, 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Darkstrike Very much so. Other than the colour itself, same string. | Thank you. Now to decide which colour! 
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10-12-2009, 05:48 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | The hardest part! 
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10-12-2009, 05:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: England | | | They dont actually sound anything like Highbeams though. Much more mellow, to some (like me) dead sounding.
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10-12-2009, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Meatrus They dont actually sound anything like Highbeams though. Much more mellow, to some (like me) dead sounding. | That's what i need. A mellow sounding round is what i'm going for.
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10-12-2009, 06:37 PM
|  | It's time for Dodger baseball! | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Mentone Beach | | | Sunbeams, man, Sunbeams! Round, mellow, floppy.
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10-12-2009, 06:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Klamath Falls, OR | | | Rotos or Cleartones or (?) in 40-60-80-100. They are good on the neck and your hands. You can eq your amp for low end. I never had anybody complain about low end using that guage. I play a P-Bass and a Peavey Cirrus. Have fun, Wayne |
10-13-2009, 04:34 AM
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Originally Posted by CBgaragebassist That's what i need. A mellow sounding round is what i'm going for. | Cool, they may work then, they produce a different sound to any string I have tried, somewhere in between flats and rounds, and not like Nickel (or obviously steel) to my ears.
You mentioned trying a lighter gauge though, and the DRs lightest gauge is 45-105, which isnt all that different than your others. So I wouldnt expect much change on the neck.
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10-13-2009, 04:36 AM
| | Steve Harris nut | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Germany | | | i always thought the ernie balls to have low tension and yet you say it's too much for you? just curious.
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10-13-2009, 05:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Colonel_Claypoo i always thought the ernie balls to have low tension and yet you say it's too much for you? just curious. | I'm sure it's something about the bass. I've got the same kind of Ernie Balls on my secondary bass and they're fine.
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10-13-2009, 06:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK, Essex | | | I seem to remember Ashdown's own strings (the ones that came in the recyclable round tin) feeling rather akin to rubber bands when I tried them years ago. I don't know if they still make them.
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