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05-16-2012, 02:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Boston | | | Mid-focused Rounds
I've been on a string kick lately for my franken-p.. I've tried roto steels and nickels, dunlop nickels, dr sunbeams and lowriders, and a set of ghs boomers, but none of them have really tickled my tone bone per se. The roto nickels were on the right track but the life span was horrible they died in a week..
I'm not really looking for the roto steel brightness, I'm really just looking for the most low/mid mid-forward, not so much for the wicked bright stainless hi mids and highs.. any suggestions? |
05-16-2012, 03:18 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Spector Basses | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Leesburg, VA | | | Dean Markley Blue Steels come to mind.
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05-16-2012, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by husky123  Dean Markley Blue Steels come to mind. | I think about them also  |
05-16-2012, 04:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Boston | | | I guess I'm looking for a lot of thickness to them.. really meaty but still snappy and snarly for lack of better terms |
05-16-2012, 04:10 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Central Ca | | | Blue steels are what Willis was talking about.... |
05-16-2012, 04:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | DR black beauties..not as bright as roto steels but pretty mid forward
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05-16-2012, 05:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2012 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Hizzoner DR black beauties..not as bright as roto steels but pretty mid forward |
How long does the coating on those last? I've seen some reviews on youtube about the guitar strings (Red Devils) in which the coating came off in a week. This could also be due to how the string was mounted. The directions indicate that you have to be careful not to scrape the string when pulling it through the bridge plate/piece as it may damage the coating. |
05-16-2012, 05:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Coeur d'Alene | | | Fender 7150 pure nickels.
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05-16-2012, 06:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Upstate, South Carolina | | | Sadowsky Blue Label Nickels are exactly what you're describing.
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05-16-2012, 06:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Nesconset, N.Y. | | | I like Blue Steels, Dean Markley used to sell twin packs of nickel plated steels that were cheap & sounded like what you want. Also liked Labella Hard Rockin steels when I tried them years ago for the low mids. |
05-16-2012, 06:23 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Ottawa, Ontario | | | Low Mids...Definitely La Bella Steels or DR Nickel Lo-Riders. |
05-16-2012, 08:46 PM
|  | Thanks to Alembic, I'll have G.A.S. until I die. | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: New York City | | | Try the Ernie Ball Cobalts. About 90% of the agressiveness of Rotos, but with much longer life. |
05-18-2012, 08:06 PM
| | | | Dean markley Blue steel and Dr Neons both have great mids. The BS's a little more kick to the low bass, the Neons a little more hifi tone to the low bass.
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05-18-2012, 08:13 PM
| | | | I just got a set of fodera nickel strings. Very much midrange indeed. Give them a try. |
05-18-2012, 09:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Mount Vernon, WA | | | I second the Fodera's. Extremely grisly and tend to have a bit higher tension. I also loved La Bella slappers. By far the most growly string I have ever tried were rotosound 66's, but you might as well just go ahead and take a file to your frets and fingers. The other two choices are close, though. I think most steel strings fall way short when compared to nickel string growl.
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05-18-2012, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Thump_N_Bloom How long does the coating on those last? I've seen some reviews on youtube about the guitar strings (Red Devils) in which the coating came off in a week. This could also be due to how the string was mounted. The directions indicate that you have to be careful not to scrape the string when pulling it through the bridge plate/piece as it may damage the coating. | The coating lasts a long time if you aren't using a pick. Actually the coating lasts a long time even if you are using a pick, the colored part scrapes off though.
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05-19-2012, 06:54 AM
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Originally Posted by mmbongo Sadowsky Blue Label Nickels are exactly what you're describing. | I had the opposite experience with these on my J bass. I need to buy another set and try on another. They didn't seem to have much of a low mid presence at all. Much more high mids, treble, & bass to me. 
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05-19-2012, 07:57 AM
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Originally Posted by madbassplaya I had the opposite experience with these on my J bass. I need to buy another set and try on another. They didn't seem to have much of a low mid presence at all. Much more high mids, treble, & bass to me. | It boggles my mind sometimes how different strings sound on different basses.
I have to cut low mids with the Sadowsky's on my Lakland to make them sound close to the Nickel LoRiders I normally use on that bass. Nickel LoRiders have a punch and presence that no other string has on that bass. Sunbeams were also disappointing on my Lakland.
Then again, those same Nickel LoRiders sound puny on my Warwick, which still has Ernie Ball Cobalts which sound HUGE on that bass. But Cobalts on my Lakland....crap. Awful. Sunbeams too. Awful.
Sunbeams on my Spector? Tone straight from God himself.
Funny how things work like that!
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05-19-2012, 08:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Boston | | | Looks like the blue steels are on top of the heap as far as number of recommendations go.. How's the life span and how rough are they? If I dig them I may try them on my fretless.. looking for new strings for that too with the same tonal goal in mind. I'm curious about the cobalts too.. Anybody have anything else about them? |
05-19-2012, 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Rock-Bassman Looks like the blue steels are on top of the heap as far as number of recommendations go.. How's the life span and how rough are they? If I dig them I may try them on my fretless.. looking for new strings for that too with the same tonal goal in mind. I'm curious about the cobalts too.. Anybody have anything else about them? | Blue steels are smoother feeling then most rounds and also a little lower tension then most others of same gauges. Also longer lifespan the roto swing66.
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