New from La Bella! Tapewound Content!

[CapnSev]

Well I ordered my set of "White" Tapes from Jason today, looking forward to testing these babies out on my fretless!

[BillyIVbass]

Hey, I checked these out for my blog. I recorded a sound clip with my MIA P-bass. http://www.guitarworld.com/review-la...d-bass-strings

And here's a shot on a maple board;

[bassist4dalord]

I think I'm going to buy a medium scale light-gauge set for my Ibanez AEB5E. I'm a D'Addario fanboy, and I have D'Addario Tapes on my electric, but I really want to try these White Nylon Tapes on the acoustic. I might consider myself a Tapewound convert...

[Tankdave]

Originally Posted by SLaPiNFuNK

Much earlier than 5 weeks... Hoping to start shipping in less than two.

Cool, sent you a PM

[Pimpernel Smith]

This is just speculation on my part, but could the "White" tapewound strings actually be a clear hard nylon shrink wrap over the stainless steel strings, as opposed to the older method of actually wrapping the black nylon tape over the strings? hence a smoother surface?

[3234718]

They feel like long, flexible plastic tubes. I think if it was shrink wrap, the texture of the roundwound string underneath would be felt through the nylon.

[SLaPiNFuNK]

If you ever have seen lanyard's... (you know the thingies that the girl was selling door to door in Napoleon Dynamite), the material kinda starts out like that and is wound around the string. Then it is ground silky smooth.

[Pimpernel Smith]

That descriptions sounds like a bonafide tape wound. I had not realized that they were polished smooth after having been wrapped around the round wound strings.

[3234718]

I thought black labella tapes were the smoothest strings in the world, till I got my "white" tapes. You can try to make finger noise, and you'll fail.

[3234718]

Originally Posted by SLaPiNFuNK

If you ever have seen lanyard's... (you know the thingies that the girl was selling door to door in Napoleon Dynamite), the material kinda starts out like that and is wound around the string. Then it is ground silky smooth.

[Pimpernel Smith]

Excellent illustration!

[SLaPiNFuNK]

Well... That's how tapes are.

Except for there are some tapes that are not ground smooth.

[Root 5]

Originally Posted by SLaPiNFuNK

Except for there are some tapes that are not ground smooth.

Like Fender!

The Fender tapes are good strings - but they are a little rougher & brighter sounding than others.

[Matthew_84]

I have a general question about tapes. I believe what gives them their warmer sound is the nylon wrapped around the roundwound string. Does the amount of nylon come into effect? IE, if one was to ground more nylon off and leave only a very thin coat, would the strings sound brighter?

[Tankdave]

I think it's nylon wrapped on flat's?

[rodl2005]

It's round wound under most tapes I've seen.
I dunno if you COULD take SOME of the nylon off
I'd just imagine it'd unravel......
I s'pose it "could" be done.
Mythbusters??

[CapnSev]

Originally Posted by Tankdave

I think it's nylon wrapped on flat's?

Nope. Only Rotos are flats under the tape.

[Matthew_84]

Originally Posted by Matthew_84

I have a general question about tapes. I believe what gives them their warmer sound is the nylon wrapped around the roundwound string. Does the amount of nylon come into effect? IE, if one was to ground more nylon off and leave only a very thin coat, would the strings sound brighter?

My purpose in asking this question is really to know which gauge would be brighter, the light guage or the heavy gauge. Most people believe lighter gauges will sound brighter (which makes sense because higher pitched strings are thinner, so are guiatr strings, etc), but some people argue that thicker strings create more harmonic overtones, which would make them brighter still. This question alone has confused me, but the nylon tape adds something else to the equation. Take the size of the light gauge, string gauge and thickness of nylon coating into consideration. When they thicken them up to the heavier guage, what gets increased. Does the string guage stay the same, but nylon coating gets thicker, does the coating stay the same and the string gets thicker, or they both increase by the same ratios? If the heavier guage has a thicker coating of nylon on it than the light guage, would that then make them warmer?

[SLaPiNFuNK]

Originally Posted by rodl2005

It's round wound under most tapes I've seen.

Pretty much all of them.

I will sacrifice some strings in the near future. I have with a few including rotosound and they were rounds.

[Tankdave]

You learn something every day