Picked up a set of Roto 77 flats today...

[southpaw420]

My boss gave me a Samash gift card for Christmas along with my
bonus so today I decided to get a free set flats to experiment with. I was pretty set on getting a set of Labellas to try but they only had short scale sets in stock. I was pretty bummed but I saw they had Rotosound flats for the same price so I figured why not? Well, when i first strung them up and played for a couple of minutes I really wasnt liking them, they felt different than the flats I was used to playing and sounded realllly bright close to sounding like rounds. I decided I would take them off after I got home from work. I just played for about an hour with these strings and now they feel great. Alot less clangy then when I first strung them and less trebly sounding. Im guessing they just had to settle a little bit I only worked for 8 hours and they sound and feel alot more to my liking. All in all not a bad deal can't wait till i really break em in.

[chadhargis]

The Chromes I have did the same thing. When I first put them on I thought they sounded too bright. Now that I've got a few hours of play on them, they sound very mellow. Good stuff.

[FromBeyond]

Yeah, rs77's are really roundwound like when you first play em, but they mellow out really fast. Mine are 2 months old now and they have every quality i could desire from a string.

[funkytoe]

Trust me ... keep those 77's on your bass. They just get better and better as they break in.

[DB10]

I ordered a set of RS77 short scale flat online. Went to re-string my bass, and discovered that one of the strings in the pack was a long scale. Fired off an email to MF, they wrote back apologizing, and saying they would send me a whole new set, no need for me to send back my one wrong string. (That's good customer service, although considering how much I spend on that site, they should treat me that well ).
So my bass is strung for a week with 3 flatwounds, and 1 roundwound while I waiting for the new string. I mostly played a different bass all week, but maybe played around for a couple hours with this one.
New strings come, I throw the one on that I need - totally different sound that the same strings put on 1 week earlier. Crazy how quickly the brightness/twanginess fades. So that is one week, and maybe 2 hours of play.

[mario222]

I've had a set of 50-110 77's on my P for about a year now and they just sounding better and better! The best is yet to come let them mellow you will love them!