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Hey people:
I'm building up a FrankenJazz project. I'm putting a Geddy Lee signature neck on my (currently fretless) Jazz, and taking the neck off my fretless to have it coated by HG Thor and then put on a sunburst body with Nordtrands, a BA II, and an audere preamp. It's sort of going to be a modernized BOD.
So planning for this updated version of my fretless makes me wonder: should I stay with familiar strings or try something new?
I started several years ago using GHS Pressurewounds on my fretted and fretless basses, in hopes of having a consistent feel between them.
Then the Pressurewounds became nearly impossible to find for some reason, and I had to try other alternaives. I was going through a traditionalist phase so I decided to go with flats and (mostly) liked the results.
I went with Fender flats first, because that was what was available. They lasted almost a week until I couldn't stand it any more. String tension was huge and uncomfortable.
Then I went with Rotosound flats. The tension was much more reasoable, and for a month or two they sound great. Then they go dead.
My next option would be to either go back to my Pressurewounds, get some other similar alternative half-round type string, or find better flats. This is going to be on a coated fingerboard, more like a Pedulla Buzz than the previous standard fretless Fender Jazz that it has been. So which string blooms into a huge pretty mwah on a coated 'board?
Think Jaco's sound with Joni Mitchell as a perfect fretless sound. What string has medium-low tension and sounds like that for a long time?
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