| |
View Poll Results: Steel, Nickel, Halfies, or Flats? | |
Steel Rounds
|    | 22 | 43.14% | |
Nickel Rounds
|    | 21 | 41.18% | |
Half Rounds
|    | 7 | 13.73% | |
Flatwound
|    | 21 | 41.18% |
 | 
05-28-2006, 02:06 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Phila,Pa. | |  Steel Rounds, Nickel Rounds, Halfies, or Flats?
Sign in to disble this ad
Ok. I know this was asked before but I think it's a due subject. What do you like/use? 1. Steel Rounds 2. Nickel Rounds 3. Half Rounds 4. Flats Please give your reason for your preference. Me personally I like the way some steel strings sound but prefer the feel of nickel.  |
05-28-2006, 02:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Wilmington, NC/Lynchburg, VA | | | I prefer sound and feel of Nickel Rounds on fretted, and flat wounds on fretless. |
05-28-2006, 03:54 PM
| | ...Bluesin' and Funkin' | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | | I have one bass with Nickel Rounds, one with Steel Rounds, and one with Flatwounds.
__________________ Fender Dlx Jaguar Std Jazz Fretless Am Dlx Precision Kustom GrooveBass1200 Avatar B210neo B212 Questionable Quintet
|
05-28-2006, 04:32 PM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | fretted jazz = nickel rounds
fretless jazz = half-rounds
p bass = flats |
05-28-2006, 05:12 PM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | I like steel rounds for my fretted and flats for my fretless. |
05-28-2006, 05:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Urbana, IL | | | I use D'Addario Nickel wounds. They feel great, and they make all my basses sound wonderful.
__________________
βΘИΞКЯŲŜĦÏИĞ® certified. No. 7
"I keep a gun in the book you gave me; Hallelujah, lock and load!"
|
05-28-2006, 05:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ithaca, NY | | | I too use steel rounds on my fretted and monel flats on my fretless.
__________________
Bass>All Reals
|
05-29-2006, 03:43 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: USA-Mineola | | | Jazz basses=nickel D’addario XL 165
P bass=SIT SS Rock brights |
05-29-2006, 04:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: England | | | Rotosound Flatwounds for me! |
05-29-2006, 08:05 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Deep E Texas | | | Brite Flats on everything but the ABG and the '51 P RI, which have LaBella nylon-tape wound.
__________________
"Digo: 'paciencia, y barajar'." -- Don Quijote de la Mancha, Part II, Chapter 23 / Fender fretless #3 TX bassist #48 fretless #233, Fender P #242, Godin #21
|
05-29-2006, 08:12 AM
|  | Fingers, pick, and a little bit of slap | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Terrapin country (Crofton, MD) | | | I like nickel and steel rounds best, and flats next (as a specialty string). I've never cared for half-rounds. |
05-29-2006, 08:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY/Boston, MA | | | I used nickel rounds now. Used steels for a year but got tired of the pingy high end. |
05-29-2006, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: St. Louis, MO, USA | | | steel rounds, theyre brighter longer than nickels.
my favs are DR highbeams and Daddario Prosteels |
05-29-2006, 01:21 PM
|  | Supporting Member
Endorser: Dean Markley / Thunderfunk | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Branson, Missouri | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by SGT. Pepper Me personally I like the way some steel strings sound but prefer the feel of nickel. | I agree, and just started using the nickel plated Blue Steels. I had never liked Blue Steels before, but these have the smooth feel of nickel with the edge of steel strings. Very nice. |
05-29-2006, 01:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Isle of Lucy | | | Flats all around for me. But I think I'm going to try another set of halfs on my Hot Rod P.
__________________
Fender MIA Member #17L|Lefty Union Member #4|Cigar Club Member #5
|
05-29-2006, 01:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Clinton, MA | | | Custom Fender Jazz (fretted): DR Roundwounds
Custom Fender P Special (fretless): any flatwounds I can find (they're rare where I am)
Ovation Celebrity Acoustic/Electric (fretted): D'Addario EPBB170 PB Bass Soft Acoustic Strings
All sets I use on all basses have a medium gage of .45 to .105 except the D'Addario, they have a .45 to .100 gauge, basically the same thing.
Last edited by MikeRS : 05-29-2006 at 01:57 PM.
| | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | |
