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06-22-2007, 03:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Otta, Norway | | | Strings for Fender '62 American Vintage Jazz Bass
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Any suggestions for strings for a Fender '62 American Vintage Jazz Bass? I play country-rock, pop/rock and more acoustic based music. |
06-22-2007, 05:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Scotland, UK & NYC | | | Get a set of La Bella Jamersons on there (the "1954" set). Heavy gauge - and you'll have a sound to shale the house at it's foundation!!! Jamerson would be pleased!!
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06-22-2007, 07:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Durham NC | | | Fender Pure Nickels. Never change them. Enjoy. |
06-22-2007, 07:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Durham NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by kevin_lindsay  Get a set of La Bella Jamersons on there (the "1954" set). Heavy gauge - and you'll have a sound to shale the house at it's foundation!!! Jamerson would be pleased!! | LaBella Deep Talkin Flats are great, but I would advise against the Jamerson set. They are very heavy gauge, and very high tension, not for the faint of hand.
The ML set of Labella flats will get you 90% of the way into Jamerson territory, and save your hands. |
06-22-2007, 07:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Saskatoon, Sask. Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jasper383 LaBella Deep Talkin Flats are great, but I would advise against the Jamerson set. They are very heavy gauge, and very high tension, not for the faint of hand.
The ML set of Labella flats will get you 90% of the way into Jamerson territory, and save your hands. | or you could play a little closer to the neck for 99% of the tone or more.
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06-22-2007, 07:48 PM
| | <- Not me I just like looking at her | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cable Wi | | | IMHO the thing about the Jamerson set isn't that they sound that little bit closer to his tone but they feel right. Tone is in the fingers and you can do it much better with those strings. |
06-22-2007, 08:24 PM
| | | | Man those La Bella Jamersons are very high tension. I picked up a set at the N.A.M. show a couple of years ago. I put them on a P-Bass but had to take them off, just way to tight for me. I asked the guitar player I was playing with at the time how they sounded and he said " HUGE" ! I loved the tone but I did'nt think my Bass neck could take tension of those strings. |
06-22-2007, 09:00 PM
| | <- Not me I just like looking at her | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cable Wi | | | I used them on my SX P it doesn't like them but it hasn't folded in half on me yet. |
06-22-2007, 09:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pearland, Tx. | | | String Thing
After many years of using roundwound strings, two years ago I tried Flatwounds and like them. However; when I see some of my favorite bassists/songs using roundwounds, I tend to go back forth between the two types of strings. Well, I finally bought a set of D' Addario Half Rounds ENR71 reg. light gauge which has good qualities of both. First, they are warm, and smooth (not near as smooth) a bit like flats. Also, they are somewhat bright, a tad of growl, with less tension, and more acoustic resonance like rounds. I really like them on my 74' Jazz. Lately, I do not really care for Stanless Steel rounds on this bass =ring,ring,ring... Moreover, flats on my bass take away almost all the growl, except for a couple of notes (what J's do best). This problem makes me go back and forth. However, good luck w/YOUR choice. |
06-25-2007, 03:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Otta, Norway | | | Thanks, all of you! It seems I will try the D'Addario Half Rounds. Seems like I will get the best of both worlds with them. |
06-25-2007, 09:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Kunsan AB, South Korea | | | Rotosound BS66's... .43-.110
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06-25-2007, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by jasper383 Fender Pure Nickels. Never change them. Enjoy. |
I agree. Just put these on my Precision saturday, and played a gig. Absolutely love them.  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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