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Old 11-21-2010, 03:11 AM
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Strings identification, i need help (photos inside)

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Hi guys,
last week i bought an used Cort B4FL. The prevoius owner swapped its factory D'Addario strings with some flatwounds, but he said he doesn't remember what strings they are. He said they may be Fender, but he's not 100% sure.
Can you help me identify those strings?

They have green silk on the ball end, and they're naked and the other end, here some pics:

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Old 11-21-2010, 05:14 AM
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Yep, that shade of blue in a flatwound looks like Fender to me.
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Old 11-21-2010, 08:17 AM
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Fenders for sure. Not sure if the new ones (they repackaged and changed them recently-ish) still have the green silks, the old ones definitely do.
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Old 11-21-2010, 08:21 AM
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SS Fender flats..
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Old 11-21-2010, 08:37 AM
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They look like the reformulated Fender flats to me. And these new Fender flats have the best tone of any flats I've ever played, and I've played at one time or another all of them in my 35+ years of playing bass. Give them a chance. They don't sound "hollow" like D'Addario chromes and similar, they have more "bite" than Labellas, they actually have a flatwound "vibe" unlike the various groundwounds from whatever company, they're not quite as "soft," both in tone and tension, as TI's, and they have reasonable tension that won't require much of a truss rod tweak, unlike the high tension of Rotosound monels.
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Old 11-21-2010, 08:41 AM
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I found Fenders to have too much tension
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