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06-20-2011, 10:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Neither here, nor there! | |  Thomastik Jazz Flats...2+2 issues...AGAIN?!
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So I took the plunge and bought jazz flats last week. This is my second set. The first ones were defective at the windings as they came loose when stringing them up...Strike 1...Thomastik replaced them. Now I'm experiencing the dreaded 2 + 2 effect...E and A sound exactly like rounds, very zingy and harmonic, the D and G are completely dead sounding...More "Dead" than your standard flats. Is this normal??? For the price of these strings this is getting kind of ridiculous. I just want a balanced set of flats...I don't want to wait a year for them to even out. Maybe it's another defective Thomastik set??! Do they normally have these quality issues?? The D has no sustain at all, it's completely dead and tubby sounding.
Last edited by eggfart1 : 06-20-2011 at 11:55 PM.
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06-21-2011, 04:10 AM
|  | Signed, Sealed, Delivered | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: NY & MA | | | I've used and played TI Jazz Flats for years... many years. They are, IMHO, exceptionally well made strings, the highest quality, very carefully made. The odds of getting 2 batches in a row that have a defect (even one surprises me) are so rare that I'm not sure it's possible.
In another forum you were having some setup issues with your instrument... is that instrument the same instrument you're having these string troubles with? |
06-21-2011, 04:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Napier, New Zealand. | | | Something is amiss. I've had my TI Flats for 11 or 12 years and they are still great. Done a pile of gigs with them, had them on several different basses before I found my current Jazz bass. In fact I've been carrying a spare set around as backup for years, but haven't needed them.
I suppose it's possible you could get two bad sets, but I find that hard to imagine. Is there any way you can swap them onto another bass and see if the problem still exists? |
06-21-2011, 08:49 AM
| | Dry and Heavy | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | | Do you crimp them first, ahead of the place you cut them? |
06-21-2011, 09:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Neither here, nor there! | | They were installed by a pro guitar shop, I assume (they look) like they were crimped.  |
06-21-2011, 03:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Neither here, nor there! | | | Problem Solved!!
There was too much relief in the neck, it was causing some nasty buzzing. The Thomastiks, meh just not a fan. Went to the store about bought some DR DDT's....it's shaking the walls!!!!!! Best strings ever! |
06-23-2011, 09:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Dallas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by eggfart1  There was too much relief in the neck, it was causing some nasty buzzing. The Thomastiks, meh just not a fan. Went to the store about bought some DR DDT's....it's shaking the walls!!!!!! Best strings ever! | too much relief in the neck was causing nasty buzzing?
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06-24-2011, 01:35 AM
| | Dry and Heavy | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Swiss Alps | | | My guess there was not enough relief- as we know the TIs have low tension, probably not enough to pull the neck straight with the way his truss rod was set.
But who knows, really? Sketchy info... |
06-24-2011, 01:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Oklahoma | | | But who knows, really? Sketchy info...
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06-24-2011, 01:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Arizona | | | My Thomastik Jazz Flats and my superalloys are some of the best strings I have ever owned! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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