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12-05-2005, 03:04 PM
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Do you have the same gauge of strings on all of them (for convenience), or do you use different brands/gauges?
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12-05-2005, 03:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Stockholm, Sweden | | | Same. |
12-05-2005, 03:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Duncan, Okla. | | | I use DR High Beams on my 4's and DR Lo Riders on my 5. I need the taperd strings for my 5. Same gauges. |
12-05-2005, 04:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: South Central OH | | | Different guages, different types ie: Roundwounds, Flatwounds, Tape, elixer nanowebs. Different sounds for different situations.
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12-05-2005, 04:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: NJ, USA | | | Diff strings for diff bases. Depends on:
-Scale (can go lighter on my 35)
-the basses truss rod (My OLP's neck moves alot)
-lighter strings for good slappers (MTD Kingstons), heavier for the thumper (P-bass)
- etc...
All of mine are nickel roundwounds,tho...mostly DRs.. |
12-05-2005, 05:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Gone to a better place | | | Different. Fretless gets Compressors. 4 strings get ultra light (.090 E), 8 and 12 get lighter yet (.085) for the fundamental strings, La Bella piccolo strings for the octave strings. 5 gets super thick (.130) because it's tuned down. Stainless rounds, except the compression wound Compressors. |
12-05-2005, 06:07 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Same except for my P copy that has flats. |
12-05-2005, 06:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | Nope, I change string gauges depending on what I am playing and what the tuning is. |
12-05-2005, 06:34 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Ventura, CA | | | Different, to compliment each bass. |
12-05-2005, 11:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Stockholm, Sweden | | | I am going to answer this again. Same gauge 45-105, but DR Sunbeams for EADG tuning and DR Nickel Lo-Riders for DGCF tuning because of the strings' higher tension. |
12-06-2005, 06:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Ecuador (South America) | | | GHS Super Steels -> IBanez ATK
La Bella Hard Rocking Steel -> Modulus Q6
Smith Rock Masters -> Lakland 55-02 (Changing to DRīs next week to tryout)
I havent found the perfect set for the rest of my basses yet.
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12-06-2005, 08:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Washington, DC / Ithaca, NY | | | Same on all: DR Hibeams, except for when i'm feeling the need for flats, in which case I use TI jazz flats. |
12-06-2005, 09:08 PM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | | Different brands, similar gauges. Trial and error. |
12-06-2005, 09:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY/Boston, MA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Brad Johnson Different brands, similar gauges. Trial and error. | +1 |
12-06-2005, 09:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Cottage Grove, St. Paul suburb | | | Different brands, different guages...all flats. |
12-06-2005, 10:33 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by lonote Different brands, different guages...all flats. | +1 except I am starting to converge the brand on LaBella. |
12-06-2005, 11:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Highland, CA | | | It's all trial & error until you find the tone you are looking for.
After going through just about every string brand out there I use EB Hybrid Slinky's on my Fender Jazz and Regular Slinky's on my SRX.
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12-09-2005, 12:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Stuart,Florida | | all Rotosounds for me  I used to use Fender Flats but they got boring.. |
12-09-2005, 01:54 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Lakland Basses | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Mississippi / Memphis, TN | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by RLT Different guages, different types ie: Roundwounds, Flatwounds, Tape, elixer nanowebs. Different sounds for different situations. | same here... |
12-09-2005, 04:05 PM
|  | Jazz Chicken | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ennui, IN USA | | | Different strings, but center around a few brands.
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