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08-13-2010, 08:19 PM
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Now, for the other end of the spectrum, is there any particular flatwound string that has a significant noticeable difference in warmth than any of the rest?
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08-13-2010, 10:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Bend, Oregon | | | I find GHS Precision flats to be about as warm as a flat gets. I like them alot.
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08-13-2010, 10:21 PM
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08-13-2010, 10:24 PM
|  | I got nuthin to say | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oakland, CA | | | Honestly, TI jazz rounds blow any flat I've played out of the water for warmth...and I was a flat guy before those...mostly chromes and sometimes some tapes. The winding is smaller than a regular round wound so it feels somewhere between a flat, ground, and a round.
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08-14-2010, 08:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: West Memphis/Marion area, AR. | | | GHS Precision flats-Count me in on those too. |
08-14-2010, 08:26 PM
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08-14-2010, 08:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Staten Island, NY | | | Warmth is pretty subjective. Out of the box, DR flats are very bottom heavy. LaBella Deep Talkin' Flats have a very warm sound, but it's a very complex mid-heavy sound. Very expressive strings, and similar to a nice pizzicato upright bass string.
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08-14-2010, 08:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: US | | | GHS Precision flats are very warm and thumpy -- one of my favorite flats!
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08-14-2010, 08:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Philadelphia | | | Of the four types I've tried, GHS Precision flats, no question, with Ernie Ball a distant second.
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08-15-2010, 04:58 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Durham NC | | | Pyramid flats are warmer than even the GHS Precision Flats. |
08-15-2010, 05:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | | +1 to Labella Deep Talkin' Bass. |
08-15-2010, 05:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Hamburg, Germany | | | La Bella and GHS, both. If you want to save yourself some money, take the GHS lol (you can get two sets of GHS for one set of La Bella over here).
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08-15-2010, 07:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Chicago | | | Pyramids and Labellas |
08-15-2010, 08:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: WI, USA | | | How's the tension on the GHS? |
08-15-2010, 08:11 PM
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Luthier at Rainbow Music Omaha | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Omaha, Nebraska | | | I ordered some pyramid gold flats, they better be worth the 72 buck.
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08-15-2010, 10:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Bend, Oregon | | Quote:
Originally Posted by kreider204 How's the tension on the GHS? | The 2 lighter gauges feel "normal". The thick gauge has a lot of tension to me.
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08-15-2010, 10:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: WI, USA | | | Thanks! |
08-15-2010, 10:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Quebec | | GHS Flats light gauge are my favorite strings. They have somewhat low tension, and a warm tone. But if you're hard with them, they can have a beautiful aggressive growly tone. They kinda beg to be spanked a little bit  . |
08-15-2010, 10:39 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Burlington, Vermont vt | | | So the OP is getting a handful of suggestions that narrow down the field. This seems like the time to try them all out (and report back on TB). Warmth is by nature subjective. I've tried lots of them and keep coming back to the musicality of the Labella DTB's. Have fun and try them all!
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08-15-2010, 11:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Metro Detroit | | | I have to try the GHS flats. I've heard the GHS strings, on another guys bass (old Kramer aluminum neck bass with EMG P pickup), and they sounded wonderful. Seriously wonderful. Warm is a GREAT way to describe what I heard.
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