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View Poll Results: Preferred String Type | |
Roundwounds
|    | 4086 | 72.83% | |
Flatwounds
|    | 1140 | 20.32% | |
Nylons
|    | 82 | 1.46% | |
Compression, 1/2, groundwound (either or)
|    | 171 | 3.05% | |
Other
|    | 131 | 2.34% |
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07-29-2003, 02:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Austin, TX | | | play DR and D'Addario roundwounds. Love both but really prefer DR overall. Currently just changed from DR Nickel Lowriders to DR Nickel Sunbeams and I REALLY LOVE the playability of the Sunbeams! Noticeable difference in tension due to Sunbeams roundcore vs. Lowriders hexcore.
I've played Fender, Ernie Ball, Rotosound and GHS in the past. IMO I think DR is just a better sounding, feeling and playing string...but then again...I've not tried every string on the market.
-Bazz-
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08-04-2003, 03:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Memphis, TN | | Quote: |
What kind of strings do you use?
| Metal Ones |
08-05-2003, 10:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Boston, MA | | | SIT steinberger headless double balled strings.
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08-08-2003, 02:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: UK | | I have Rotosound roundwounds on my fretted 6
Orange nickelwounds on my fretless four
and Ernie Ball regular slinky roundwounds on my fretted 4
I haven't gathered a preferance for strings much yet, i just like to play  .
I have never played flatwounds outside of a store so I dont have any real idea what they sound like. Maybe if/when I get a six string fretless I'll try some, but that won't be for quite a while. |
08-10-2003, 06:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: North Kingstown, Rhode Island | | | New string update. D'addario EXPs for the fretted's, and Chromes for the fretless. |
08-12-2003, 11:28 PM
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Avatar Speakers Endorsing Hooligan | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Bakersfield California | | | GHS Boomers Roundwound lite gauge... |
08-15-2003, 12:42 AM
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Avatar Speakers Endorsing Hooligan | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Bakersfield California | | | scratch that. my boomers were dead in 2 days. |
08-15-2003, 01:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Canada | | | Ernie Ball Hybrid Slinkys. Love these strings. |
08-17-2003, 11:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Buffalo, New York USA | |
Rotosound roundwounds on '78 jazz
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08-20-2003, 11:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Findlay, Ohio | | | Just something magical about a Musicman with fresh out of the pack DR High Beams.
That's the sound of bass fellas!
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09-02-2003, 11:11 AM
| | | | TI Jazz Flatwound on a Lakland. Buttery! |
09-05-2003, 03:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: UK, Norwich | | Extra dead heavy gauge Rotosound '66 Roundwounds...mmm...phat me 
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09-08-2003, 08:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Baltimore, MD | | | the big switch
I've been using DR Hi-Beams (Med Taper Core) for several years until recently. I just wasn't happy with their sound or feel on a new bass (Brubaker) that came with SIT strings. At first I wasn't happy with the stock strings but after putting on the Hi Beams I was wishing I had stuck with them. After looking around at a local store I tried a Dean Markley SR2000 set and have been very pleased. I am not sure about life yet but they feel great and sound very nice as well. I plan on restringing my Lakland and FBB basses as well with them to see if I like them across the board or if its something particular about the Brubaker. |
09-10-2003, 04:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NET | | | DR Lo Riders, stainless, medium, on a P-type bass with a passive Bartolini. I play hard fingerstyle, and those strings seem to have a lot of mass - I can really feel the momentum building up as the groove gets rolling.
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09-14-2003, 01:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: In the kitchen | | | Piano String from Rotosound.
Work a treat on the old Precision |
09-19-2003, 12:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The frozen north | | Strings, strings, more strings... - Fretted Overwater, Modulus and Fender: Steel roundwounds (branded Overwater)
- Fretless Overwater: Nickel roundwound (branded Overwater)
- Rob Allen: La Bella Deep Talkin' Bass nylon tape wounds
- Turner Renaissance: Thomastik-Infeld nylon-core bronze
- Eminence EUB: Pirastro Obligato
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09-24-2003, 06:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: North Kingstown, Rhode Island | | | Hmm, I thought I posted this.
But as of a week ago,
DR High beams for rounds, D'addario chromes for flats. |
09-27-2003, 04:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: I'm from Venus. | |  What kind of strings do you use?
I find that some basses react better to certain kinds of string.........I use the Thomastik brand but different types on different basses. 
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09-27-2003, 07:38 AM
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Builder: Valenti Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Staten Island NYC | | | Currently, I'm using Stainless Steel roundwounds. |
09-27-2003, 09:39 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Big Bethel, Virginia | | | Ended up putting Thomastik Jazz Rounds on my project PJ (wenge neck, black korina body, Alembic electronics). Sweet, dark and mysterious for jazz. Not enough cut for rock. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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