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10-09-2007, 05:28 PM
| | | | What are your favourite string for a Fender P-Bass
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What are your favourites? I was thinking of putting a set of Rotosound FM66 (30-90) string on there, but they're quite light and i'm not sure i'll get the best from the bass.
Whaddya reckon? What is your favourite for a Fender P? |
10-09-2007, 05:54 PM
| | | | Maybe some Rotosound nickels or perhaps some Daddario chrome flatwounds , the extra fundamental of flats will really sound good with a P Bass and the Daddarios are bright sounding enough that it wont sound muddy. However my faves at the moment are the Ernie Ball flatwounds, hated them at first as they are quite bright at first (for flats) but the twang soon goes. |
10-09-2007, 06:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Central Illinois | | | If its a Pbass, its gotta be flats man. I've tried Rotosound RS77 flats and Fender ML flats, both great for pbasses. The Roto's were a bit brighter than the fenders, but the fenders had that quintessential THUMP. |
10-09-2007, 09:30 PM
| | | | I have five P-Basses and do keep D'addario Chromes on two of them...But my favorite strings on a Precision are D'addario Nickel Wound Rounds...I love them ! ! ! ! |
10-09-2007, 10:33 PM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by david fitch  I have five P-Basses and do keep D'addario Chromes on two of them...But my favorite strings on a Precision are D'addario Nickel Wound Rounds...I love them ! ! ! ! | +1
either D'addario Chromes or Nickels. |
10-09-2007, 10:36 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | I have one with D'addario XL nickels and one with Fender flats. The one with D'addarios gets the most play, but I dig the flats as well. It doesn't "gotta be flats" on a Precision, BTW. Rounds sound every bit as good on a Precision. |
10-10-2007, 04:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Vienna, Austria | | Quote:
Originally Posted by markjazzbassist +1
either D'addario Chromes or Nickels. | +2.
I tried others but Chromes and XLs give me exactly what I want to hear from a P.
Fender 7250 rounds and 9050 flats are nice as well.
Strings that didnīt quite work for me on my Ps are Rotosound Nickels, GHS Boomers and all kinds of steel rounds.
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10-10-2007, 04:31 AM
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Endorsing artist: MarkBass, LeFay, Rotosound | | | | | IMO nothing beats the LaBella Flatwounds, Motown all the way, baby!! |
10-10-2007, 10:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Cottage Grove, St. Paul suburb | | | I use Fender 9050 ML strings on my P-Basses. I prefer D'Addario Chromes on my other basses, though. |
10-10-2007, 12:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Columbus, OH | | | Hard to believe I'm the first to say: TI flats. That's what's on mine right now. If they stopped making them, I would wait 5 or 6 years. Then I would probably go with D'Addario Xl's until I found an old bass with TI flats on it, take the TI's off it, put them on the P, put the XL's on the old bass and resell it.
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10-10-2007, 01:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Los Angeles | | | Labella flats for the classic sound
Rotosound rounds for the "other" classic sound
Chromes or DR Nickel LoRiders for more "modern" variations on the above . . . . |
10-10-2007, 02:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota | | | D'Addario Chromes for flats, GHS Boomers for rounds.
Rounds on a P bass are what I consider to be the best bass tone available.
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10-10-2007, 02:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Garmisch, Germany | | | TI flats. Period. |
10-10-2007, 02:16 PM
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10-10-2007, 02:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Indiana | | | I love D'Addario Chromes on my P.
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10-10-2007, 05:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: North East London | | | Rotosound flats.
Consistant, reliable and long lasting.
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10-10-2007, 05:33 PM
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10-15-2007, 05:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Chicago | | | I like the LaBella flats as well. BIG punch. Great for the Pbass
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10-16-2007, 09:39 PM
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10-17-2007, 06:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Blimp City | | | OMG! Ok i have read for a year or more about chromes and i have been tempted to try them. i have tryed Fender flats which are ok and i like Fenders rounds. I use alot of SIT strings i get them dirt cheap never over 20.00 a set since i live in Blimp City where they are made and they last forever with good tone. I dont like their powerflats thou tension is like playing steel rods to me. So i bit dropped the 30.00 and got chromes and put them on my new/used P bass for my new blues and 60's acid rock band WOW! so nice right out of the box tension is almost like a round wound and these suckers are super slick and sound like sex....Yea! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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