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02-24-2008, 12:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sweden | |  Where Find Bass Strings w RED fabric at end?
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Looking for Long scale Bass strings with some kind of Red fabric wrapping at the top ends.
Anyone know where to get them?
Last edited by Metallion : 02-24-2008 at 01:13 PM.
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02-24-2008, 01:14 PM
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02-24-2008, 01:15 PM
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02-24-2008, 01:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fredonia, NY | | | ghs roundwounds i guess... but they sound pretty crappy... you should never buy a string because of it's looks... |
02-24-2008, 02:08 PM
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02-24-2008, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by mellowgerman  ghs roundwounds i guess... but they sound pretty crappy... you should never buy a string because of it's looks... | I like how they sound...
and maybe he's looking for the brand of the strings he's using right now, thought of that?
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02-24-2008, 02:13 PM
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02-24-2008, 02:26 PM
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02-24-2008, 02:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Hampshire | | | My LaBella Deep Talkin' Bass (760FL) flats have red thread wraps. They are long scale and as mentioned before I ordered them from Just Strings.
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02-24-2008, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by bass_fish I like how they sound...
and maybe he's looking for the brand of the strings he's using right now, thought of that? | indeed i have good sir, i just tossed in my two cents there at the end. maybe he actually agrees and realizes that i didn't intend it to offend, but rather just for it to be a situational tidbit of advice  |
02-24-2008, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by GeoffByrne Most Rotosounds. | +1
I was going to suggest Roto Swings. |
02-24-2008, 02:52 PM
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02-24-2008, 02:54 PM
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02-24-2008, 03:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: New England | | | First thing that came to mind for me was Rotosounds. I have used and an always liked them - they used to go dead a little faster than some other strings - but that can be a good thing too. |
02-24-2008, 03:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Bronx, NY | | | Most of the bass strings that I've seen with any kind of fabric at the top ends have red fabric, except for GHS flatwounds. But I don't see why it makes a difference...
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02-24-2008, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by mellowgerman you should never buy a string because of it's looks... | i'm gonna buy some DR's because they're pink. seriously.
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02-24-2008, 03:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Now in Leicestershire. | | TI Jazz Flats have red wraps ... they're on my fretless Precision, as per the avatar. 
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02-24-2008, 04:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sweden | | | I got some of that look loose, Roundwound but by unknown maker.
Decent 'work' quality would do.
If there are some Groundwound and Flatwound options too, that would be great.
Heard about Taper, how do they feel?
Probably will use them on a fretless. |
02-24-2008, 04:19 PM
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02-24-2008, 04:21 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | | the stock strings on my epiphone gothic thunderbird IV had red wraps, no idea what they were though. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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