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11-08-2012, 08:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Earth | | | I have played Boomers for a long time. I think they're perfectly fine NPS strings. IMO, they're as good as anything else out there - I just think some people are overly & needlessly picky.
I also like D'Addario XLs. |
11-08-2012, 08:37 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Newark,De. | | | Been using them for years,and they are still my first choice in strings! |
11-08-2012, 03:08 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Mike Lull Custom Basses | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: SLC, Utah -USA- | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Root 5  I have played Boomers for a long time. I think they're perfectly fine NPS strings. IMO, they're as good as anything else out there....I also like D'Addario XLs. | +1, but D'Addario XL's are my first choice, GHS Boomers are a very close second.
I find Boomers to be fatter sounding than XL's, so I string my brighter sounding basses with them.
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11-10-2012, 08:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Earth | | | I agree, too. XLs are a brighter sounding string; they both sound great, Boomers & XLs - they just have their own sonic spectrum in which to shine. |
11-11-2012, 06:15 PM
| | | | GHS boomers are good middle of road roundwounds. They last as long as any other roundwound I like. 4 to 4 and half months before wanting new set. And decent price to.
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11-11-2012, 06:41 PM
| | | | I have been using them on my Fenders forever. Love them. They don't break for me... but I don't play that hard on them either (classic rock, no slap and pull to speak of). Not as bright as some, ture, but that is what EQ is for! |
11-11-2012, 06:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere in the maritimes. | | | They're my go-to on a 4 string. For my main bass (a 5) it's Circle K.
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11-11-2012, 09:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: South Calif. | | | I've played flats exclusively for 8 yrs. now, but when I used rounds I loved the Boomers....great bottom end and no tinniness. |
11-18-2012, 11:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: 48313 | | | Been using Boomers for years. Great value, Michigan based company, and they lose that new string zing pretty quickly. Definitely not for those who like a string that stays bright, but great for those that like a worn in roundwound sound. Like halfrounds but with more mid high definition.
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11-18-2012, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: N.H. | | | I like em. Compared them to D'Addario's Medium nickels, still like GHS Boomers.
Great price & available everywhere. |
11-19-2012, 12:35 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | Used to use Boomers on my bass for a little while in the 80's, but switched to D'addarios because I thought they sounded about the same and were cheaper  Very good string, though. Nothing at all wrong with them.
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11-19-2012, 01:22 AM
| | | | Not sure if any help but recently watched a rig rundown for flea and his tech puts ghs boomers on his guitars, however he changes them every day. I have been thinking of trying a set myself and found everyones opinions very helpful. |
11-20-2012, 06:03 AM
|  | Ratchet | | Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Merritt Island | | | Boomers and nothing else. I wish everything else was such an easy decision for me...... |
12-31-2012, 10:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Southern Cali | | | i use two Yamaha BB series Basses with P&J pickups and string them both with Ghs bass Boomer Medium 45-105. They sound great and have that growl to them that i love. Clean the strings every once in a while with ghs fast fret and they will last for a long time. Plus they really make you punch through the mix! |
12-31-2012, 10:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Shellharbour, NSW, Australia | | | .
I bought a set and tried them on a couple of my basses.
They're not my "thing" I'm afraid.
To each his own.
BTW, the "Boomer" name is suited perfectly to these strings IMO. They certainly boom!
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12-31-2012, 11:13 PM
|  | Hip No Ties | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New York, NY | | When I first started playing during the mid-70s, bass strings were not nearly so numerous or so widely available as they are now. You had GHS, D'Addarios, Rotosounds, Fenders, plus a handful of off brands - and that was pretty much it. No DRs. No Dunlops. No TIs. And certainly no JustStrings.com or BassStringsOnline.com. 
GHS Boomers were my first very roundwound string. I used 'em extensively on my very first bass guitar - my '66 Fender Precision - and they truly rocked hard for all the great (now classic) rock I was playing in those days, i.e. Foghat, Aerosmith, ZZ Top, Doobie Brothers, James Gang, Boston, Thin Lizzy, UFO, etc. So I certainly have fond memories of them. 
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