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View Poll Results: What are your favorite flats? | |
D'Addario Chromes
|    | 25 | 26.60% | |
TI Jazz Flats
|    | 27 | 28.72% | |
Ernie Ball Flats
|    | 3 | 3.19% | |
DR Hi-Beam flats
|    | 6 | 6.38% | |
Sadowsky
|    | 2 | 2.13% | |
Other? Please specify.
|    | 19 | 20.21% | |
I play carrots.
| | 12 | 12.77% |
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03-12-2007, 08:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Minocqua area, Wisconsin | | | Your Favorite Flats?
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What are your favorite flatwounds? I'm looking for some for a fretted four I have, and also for a fretless hollowbody that I hope to have in the near future. I've heard good things about chromes and TI's obviously, but what are some ups and downs to these brands? |
03-12-2007, 08:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NW Indiana | | | Try out Laklands flats....honestly they are very good..
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03-12-2007, 08:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Syracuse, NY | | | I voted for Chromes. I have them on my P-bass. To my ears, they're the right mix of thump and definition... just bright enough, for me.
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03-12-2007, 08:49 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | I'm really interested in trying out Hi-Beam flats, but that would involve changing strings, which I hate to do on my fretless. |
03-12-2007, 09:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: So Cal | | | I voted Chromes for now, but I would like to A/B them with DR flats sometime since I love the DR rounds |
03-12-2007, 09:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: bloomfield, nj | | | chromes
really nice strings, not flabby, pretty bright, but with a nice decay and hollow thumping sound, and good definition
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03-13-2007, 01:22 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Horsham, PA (Philly suburb) | | | To me, there are two in the "fantastic" category: Chromes, and Labella Deep Talkin Bass flats |
03-13-2007, 03:56 AM
| | | | I don't like flats. Not dissin 'em. Just not my thing.
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03-13-2007, 06:24 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Personally, I like GHS strings. Boomers and Brite Flats get the job done for me, and I get to keep both testicles too! |
03-13-2007, 06:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Blackburn Lancashire | | | Labella 760FL's mediums - beautiful deep tone, crisp highs and good sustain on my P-bass Lyte.
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03-13-2007, 10:05 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Harkte Amps | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Nashville, TN | | | No SIT Powerflat? That's what I'm really diggin' on my jazz for the last few weeks. Good tension, not too high....the only downside I've found...only if you're looking for a true true flatwound thump...is the sound a little more like groundwounds to me than flats. They have great definition and tone, but not as thumpy as, say Jamerson flats, and not as zingy or bright as rounds. All in all, the perfect balance for the QP pups in my jazz. Helps balance out and mellow the sound slightly. |
03-13-2007, 11:09 AM
| | <- Not me I just like looking at her | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Cable Wi | | | LaBella 760M Love 'em |
03-15-2007, 07:04 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Phila,Pa. | |  Flats!
LaBella's. I also like Chromes too.
Im dying to know how the DR flats sound. |
03-15-2007, 07:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Denton, TX | | | People who voted TI, think they must be better cause they spent more on them. you sad brainwashed capitalistic bastards,
even though they are pretty good, if you don't mind the tension. |
03-15-2007, 07:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by PocketGroove82  People who voted TI, think they must be better cause they spent more on them. you sad brainwashed capitalistic bastards,
even though they are pretty good, if you don't mind the tension. | 
Who let the troll in? 
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03-15-2007, 08:36 AM
|  | Glutenous | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: San Diego | | | I tend to vacillate a bit on which is my "favorite". Right now I've got Fender flats on my P, and they're always in the top 3. Chromes and Ernies are certainly cool as well.
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03-15-2007, 10:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: CO | | | In a group where people move $2000 basses because they do not have the right sound, I find it hard to believe that everyone is brain washed by a $40 set of flats.
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03-15-2007, 10:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tucson,AZ | | | TI's only flats I use!
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03-15-2007, 11:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Atlanta, Ga | | labella jamerson flats...really thick gauge...but workin on upright a lot now, so its cake now baby 
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03-16-2007, 01:32 AM
|  | Looking for Opportunities to Create Harmony | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Vancouver, BC Canada | | | Dont forget the Fender 9050M's. Decent flat. Cheap price. High tension (= low action).
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