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02-15-2010, 06:44 PM
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How many of you do this and do you like the sound? I want to try out flatwounds again, but I use a pick a lot so I'm hoping you can get some good sounds with this combination.
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02-15-2010, 06:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Lawrence, KS | | Quote:
Originally Posted by paf77  How many of you do this and do you like the sound? I want to try out flatwounds again, but I use a pick a lot so I'm hoping you can get some good sounds with this combination. | When I started playing, that's the combination I used...at the time and where I was...round wounds? Nope. The right EQ and system...BIG, cutting sound. Very bold, clean, BIG sound. Especially with a heavy (1.0 mm+) pick. No "clack" by using Dunlop "blacks"..I use them now. 
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02-15-2010, 06:53 PM
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02-15-2010, 06:57 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | A pick and flats is one of my very fave bass sounds, espcially if you add in a p pickup!  |
02-15-2010, 07:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Mishawaka, IN | | | I play with a pick on flats all the time, and really dig the tone. I actually just recently put some rounds back on to experiment with the different tonal possibilities, but switched right back to the flats. I get a very clean punch without all the twang. Of course, that also has an awful lot to do with my pickups and they way I have my amp dialed in. |
02-15-2010, 07:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: new jersey shore | | | Flats and a Pick since 1968.
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02-15-2010, 07:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Québec | | | If you use a pick with flats you will tear a whole in the space time continuum. |
02-15-2010, 07:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Michigan | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ugly_bassplayer If you use a pick with flats you will tear a whole in the space time continuum. | yup its happend to me twice lol no it sounds good tho |
02-15-2010, 07:24 PM
| | | | Pick with flats is the bee's knees!
Recommended by Carol Kaye no less. Think she uses very heavy picks.
It's a good solid sound with as much attack as you want, but with more 'tone' and less grit than rounds. |
02-26-2010, 05:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Outside Providence | | Flats and a pick on my fretless........SWEET! 
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02-26-2010, 05:28 AM
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02-26-2010, 05:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: St. Louis | | | I agree with everyone else. So does Macca.
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02-26-2010, 05:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: saint michael ,mn | | | very common. also try "felt" picks. very interesting tone.
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02-26-2010, 05:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Germany | | | I love to play my Thunderbird witch a pick an flats on it. You get a big and massive sound with an earthshaking bottom end! I'm using Rotosund standart gauge flats and Dunlop blacks. |
02-26-2010, 06:00 AM
| | | | If I remember correctly, Tiran Porter of the Doobie Brothers used a P with flats and a pick. Great up-front sound. |
02-26-2010, 06:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Swampman Cory | Lakland has the best sound clips, this one makes me smile every time I hear it, it should be a jingle or something. 
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02-26-2010, 07:26 AM
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02-26-2010, 09:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NSW Australia | | | I believe Cliff Williams of AC/DC uses flats and a pick too. Not the most technical of bassists, but I think he has a great sound.
I've converted to flatwounds and I've been teaching myself how to play with a pick recently, I think it's a great sound. I just have trouble controlling things with a pick compared to fingerstyle, so i probably need to work on the technique a bit more. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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