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  1. Heavy gauge strings
  2. Strings sound hollow
  3. String suggestions for jazz tone
  4. String advice
  5. Which strings?
  6. 35" Scale...do I need special strings?
  7. colored strings? can you help me ID these?
  8. My band asks me to use rounds
  9. Steve Harris Strings?
  10. stings for Gibson Thunderbird IV
  11. Strange problem with DR neons?
  12. Stupid Question
  13. D'Addario Pro Steels (Why...)
  14. coated/wrapped strings?
  15. From now on, only "Circle K" on my Bass
  16. Naked Strings
  17. Suggestions for New Strings
  18. Sticky Chromes
  19. Strings for precision
  20. Suggestions For Medium Tension, Nickel Strings
  21. Are flats the bass designer fad must-have of 2011?
  22. Odd String Setup
  23. Your Favorite Strings For Acoustic Bass Guitar?
  24. Can Sadowsky flats be strung through body?
  25. Best Buy stocking more strings, at lower prices?
  26. Warwick thumb, nickel or steel strings?
  27. D'Addario nylon teapwound unraveling???
  28. Faulty Strings?
  29. Light VS Heavy, Brand VS Brand, Flat VS Round
  30. Soaking strungs in isoprophl alcohol
  31. History of bass guitar strings?
  32. Dead G string on black beauties?
  33. DR drop-down
  34. Strings for a Godin A4
  35. Suggestions on strings for kingston
  36. Recommend me some strings!
  37. Recomend a 5 st set for my new band....
  38. What strings come standard on a Hoffner Violin Bass?
  39. Help w/Strings, pups, bass quality
  40. New guy to the forum, flat wounds!
  41. Can old strings damage neck?
  42. EB Hybrid Slinky vs DA Semi Rounded
  43. flats on a boring 5 string?
  44. Dean Markley Bass Strings
  45. Dr sunbeams or hibeams?
  46. Downtuning all for tone
  47. Boiling strings in the same pot you cook with is so gross
  48. Anyone know what strings come on ibanez 5 string basses?
  49. Just switched to flats!!! question
  50. Discontinued Signature Strings...need to find new ones
  51. lefthanded string set up for right handed player
  52. Thinking about getting a headless fiver. Is there any variety in double end strings?
  53. High tension strings for MIM 5'er.
  54. 105-50 EB slinkys on jazz bass, standard tuning???
  55. 105-50 EB slinkys on a fender jazz!
  56. Flats with Humbuckers
  57. about TI/Chromes/? flats tones...
  58. What kind of strings give an acoustic bass the most volume?
  59. Webstrings ordering problems?
  60. Hybrid Slinkys on a Jazz??!
  61. Anyone ever try one of these string cleaner tools?
  62. inexpensive flatwounds to try
  63. Sold on Flatwaounds!
  64. I don't need to change strings, but...
  65. What is your favorite gauge of D’addario strings?
  66. ROTOSOUND 99 PIANO STRINGS
  67. Quick Question
  68. 5 string flats suggestions please?
  69. Looking for the perfect precision bass strings
  70. Flat wounds for heavy hard rock with od/fuzz...?
  71. Yes..... Another Flats question
  72. Flatwounds and fret tapping...
  73. Strings die with sweating hands...
  74. Fender Jazz bass with flats...examples?
  75. Searching for the right strings - flats?
  76. Switch from roundwound to flatwound
  77. I hate multi-colored ball ends
  78. Middy flats and scoopy flats
  79. Half Rounds on a 5 string MK Dragonfly
  80. bought some chromes today
  81. 5 string set for a 4 string bass
  82. Largest E string gauge for Mustang RI
  83. Circle K Strings on Fretless
  84. DR flats
  85. Where can I get custom strings?
  86. I've found my strings!
  87. Well, I tried search 0000
  88. 6 String Extra Long Scale Nickel Wound Bass String Sets ... CHEAP?!?
  89. Need Thunderchief String Help
  90. How often should strings be changed?
  91. Quickest 'dying' strings?
  92. Strings
  93. Ibanez SR506 string gauge
  94. Thomastik Infeld Super Alloy (sound samples)
  95. Bassists who use Nylon Tapewounds
  96. Time to start experimenting with string types, so where to start?
  97. Sensitive strings
  98. suggest flatwounds...for rock...help!
  99. MK club custom with tape wounds?
  100. GHS Boomers
  101. 8-string 2-course sets - which strings are octave?
  102. Same Tension, different feel???
  103. ernie ball strings
  104. Help identify my strings
  105. SIT Powersteels
  106. Chromes + BAII
  107. G&L L2500 Thu Body String Length
  108. help please
  109. What kind of strings are these?
  110. DR Sunbeams versus Nickel Lo Riders
  111. web strings
  112. Flats on an acoustic with bridge pins
  113. Just Ordered 760M Jamerson's for . . .
  114. String Length - P-Bass
  115. P Dropping Way Low!
  116. I need a few suggestions for strings
  117. My new dr neons
  118. Thump Grind and Growl...?
  119. String Gauges
  120. String Gauges
  121. Heavy Gauge Rounds That Hold Stiffness
  122. rounds suggestions for a flats player
  123. Short scale strings 8 string bass
  124. fender vs ernie ball flatwound strings
  125. Roundwound vs. pressure wound
  126. Jazz Bass (4-string) BEAD problem
  127. Naked Strings- Best Strings I have ever used!
  128. String advice
  129. Strings for a new player
  130. Why String Fanning on Electrics?
  131. String size and where to buy...
  132. B string on a 4 string
  133. DR Lo-Riders
  134. Flat wound or semi flat wound?
  135. I really WANTED to like Flats
  136. Give me a reason to try lighter gauge Strings
  137. I know it's been asked before, but Drop C...
  138. So did Elixir discontinue super long scale for 6 string?
  139. Trying to find an ideal string: smooth, semi-bright, for downtuning
  140. Bought the wrong strings today.
  141. string gauge for 5th tuning
  142. bend strings before cutting?
  143. Superlong scale on a 34
  144. Fender 9050M .055 vs. Rotosound SH77
  145. I need a string with no/low finger noise and nice twang
  146. Is this really a big deal?
  147. Strings like rotosound 66?
  148. What gauge for drop c?
  149. string recommendation for Guild B-301
  150. Acoustic Strings
  151. Perhaps a Stupid Question, but...
  152. 4 Sets of String 4 Basses
  153. help! coated strings... which ones?
  154. Are my strings the (fretless) problem?
  155. thinking of flats on my ATK?
  156. Help Me Choose the Next Flats for My P Bass
  157. stupid me
  158. Two Part Question
  159. First ever flatwounds, question
  160. d addario expr170 reds?
  161. I'm looking for a single nylon string
  162. Suggestion strings for Soul/R&B
  163. is it the flatwoundedness or the higher tension?
  164. Same String Keeps Rusting
  165. Stock Fender Strings??
  166. Help! dead strings way too often. . .
  167. Denatured Alchohol- too long?
  168. Cheap but good
  169. Strings for whole step D-tune
  170. Strings on Fretless Squier Jazz Bass
  171. Broke my B string
  172. NOOOO!!!! Not This! Not Naked Strings!
  173. String tension
  174. Question to Sadowsky flatwound users.
  175. roundwound 45-105 to flat how to choose the good tension ?
  176. best strings for schecter c4 in drop tuning?
  177. Comparing coated strings DR BB's D'addario EXP and Elixir
  178. Silk on Strings
  179. La Bella Flats Question
  180. Circle K or Naked- String Gauge
  181. Bright flat
  182. Flats on an L-2500
  183. TI flats on your Longhorn?
  184. looking for a string with an emphasized fundamental and good sustain.
  185. Help! No Silk Flatwounds
  186. Octave4Plus Flats
  187. Floppy B string on ATK305
  188. Slapping and popping/funk
  189. Anyone remember these?
  190. When is the last time (if ever)...
  191. Gauge For Drop-tuning 35" Scale?
  192. The cloth things on the end of strings...
  193. DR ID S.O.L.
  194. DR Neon VS Hi-beams?
  195. Strings for an unamplified ABG -- Applause AE-40
  196. string gauge for 6 string in A standard?
  197. Extended Range String Mix
  198. Anyone else have D'Addario Chromes on a fretless?
  199. D'addario & Fender Tapewounds
  200. Light Gauge Strings Adjustment
  201. Low tension strings?
  202. Fender Flats - Light--Medium Light--Medium
  203. Just snapped my G string!
  204. Which Strings to sound more like Tool bassist?
  205. String set recognition
  206. Thomastik Jazz Flats...2+2 issues...AGAIN?!
  207. Strimmer wire as strings?
  208. P-bass: String gauge (Light vs. Heavy) - your personal description of tones?
  209. Pyramid string set confusion
  210. ??? THUMPY-EST Round Wound 50-110 SET?
  211. String Tension for Light Gauge Flats?
  212. Changing to flats
  213. Ordering a set of Naked Strings for my 6 string
  214. Hard time with chromes
  215. please delete!
  216. Complete this sentence
  217. 6 string- E to E set
  218. Are these guages crazy? Am I crazy?
  219. Thomastik JF324
  220. String Gauge & Intonation
  221. 50's (Replica) MIM Precision and flats
  222. Action
  223. EDIT: please delete
  224. Worried about getting wrong gauge!
  225. Anyone heard from Skip @ CircleK?
  226. Help - versatile strings, full, deep and round sound?
  227. Need less Zing from my strings ...
  228. we don't need no stinking strings
  229. Fluro Strings
  230. How does one know when it's "time" to change strings?
  231. I've Gone Flat!
  232. Ken Smith Burners vs. Dunlop Nickels?
  233. DR Black Beauties
  234. Lets play NAME THOSE STRINGS
  235. 12 string ERB and flatwound ERB sets at Octave 4 Plus
  236. Sadowsky Black Label Flatwound Strings
  237. Fender pure nickel low output and hig tension
  238. New/old style Fender NPS 8255's : a stack of them
  239. Strings for drop B on a 5 string?
  240. Best strings for recording (5 string SR)
  241. ernie ball stainless strings?
  242. Mild GC rant - No SS only nickel 5 string sets
  243. Brightest flats
  244. Piano sound
  245. G# on a 4-string 34'. Am I crazy?
  246. What gauge strings would you use for a G# standard tuning on a 5 string bass?
  247. Rotos- Nickel?
  248. stainless steel kitchen wipes instead of boiling?
  249. Appropriate string upgrade? please help
  250. Strings to add more bottom to Stingray