roundwound bass string

Love the grippy, rough feel of steels (I'm weird, I know). But am very fond of the warmth of nickel. For reference, I find all the DR nickels (sunbeams, lorider, pure blues) way too smooth for my taste. XLs are kinda my go to at the moment, but looking for roundwounds with a little more grit...

I just bought a Fender Jazz Bass that came with flat wound strings. My current Squier Jazz Bass has round wounds that I put on last year. I'd like to switch the strings, moving the flats to the Squier and the rounds to the Fender. Do I need to set up each bass from scratch, or should I leave...

I'm sure nobody disagrees that rotosound strings sound wonderful, however, does anyone else feel like the strings are way rougher on fingers than other roundwounds? In comparison to other strings, I find that my fingers move significantly slower on rotosound roundwound strings. It's like...

Hey fellas, in your opinion, what are the most comfortable strings you've played with a bright tone? The best SOUNDING strings I've ever tried would have to be the Rotosound Swing Bass strings, but they are a bit rough on the fingers. In terms of comfort, I would have to go with D'addario Black...

A while ago I bought an aerodyne jazz bass second hand. It came with black roundwound strings and looked awesome - these weren’t coated and unfortunately one of them broke. I replaced with black beauties and absolutely hated them, and can’t find any non-coated black strings anywhere. From...

These are 3 sets of used roundwounds and a brand new Ernie Ball bass strings. $15 shipped. The used sets are from a jazz/precision bass.

To put a new spin on a beaten horse, what is it about flats you prefer over rounds and what genre of music do you typically play that they work well for? For example: I play rounds. I play in a reggae/punk/rock band and a few cover bands. I like to use a lot of effects (specifically OD, but...

Finished re-string and re-neck on my New Old Stock Behringer 4-string bass. Here's the original Behringer neck. Bought it at Denio's flea market for $75. Cleaned it up and it sounded nice. But brutal amateur luthier torquing had ruined the neck's truss rod adjuster nut. A new Canadian maple...

The most popular Roundwound bass string ever. Rotosound was the first string company to produce this kind of string. Introduced in 1962 it changed the sound of the instrument instantly. The favourite string of many players including Billy Sheehan, John Paul Jones and Geddy Lee. Available in all...