I wanted to try some flatwounds on my Yamaha TRB6PII Fretless to take some of the edge off on the peizo tone.
My band tunes down 1 whole tone (guitars are in D standard). My bass is tuned accordingly ADGCFBb. Currently I have some stainless Ken Smith strings on there that are about... 6 months old? They're finally starting to settle in tonewise but its still too much treble. The current gauges is something around 35-142. As a comparison, on my fretted bass, I use Kalium 32-143 (Or whatever the balanced tension is that ends in 143.. considering going up to 150, actually).
Of course, no flats come in anything bigger than 135, and the ones that do are tapewound which is lower tension than a 135 that's roundwound.
Do I have ANY options or am I SOL?
My band tunes down 1 whole tone (guitars are in D standard). My bass is tuned accordingly ADGCFBb. Currently I have some stainless Ken Smith strings on there that are about... 6 months old? They're finally starting to settle in tonewise but its still too much treble. The current gauges is something around 35-142. As a comparison, on my fretted bass, I use Kalium 32-143 (Or whatever the balanced tension is that ends in 143.. considering going up to 150, actually).
Of course, no flats come in anything bigger than 135, and the ones that do are tapewound which is lower tension than a 135 that's roundwound.
Do I have ANY options or am I SOL?
