Coloured Strings. Yay or Nay?

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Ok if they're black. I love Black Beauties on my all black 80s Carvin fretless. Black nylon tapewounds on a few. Other than that, I normally wouldn't use colored strings. Might try the "blue on black" just for fun. The bright colors and mixed sets perhaps for special occasion gigs (if I were ever to have gigs again) where such silliness would fit.

 

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In the right setting, red can be kind of nice....

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I can see going that way in the right kind of setting. Doubt I'd ever be in a Kiss cover band, at this point in my life, though.

 

[hopsbb]

I've had Black Beauties on an old black and white p bass I used to have.I currently have DR cool blues on a bass and it looks pretty cool.I got no problem with them.Think its a nice change from the same old same old.

 

[GoLeafsGo]

I put black tapewounds on my silver Jag. They do look great on it, and the feel and sound are real nice too. But plain flats on the Gretsch and the P.

 

[Smooth_bass88]

In the right setting, red can be kind of nice....

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See, now that's neat looking (although I'd pass on the red strings). There aren't enough pickguard-less p basses in the world.

 

[gary mitchell]

Candy Apple Metal Flake Tangerine Orange Maybe, but nope not for me. I use Fender Flat Wounds 25 bucks, good enough for this old fart.

 

[JakobT]

Whatever floats your boat. They're not for me, though.

 

[Hugh Person]

Blacks fit everything

 

[Bob-I]

I match my strings to my underwear.

 

[BassHappy]

I can see going that way in the right kind of setting. Doubt I'd ever be in a Kiss cover band, at this point in my life, though.

Hey Bholder

Kiss cover band? LOL...

Actually it was designed to go with my 1929 Ford Model A Hot Rod...The strings match the strings on the grill shell. My restorer painted the body and the same pinstriper striped it:

The bass goes to the car shows with me. For me, that's definitely the "right setting".

 

[Son of Wobble]

Doubt I'd ever be in a Kiss cover band, at this point in my life, though.

Nonsense, never too late, let's do it. I'll even be Ace so you can get your Gene on.

 

[SteveV74]

I love DR strings, they are the best, Especially the black beauties and neon colors, my Schecter has a set of red devils on them right now,from bassstringsonlie.com of course!

 

[bassliner50]

Nay.

 

[G On Bass]

I think coloured strings suit certain basses, Like my Black parts bass really becomes eye catching when i put my Neon Orange strings on. Was just wondering the general opinion on them

If they made the strings I like in different colors then maybe, but I'd never use them purely for visuals over tone. And I don't see TI ever making Jazz flats in neon pink.

 

[eloann]

Played a buddy's bass with red DR's a couple days ago and they're just like I remembered having had green ones for a while on an all-white bass. Looked super funky with the matching acid green knobs but I never liked the sound or feel of coated strings. Unless the gig is disco-funk covers wearing pink dresses I'll stay away.
Black tapewounds are a different animal - but then again, black ain't a colour.

 

[rtslinger]

Yay, use them all the time Dr Neons multi color pack.

 

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[Gaolee]

The only coated strings I have ever tried were Black Beauties. They sounded just fine for me. If neon or other color strings sound like them, then given the right circumstances, the answer is Yea!

 

[Son of Wobble]

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They are certainly a fail-proof conversation starter, yes? At least one compliment per gig, right? I am just split-balling here, and try
not to conjecture on this site, but I am doing so with confidence in this case and thus betting on your anecdotal affirmation of my poor man's bet as to the impact these strings would have on a crowd.

For those that argue they are garish - showbiz is garish. Garish works! Garish makes people look. Play these strings in a strip club and you'll have strippers hanging off your biceps. Or so I bet.

 

[millsbass5]

My basses are, much, much too manly for strings of color. That'd be akin to me wearing fingernail polish (Can't you see it now? 6'5", 238lbs., w/polished fingernails?). My basses would electrocute the piss out of me if strings of color graced the fingerboard.

And besides, some of the places that I've gigged, they'd probably string your ass up to a tree, with said strings, right outside the bar. Ahh..... Whatta life in WV.