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#341
I'm still wondering. D'addario makes a Chromes short scale set, but not in the wuss gauges I like. They said they were going to start making a wuss gauge set and never did. And I thought they would start offering a 40 G when they started selling singles, and singles sales started yesterday and they never did that, either. Oh well ;) So if you like wuss gauges, it's either LaBellas or bust from what I can see.
 
#342
I've always heard that LaBella is as close to (if not exactly) what is put on in the factory on Danos.

So when I replace strings in mine, I stick to LaBella. Doesn't really help you at all I suppose, because I like to have a couple basses for brightness.

Oh well, just some trivia I suppose.
 
#343
JimmyM said:
The Labella sets I've played have this very piercing high end that sounds exactly like this:



A great sound sometimes, but not what I want to hear all the time. I was wondering which was brighter, a dead set of XL's or the LaBellas, and I'm pretty well convinced now that the LaBellas are brighter. So I won't be getting them.
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That's not at all what my Labella's sound like.
 
#349
Jimmy i just put a set of 39-96 with guitar size tuner ends (special order from labella) they make them for 30 and 34 scale danos. they sound great on my korean DC bass and just feel like the right guage. can't go bigger as they say.... they also have a set just for longhorns IIRC. may be lighter

imperial guitar in newburgh actually put me in touch with the labella guy.
 
#351
jumbodbassman said:
pick by the bridge and a double bass. i am sure he was going for that aweful sound. FWIW i have found chromes to be brighter than labella in general.
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I don't pick and like Jimmy, I'm not really interested in that tone. But my point is that my Labella's sound a lot more like the sample I provided above than the one Jimmy did. Again, I switched to the LaBella's following Bob Babbitt's advice - I was going for the deep Motown sound.
 
#352
I wonder if that dude playing Living Colour would have sounded more like Bert Kaempfert's bassist had he been using a pick, though ;) I kind of hear that character in the tone as well.

And I hear a lot of people talking about the brightness of Chromes but I honestly don't hear it except when they're new. They're kind of an upper middy string, I'll give you that. But bright treble, not so much. At least that's how I hear them.

I don't know...I want to like the LaBellas because I'd like flats on the Dano. But it's such a bright bass to begin with, and I know I like it with the dead XL's even though I'd rather be feeling flats. But that tic tac thing is so pronounced on my Fender with LaBellas and I want my Longhorn to be more than a tic tac bass.

What can I tell you? I'm wacky. But I do appreciate some dialogue here finally, even though I had to beat it out of you all with a stick!
 
#353
JimmyM said:
I wonder if that dude playing Living Colour would have sounded more like Bert Kaempfert's bassist had he been using a pick, though ;) I kind of hear that character in the tone as well.

And I hear a lot of people talking about the brightness of Chromes but I honestly don't hear it except when they're new. They're kind of an upper middy string, I'll give you that. But bright treble, not so much. At least that's how I hear them.

I don't know...I want to like the LaBellas because I'd like flats on the Dano. But it's such a bright bass to begin with, and I know I like it with the dead XL's even though I'd rather be feeling flats. But that tic tac thing is so pronounced on my Fender with LaBellas and I want my Longhorn to be more than a tic tac bass.

What can I tell you? I'm wacky. But I do appreciate some dialogue here finally, even though I had to beat it out of you all with a stick!
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Jimmy I don't own a Dano but I've used Labella flat wounds for years and can't imagine anyone describing them as bright. Did the sample I posted sound bright to you?
 
#354
No Pedro, it did sound thumpy and fat. And LaBellas do sound thumpy and fat as well as have that top end tic tac sound to me. What can I tell you? That's what I got out of them. They work great on my Realistic violin bass and don't sound bright, I will say that, but that's a very dark sounding bass that I always have to dump a lot of treble into it to make it sound right. And in other people's hands they sound great. Just didn't work for me on a Fender.
 
#355
JimmyM said:
No Pedro, it did sound thumpy and fat. And LaBellas do sound thumpy and fat as well as have that top end tic tac sound to me. What can I tell you? That's what I got out of them. They work great on my Realistic violin bass and don't sound bright, I will say that, but that's a very dark sounding bass that I always have to dump a lot of treble into it to make it sound right. And in other people's hands they sound great. Just didn't work for me on a Fender.
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(Shrugs) not sure what to say. I don't know why your Fender bass and Labellas sound bright where others don't.
 
#357
Sweet! Found them!

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These were done on my P Lyte when it had Duncan Quarter Pounders on it using only the P pickup. First one's Chromes, second is LaBellas, both in 40-95 gauges or thereabouts...LaBella's gauges aren't so squared off as that but it's the equivalent set.
 

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