Darkest sounding stainless steel strings

Have you considered pressurewounds or even flatwounds?

 

DR lo-riders are my guess, but that's a pretty tough item nail. SS strings are going to be bright no matter what. It's just a matter of which ones "wear" the fastest. I've played a lot of SS strings, and I felt the DR low riders were the least "zingy", but still sounded awesome.

 

Also try labella stainless (used to be called hard rockin steel). To me they are very un-steel-like. Feel great. Not too pingy. Age well and last long time with decent mids for steel.

 

ditto on SS flats:

 

DR DDT's and Kaliums are both darker sounding stainless steel strings, DDT's I think are much darker than the Lo Riders.

 

Agree. Love my DDT's. They are darker than most SS.

 

Yeah, low riders are definitely a bit darker than some others. And DRs have good balance to the feel, from string to string.

Rotosound makes a steel pressurewound, called the solo bass 55. They are pretty much less zingy swing bass 66. And SB66 get nice and dark, over time. I bet the solo55 are great.

 

I just came across these the other day at the store. Not sure what the tone is like but they are SS....

 

Flats may be what you're looking for. Otherwise pure nickel wounds may serve the goal. Lowering the pickups may also help achieving the tone you're after.