Your lack of understanding about a basic setup is what made you think that the strings saved your bass.
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Did ernie ball flatwounds save my bass ?
- Thread starter GodPlayedBass
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Ah yes. The IRWC. As a middle groundsman, the Flat Wound World Order are just as evil in suppressing the truth that Rounds have JUST AS MANY benefits but in different amounts. Besides. Flats started the war. Just saying...
Who started what war? Flats were the first strings available for electric bass for several years. Rounds invaded and won the market, and now we are now in the "revenge of the flats" era.
Flats didn't actually save your bass. One or two things happened; as has been pointed out, the EB flats were enough higher tension to flex the neck slightly more than the rounds, increasing string height and neck relief at the same time. The other circumstance that might have contributed a little is the difference in flexibility of the two string types. The rounds may be more flexible, resulting in a little more string excursion from the force exerted by you. The flats are likely stiffer, so they would have a little less excursion from the same force exerted by you. This would result in the rounds hitting the frets in front of where you have the string fretted, & the flats not hitting the frets in front of where you have the string fretted.
In a much more summarized explanation, your truss rod and bridge saddle height were set wrong for the rounds, and just happened to be set close to right for the flats.
In a much more summarized explanation, your truss rod and bridge saddle height were set wrong for the rounds, and just happened to be set close to right for the flats.
Ah yes. The IRWC. As a middle groundsman, the Flat Wound World Order are just as evil in suppressing the truth that Rounds have JUST AS MANY benefits but in different amounts. Besides. Flats started the war. Just saying...
Honestly i dont see the point in rounds after playing the cobalt flats. I normally play with 110 guage on round wounds to get drop tuning. With these flats, im playing a lighter guage (105) and getting just as low, which i could never do with a 105 roundwound set. Im actually surprised.
Honestly, unless you're slapping a lot on that bass, there isn't a reason to ever play rounds again! Also, don't pay too much attention to folks saying your setup technique is off. Some strings just simply work with some basses. I've been doing my own setups, and using Sadowsky flats for more than a decade. I tried Dunlop flats and I just couldn't get them set up correctly. I put a set of Sadowsky's on there and bam! they were set up perfectly.
I got one too on my Epiphone EB-3, and i really like the sound of it. Really bright but has a nice feel
