DOES ANYONE HERE USE ROUNDWOUNDS????

[Ric5]

DOES ANYONE HERE USE ROUNDWOUNDS????

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Yep Roundwounds 100% of the time on all of my basses ...

 

[/\/\3phist0]

Rounds. Tapes. Flats. Pressure wounds.... All diff basses "like" diff strings

 

[Mousekillaz]

exclusively

 

[Duckwater]

I switch between them, but I haven't used rounds in a good while. I like a more percussive sound out of my bass, but still with a of brightness. The stiffness of flats also lets me get my action very low while still being able to play aggressively when I want to.

 

[bassistjoe93]

Use rounds exclusively. I have yet to meet another bass player that plays flats. I think they sound like crap 90% of the time, but I do have flats (Chromes) on a fretless Jazz that sounds great, but I don't get to play it often.

 

[mmbongo]

Use rounds exclusively. I have yet to meet another bass player that plays flats. I think they sound like crap 90% of the time, but I do have flats (Chromes) on a fretless Jazz that sounds great, but I don't get to play it often.

Brings up a good point...I've never met anyone who actually plays flats!

 

[ddhm]

All round always.

 

[Clammy]

Been using round wounds since I started playing bass.

Cheers!

 

[pizzazombie]

Most bassists use rounds but the fact that flat lovers always have to snob around might make you think the opposite.

 

[topo morto]

Rounds are for people who care how their bass sounds.

Flats are for those who realised that no-one cares how their bass sounds so you might as well play something smoother on the frets and the fingers.

 

[WiflB]

Roundwounds for me, love the tone you get from my stainless steel DR fat beams

 

[Bassmanbob]

I've never had flats on any of my basses.

 

[jtwill]

I use both. ...I have recently decided I prefer rounds

 

[jmcorn]

I use rounds but have a set of flats on the way to try out. I bought them used so I will not mind trashing them if I don't like them.

 

[WalterBush]

I use roundwounds (Roto 66's, like half the planet apparently) on every bass I've got except my fretless.

Going by my local market, I get the impression that most kids these days don't know flats exist, and if they do they have a vague idea that they were used by bassists a hundred years ago.

Every now and then we get a snowbird coming through looking for flats, or I see some church's bass on my repair desk with a set that's older than my children, but for the most part that's it.

Maybe it's just that flatwound players are more vocal about their love of flats than roundwound players are about rounds, kind of like Apple users

 

[Sheffield]

Brings up a good point...I've never met anyone who actually plays flats!

Completely true! The only person I know who uses flats is a guitarist. Who thinks he's Pat Metheny. It's kind of sad really.

 

[SolarMan]

I don't think I have ever seen a Flats Bashing thread onTB.

It is long overdue!

 

[topo morto]

Playing flats is the equivalent of shaving your pubes - seen as the done thing in certain circles but not what most people in the world do.

 

[Mikhail1]

Rounds are for people who care how their bass sounds.

Flats are for those who realised that no-one cares how their bass sounds so you might as well play something smoother on the frets and the fingers.

Playing flats is the equivalent of shaving your pubes - seen as the done thing in certain circles but not what most people in the world do.

OUCH!!! Hit me below the belt. Twice! No, really I agree, I have not seen anyone locally using flats live. I think in the real world, flats are used more by the studio people that we rarely know. In my experience, rounds just seem to be the standard live sound that we have grown to expect. Plus I think rounds just sound better live.

 

[dkelley]

I've done a fair bit of session work over the years... There is a myth that flats are dominant in the studio. Sure they might get used, but it's not something I personally am asked for often.