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Does anyone know what strings these are?
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Have you tried the genuine D'Addarios to see if they sound at least as good as the knockoffs?
Fender strings have colored ball ends too, but the order on your bass doesn't correspond to their standard set. It's strange that the E and A seem to have the same ends in your pic...
Agreed.
D'Addario = brass-red-black-green (E-G)
Fender = brass-red-chrome-green (E-G) (also made by D'Addario)
Purple = Low B's.
Red-red-green-purple = ???
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Out of curiosity, what ball end does D'A use for a C string?
Meaning, maybe this is a 30-50-70-90 set that the (I'm guessing) previous owner of the bass bought from singles? Would explain the two red balls, as they could both be A strings, depending on the set used.
Meaning, maybe this is a 30-50-70-90 set that the (I'm guessing) previous owner of the bass bought from singles? Would explain the two red balls, as they could both be A strings, depending on the set used.
This is a very valid point...
I couldn't find the color for the high C bass string specifically, but looking at the color-coding for the electric guitar, purple is in fact the next higher color from the green.
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Could they have been strings from different string sets (2 E's of different gauges from different sets)? I'm grasping here...at straws--string-shaped straws.
EDIT: Jon Moody beat me to it.
EDIT: Jon Moody beat me to it.
What color silk? I have a set of red silk (maybe boomers or rotos) with red balls on the E & A
Edit: sorry, they are rotos and the red balls are on the E&G
Edit: sorry, they are rotos and the red balls are on the E&G
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All the singles I have ever bought, from whatever company, and I purchase many singles for all reasons: custom gauges for sets, extra E strings to keep them fresh from thump, etc., had and have the standard brass ball end, no colors. I agree that substituting out strings out of different sets for different applications may result in the balls being the same color. Something in the back of my brain also is telling me there may be other companies that use colored ball ends, but of course, in a different order (just like different pickup manufacturers have different orders to what they call the red, green, black, white leads).
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Oh boy, is this going to turn into a blue dress-white dress meme type of deal?
