Ernie Ball Stainless Flats

[GwenOnBass]

EB Group 4 .040 - .096 sounded so good to my ear they stayed on the StingRay for nearly five years. It was a sad day when I pulled them (but pull them I did!) for brighter strings. My needs for that bass changed <shrug>

 

[PBandJazzBass]

I have a set of the Group 2.5’s on one of my J basses and think they sound great on that bass. I feel like they sit somewhere between D’Addario Chromes and La Bella’s as far as tone.

 

[TomB]

I have a set of the Group 2.5’s on one of my J basses and think they sound great on that bass. I feel like they sit somewhere between D’Addario Chromes and La Bella’s as far as tone.

I agree with that ^^^ in re tone, but I think the EB’s are just a tad more flexible than either. …not Dunlop-flexible; closer to DTF’s than they are to Chromes.

 

[coryr1000]

I put a set of Ernie Ball Cobalt Slinky (45, 65, 80,100) on my AM Pro II P bass a week ago and I really like them. I've been playing for 49 years and I have never used flat wounds. The first bass I ever bought was a 1972 Musicmaster and it had black nylon wrapped flats on it. I changed to Roto sounds immediately as I loved Entwistle's sound and I have always used round wounds (stopped using Rotos a while ago because of too may dead strings right out of a new pack). I don't know what took me so long to try flats but I'll be trying other brands next string change for sure.

 

[basslust]

A bit of a zombie thread, but do you have any updates here? I've been curious about group flats too but the cobalts left such a bad impression on me I'm hesitant to try another ernie ball string. You're the only other person I've found that brought up the arm hair snagging feature I hated in the cobalts!

Sorry for the late reply... I did not end up trying them, but I'm glad to learn that I'm not the only one out there that went through this!

 

[TomB]

Sorry for the late reply... I did not end up trying them, but I'm glad to learn that I'm not the only one out there that went through this!

I’d need to check back upthread to see if this was mentioned already, but the surface texture of Group flats is much smoother than the Cobalts.