Flats on a vintage or a vintage reissue Precision Bass. I love that sound. Then again, a P-Bass sounds great with roundwound strings too!
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Favorite Bass For Flatwounds
- Thread starter kramps
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I have a P bass and a Jazz bass but my '82 G&L L1000 kills with flats. My Epi Jack Cassidy loves them as well.
I keep TI flats on my Pino Palladino P Bass, my Ric 4003, and my Warwick Corvette Standard Fretless. I have Hofner flats on my HCT-500/1. Perfect strings for these axes.
Have we mentioned the P-bass sounds good with flats?
Chromes for me on the American Special. Also on my fretless MIM jazz.
The Squier P strung BEAD has GHS flats now but would do much better with LaBella flats.
Chromes for me on the American Special. Also on my fretless MIM jazz.
The Squier P strung BEAD has GHS flats now but would do much better with LaBella flats.
I think the Jazz bass with flats is underrated in terms of nostalgia and cool factor. Another "well duh" for flats would be the Hofner Viola basses like Sir Paul played back in the day, at least in my opinion. The only thing is the time it takes to break them in can discourage a lot of people. I did a lot to break in my chromes, including mowing the lawn and wiping the sweat from my back onto the strings, eating greasy chicken only to clean my hands with the strings, and making a point to never wash my hands when I played it. Took me about 2 or 3 months to get em super dead and thumpy.
That sounds like pretty extreme steps to break in strings. Then again I've been known to change basses but keep the same strings. Here are some Chromes on their third bass, so worn their silk ends are going bald.
I saw the title of this thread and jumped right to this page. Has anybody mentioned a P bass yet?
The Fender Jazz bass I just picked up yesterday have flats on them. I think I'm going to keep it that way 
My G&L L-1000s really, really like flats (and vice versa) IMO. I consider those P-bass descendants so that makes sense. Strangely enough I'm not as enamored of flats on my L2K (Trib).
