Flatwounds on stingray

[Scarrsese]

I got Sadowsky flats as well on my 3 band ray. They are very smooth steel flats. 100-80-60-40. Its sick. All the ray sounds without the finger noise.



I wonder about putting TI flats or Pyramids on. I suspect they will play better, but I don't want to lose that clear punchy tone I get.

 

[TheBass]

I got TI JF344 on my Sterling since a few days and .... wow, this punchy growling tone was like a religious experience. I guess I did something wrong using rounds on the Sterling all the years before ...

 

[Dragan]

Bernard Edwards used flats on his Ray? I think he used old rounds actually. but who'd know that.. he had that "dead strings" tone ( but man, he would played it so great!!!) as someone said - I could swear too that I am hearing rounds on live recordings. I also hear lots of Ray sound on first album too... I always wanted to put flats on the Ray but something stops me. maybe set of flats on my P bass is enough. However, I like nickels on the Ray very much - especially when they aint that fresh (after awhile)

 

[stflbn]

Yes, supposedly he used Roto's.
I was just describing the type of tone I prefer, which his what I'm getting with the TI's.

I also think that TI's hold more clarity than Chromes.

 

[jasper383]

Bernard Edwards used flats on his Ray? I think he used old rounds actually. but who'd know that.. he had that "dead strings" tone ( but man, he would played it so great!!!) as someone said - I could swear too that I am hearing rounds on live recordings.

It sounds like rounds to me mostly, too.

I have read that he used the strings that came on his Stingray when he got it, and I believe at the time, that would have been GHS Brite Flats, a groundwound string.

I have also read that he used Rotosound and D'Addario rounds.