GHS to make a Flatwound version of their Balanced Tension strings?

[Mastermold]

The CM3050s worked wonderfully for me.

I just ordered a set of these, my first set of GHS flats. Putting them on a 64 P-bass that’s currently wearing LaBella 760FL flats. Looking forward to hearing how they compare.

 

[Root 5]

24171769[/URL], member: 237573"]The Balanced Nickels were a big step forward for GHS in terms of innovation - balanced construction, pure nickel final cover and round core.

How about a flatwound version of them? Pure Nickel flatwound on a round core with balanced construction!

This whole idea of "balanced construction" for a flatwound is an intriguing one, and a very challenging one, considering its main objective is "balanced tone" across all strings and up and down the neck. How many posts have we all read by people complaining how unbalanced their new set of flats sounded, and people advising them to give them six months to ten years for them to "balance out eventually"?

I’d be all over GHS pure nickel flatwounds. Big time.

( “Oops I did it again...” )

 

[Ricky Rioli]

I keep wondering if the 2-wraps-on-each-string design of the Balanced Nickels and RC Boomers would be physically possible over a hexcore.

But then I suppose GHS's regular hexcore Boomers would be far too much of an established product to be meddled with.

 

[Jon Moody]

I keep wondering if the 2-wraps-on-each-string design of the Balanced Nickels and RC Boomers would be physically possible over a hexcore.

Yes, absolutely.

But then I suppose GHS's regular hexcore Boomers would be far too much of an established product to be meddled with.

You don’t make major changes to the flagship product line, if you can avoid it. Minor things here and there, or things that would make improvements to the product are fine, like winding length adjustments. But the “balanced construction” idea is a little more in-depth than that.