Does anyone care to share their opinion on a good brand of flatwounds to put on my fender jazz bass. I'm looking for that fat, warm, punchy tone you hear on alot of 60's and 70's funk albums. I'm thinking thick and high tension?
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Good flat wound strings
- Thread starter Aarongermain
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I have used the fender strings also and liked them but the high tension was not a good fit for me. I use Thomastik Jazz Flats on one of my P-basses and LaBella Deep Talkin Flats on my other Both lower tension than the fender strings. Nothing against the Fender strings They were just not my thing. The LaBellas are deep and thumpy the Thomastiks are more woody still deep but more mids than the Labellas.
i would say go for the rotosound jazz 77 for thump, as mentioned above, although to get a true flat sound you will have to roll off some treble EQ as they are bright. Might defeat the idea of what your doing a little! Yes, try and see 
There area a number of good choices. TIJF's are quite nice. Light guage so low tension. D'Addario Chromes are a little more metallic ring a bit more, medium guage so higher neck tension.
The Fender's mentioned above have a very short live' lifespan. Basically they go dead quickly. That is not necessarily a disadvantage. I ran one set on an L1000 for like 4 years and they held up intonation wise the whole time. That bass wa sort of like playing a 'tunable kick drum'. All thud and nothing else. Made so good dub with that one.
I have no recent experience with Rotosound ort LaBella. Rotosounds QC blew me out of the water back in the 80's - I've nver gone back. I hear good things about the Deep Talkin' Flats but have never tried 'em.
Personally either Chromes or TIjf's do it for me these days. I let the bass decide which based on setup ... both set's sound god with the edge going to TIJF for woody or D'Addario for more 'steely'...
The Fender's mentioned above have a very short live' lifespan. Basically they go dead quickly. That is not necessarily a disadvantage. I ran one set on an L1000 for like 4 years and they held up intonation wise the whole time. That bass wa sort of like playing a 'tunable kick drum'. All thud and nothing else. Made so good dub with that one.
I have no recent experience with Rotosound ort LaBella. Rotosounds QC blew me out of the water back in the 80's - I've nver gone back. I hear good things about the Deep Talkin' Flats but have never tried 'em.
Personally either Chromes or TIjf's do it for me these days. I let the bass decide which based on setup ... both set's sound god with the edge going to TIJF for woody or D'Addario for more 'steely'...
