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help ID these strings?

dinkbass

dinkbass

Apr 23, 2010
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#1
You guys were so helpful last time I had some mystery strings, thought I'd ask again-
I bought these used in a pile of strings locally, and best i can figure online, they might be GHS boomers. I always thought they might be Rotos (they were in a roto package), but I also thought roto used red silk at both ends. These are only silked on the tuner end. Nickle roundwounds, big gold ball with no silks ball end. Smooth "boomy" sounding strings.

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GHS Boomers?

thanks all-
 
#2
Hey! I just got a bass this week used with the same looking stings and I have no ideal what they are but they sound so good. The are a bit dry sounding (that might be do to age), they are flexible in feeling. I'm thinking GHS, roto, Thomastik Infeld Superalloy IN345, or D'Addario but the red silk at the neck only comes into play with the ghs more so than the others. I just won $50 so I will buy the ghs first to see if they are them if not the rotos are next. They are not Dr's or elixirs because I have them on my 2 other basses. I must find these strings so I will keep tracking your post for answers.
 
#7
Well, I picked up a set of boomers yesterday- a standard set of 45-105 nickle roundwounds, and I have my doubts whether they are the same as the old used set I have here. They look close (red silks tuner end, but the ball ends are a little different), but their sound is completely different. I know the used set is 10+ years old, and dead and thumpy as can be, but the new set are just so tonally different, I can't imagine them ever settling into sounding like this older set-

My question now is- do you guys know if all GHS boomers are red silked at just one end?

And-
Any ideas on other brands they might be?? Someone had mentioned Thomastik Infeld Superalloy IN345's-- are these red silked at just the tuner end?

have a good thanksgiving all-
 
#8
Boomers = red at one end

And you can't really compare new strings to a ten year old set. There are probably slightly manufacturing changes that will cause them to look slightly different.

I have used boomers for years but can't tell you if they have changed in a way that slightly looks different or not.
 
#10
TI Jazz strings (rounds and flats) have red silk. = This is what I saw in another tread. so far I have read my self that they have silk but they did not say the what color was on the site I was on. I will do more research and report back latter.
 
#12
OP:

Did you get M3045 or M3045X boomers?

Both are 45-105, but one has a 36.5" winding Length (which is what it looks like in your original pictures, and the M3045X has 38" winding length so the E string wrap wire will go around the tuning post some...

Here are Boomers M3045X (34-36" scale instruments) on my Fender Jazz:
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#15
T-I Super Alloy = Red on the Tuner End only... Slapinfunk said. Does anyone know if
Warwick Red Label have red silk on them?


or- maybe I just really like old dead strings.....? They may have boiled them as well? My red silk bass strings that I would love to know what they are, are old. However they have an old skool sound to them (on my used G&L 2500).
 
#16
Good point about the boiling...

To be honest, those boomers have been on that bass of mine for almost 3 years. I RARELY play it (Jaco Relic)... ((You know, don't wanna stratch it! HA!!))

Silks start looking like that when strings are transfered from bass to bass or boiled / soaked in something...

Strings on a used bass that old you cant really judge / compare to a new set even once broken in...
 

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