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Labella Super Polished
- Thread starter Bernie Connors
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I ordered a set too. Pricey but something different and of course the Donny Benet tie in sealed the deal for me. Lol.
I'm SUPER intrigued by these though the gauge offered is making me pump the breaks a bit I normally play a 45-100 set as I love the slightly lower tension. I've used 45-105 in the past, and in fact 20 years ago that was my preferred choice, but a 107 E string? I fear a stiff cable feeling, which is a hard no if that is the case.
I'll see how they compare to my typical chromes set. I'm only like an hr away from Labella hq so they will be here by Friday.
I think the gauges might be like this due to them being a ground/pressurewound design which will bring the gauges down a bit.
That's, quite literally, two mils more, and a really small increment coming from a .105 - I don't wanna say imperceptible (D'Addario makes a .105, as do most, and also a .107 for one of their Balanced Tension sets; so if they bother making both their difference in tension - 38.08 vs. 39.45 lbs - must be detectable by the human hand), but likely not to be a huge deal, least of all feel-wise.
I got the email, a little spendy for me right now, but I like the idea. I'm down to two basses currently and my #1 just got some Rotosound RS77 45-105 Jazz Flats a few weeks ago so I'm set for a while.
I would like to know how similar these are to the old discontinued Labella Quarter Rounds.
Looks interesting. I wonder how long they last. I've had basses with flats that I never changed. And others with rounds that I change about once a month.
If they are somewhere in the middle, I might be in.
If they are somewhere in the middle, I might be in.
I am curious, but the gauges are not what I like. I'd guess the d & g strings will have more tension than the lower strings and I also like a .130 B. I see what the reviews say.
Similar for me. I've avoided Labella flats for two reasons: IME they are the dullest sounding flats, and they are the stiffest (excluding their low-tension flats). I've been playing Chromes in the .45 .65 .80 .100 gauges, because those specific numbers feel right to me.
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I think most comparable to D'Addario half-rounds. Both begin as roundwound strings which are polished to smooth the roundwound ridges. Pressurewounds have a slightly different treatment suggested in the name, where the winding is compressed into an oblong shape versus round, which I believe happens before it is wound around the core.
Cobalt flats are truly flatwound, but the windings are very slightly spaced apart so as to reveal the core a tiny bit. It has a huge effect on the tone but in my experience also the feel, which is sticky. Cobalts also go dead like rounds because of the accumulation of skin/dirt/oil in those little spaces.
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