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Lakland Owners Group #69

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^ last 2 posts. Just trying to sculpt also. Just to my taste from what is inherent in the current generation of the Bart pups. As AR Soundman said I end up running flat most of the time with the JE Uni. Just simply different choices, all good though depending on your tastes.
 
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krfoss said:
55-02/94 FRETLESS owners:

What strings do you like on your bass? I have chromes on mine, but I'm not sold. Thinking of putting my pure blues back on, or maybe TI flats. What do you use/ recommend? I'm looking for good MWAAAHHH.
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Might be a bit outside your specific request but I have GHS Pressurewounds on my J-Sonic 5 fretless and its a very legimite fretless sounding string with the lovely mwaaahhh qualities you detail. Not as initially smooth as a true flatwound but they play in nicely. And pretty reasonably priced. I can't see why they wouldn't be the same on an 02/94
 
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Thanks for all the feedback. I do have a 6 string set of TI flats from my MTD that I’ve been thinking of putting on. I also misquoted myself; I have cobalts on the 5502 currently, not chromes. It just seems too dark and the tone doesnt cut through at all. Just sounds like any other bass. I'm using the bridge pickup only which helps, but maybe I need to toy with my amp eq more.
 
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Doug Bright said:
55-60 vs DJ5
Is the pickup spacing different between the 2?
Who has some pros or cons for one over the other?
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I used to own a DJ5 and have demoed plenty of 55-60s. There will be a lot of commonalities such as the neck dimensions, upper fret access, and the pickups used which I think are Lakland single coils used in both (unless you request a different make). For me, the DJ5s slightly downsized body shape and elongated upper horn (compared to the 55-60) was very comfortable. I think that would be a big pro, especially if you could find one with a nice weight (less than or equal to 9 lbs). I don't know about the pickup spacing; I think both have the 60s jazz bass spacing. I do not own the DJ5 anymore. I have a DJ4 and a 44-60 and there are more differences between those models than the 5 strings. Oh and as far as aesthetics go, if your a bound and block person, the DJs will always have them, whereas the 55-60s may or may not depending on which one you find.
 
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I could be wrong since it has been several years since I had this conversation on this. I was told that the DJ was setup with 70's spacing and the 44/55-60 were set up with 60's J bass spacing. I want to say it was someone at Lakland that told me, but it has been at least 10 years ago that I recall.

Doug Bright said:
55-60 vs DJ5
Is the pickup spacing different between the 2?
Who has some pros or cons for one over the other?
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Thumpinshelton said:
I could be wrong since it has been several years since I had this conversation on this. I was told that the DJ was setup with 70's spacing and the 44/55-60 were set up with 60's J bass spacing. I want to say it was someone at Lakland that told me, but it has been at least 10 years ago that I recall.
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Yeah, I'm not sure on the 5 strings. Not even certain on the 4 strings. I do know that my DJ4 has 70's spacing compared to the 60's spacing on my 44-60. But all of this may have changed.
 
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krfoss said:
Thanks for all the feedback. I do have a 6 string set of TI flats from my MTD that I’ve been thinking of putting on. I also misquoted myself; I have cobalts on the 5502 currently, not chromes. It just seems too dark and the tone doesnt cut through at all. Just sounds like any other bass. I'm using the bridge pickup only which helps, but maybe I need to toy with my amp eq more.
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I don’t know of any other Flatwounds that are even close to the brightness of Slinky Cobalt Flatwounds, They can get very bright on either of my 55-94’s.
Granted I’ve only played Sadowsky’s, Thomastick Jazz Flats D’Addario Half Rounds, and the Ernie Ball’s. Perhaps Flatwounds Strings aren’t in the cards for you.
Just my take of course.
 
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Ric Vice said:
I don’t know of any other Flatwounds that are even close to the brightness of Slinky Cobalt Flatwounds, They can get very bright on either of my 55-94’s.
Granted I’ve only played Sadowsky’s, Thomastick Jazz Flats D’Addario Half Rounds, and the Ernie Ball’s. Perhaps Flatwounds Strings aren’t in the cards for you.
Just my take of course.
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What do you think of the slap tone on the 5 string cobalt flats?
 

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