Because I like balanced tension, want to keep it under 200 lbs total and I don't care about flexibility because I have strong hands and fingers.
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Looking for Heavy Gauge and Low Tension
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hasbeen
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gottcha. Thanks. I'm just curious since I'm in product design, but what does balanced tension give you?
IMO more consistent technique. Especially for more "advanced", for lack of a better term, techniques such as harmonics and chords. The challenge is tonal balance, but that can be fixed with EQ. Also certain products like GHS Balanced Nickels are constructed in a way that deals directly with this problem.
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Thanks Willi. String "tension" per se, won't have a dramatic, "direct" affect on tonal balance. It will have "some" affect for sure. The indirect affect is due to excursion of the string when "plucked". So, everything else being equal, a string with more tension will have less excursion than one with less tension. String flexibility has a much more direct affect on tonal balance.
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EXL160 BT is a Balanced Tension set that allows for evenly balanced bending, fretting, plucking and slapping. XL Nickel Wound electric bass strings, long recognized as the industry standard, are ideal for a wide range of musical styles.
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If you tune below standard, you'll have less than 200 pounds of tension. I tune to D Standard (D-G-C-F) and there's 160 pounds of tension with this set in that tuning.
