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Magma Strings
- Thread starter Ignus_tou
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The company has been making strings for 18 years, so yeah, probably.
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The only Magma bass strings I know are these ones
Pretty nice tone on the video. From having them spend some time on both a Warwick corvette and ibanez SR i can say that the stainless that i used were really nice. The stiffness was about medium I'd say. In between Pro steel and SIT power steel. The tone reminded me of DR LoRiders. Not clanky like pro steel but just really punchy thick sounding. They felt pretty nice. Not grabby but just like nice well made roundwounds. I got a lot of playing out of them. Pretty much almost a year so they worked. As they broke in and mellowed i used them on a fretless i had and they did great.
Oh my... I guess only americans don't know what Magma is, seems you didn't got the pun here
Magma (band) - Wikipedia
Oh my... I guess only americans don't know what Magma is, seems you didn't got the pun here
Magma (band) - Wikipedia
I just thought that bass player was using the magma strings. Now i want to know if the stringmakers got thier name from that band.
Magma is pretty well known in South America, so in Argentina too maybe. But I would not speculate on this though.
I mean. Yeah. It's a word. Of Greek origin, meaning..."magma", used in many languages. I can't rule out the Argentine company was named after the band, but I wouldn't bet a dime on it having been the case. But who knows?
For those interested, I ordered four sets of Magma rounds and received flats. I put them up in the classifieds for the price I paid the rounds.
They are modern (brighter) flatwounds reminiscent of Chromes and Slinky flats, but IME are lower tension than both and are better balanced.
They’re handmade in Argentina.
They are modern (brighter) flatwounds reminiscent of Chromes and Slinky flats, but IME are lower tension than both and are better balanced.
They’re handmade in Argentina.
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I have a set of Magma nickel rounds on one of my Jazz basses--in this case, 35 - 95. They sound great. In fact, I'm planning on putting them on most of my basses since, at least right now, I can get them for a great price, especially when I order multiple sets. I also have a set of their flatwounds (40 - 95). I'm not a fan of flats, but I will eventually put them on one of my basses, just to check them out. The only flats I can really tolerate for any length of time is EB cobalt Slinky flats. So, we'll see how the Magmas compare.
