I’ll go one step further with this. In my string experiment days I finally discovered that each bass has its own favorite string, J, P, PJ or whatever. There was no real consistency, except that I knew when I had found the right one for that bass. That’s not much help to OP’s aims, but it’s honest.
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Match strings to the bass…
- Thread starter Dark Horse
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- Oct 22, 2015
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My favorite bass string vendors are sort of out of luck with me.
GHS Balanced Nickels are the perfect match (to my ear) for the Nordy Cat bass. I'm on my third set in three years, and there are two more new sets in the string larder. I am set.
EB Group IV flats and the 1979 StingRay stay right where they are. They are not the "perfect" Bernard Edwards thing (GHS Brite Flats are, but I don't get along with the Brite Flats feel), but they are close enough. 31 months and counting, it is the most "'vintage" Ray my vintage Ray has sounded in 45 years.
Nine months of settling in, the Pyramid Golds on the semi-hollowbody (in background, above) also stay right where they are. "If ever a bass needed flatwounds, this one is it," my luthier declares.
GHS Balanced Nickels are the perfect match (to my ear) for the Nordy Cat bass. I'm on my third set in three years, and there are two more new sets in the string larder. I am set.
EB Group IV flats and the 1979 StingRay stay right where they are. They are not the "perfect" Bernard Edwards thing (GHS Brite Flats are, but I don't get along with the Brite Flats feel), but they are close enough. 31 months and counting, it is the most "'vintage" Ray my vintage Ray has sounded in 45 years.
Nine months of settling in, the Pyramid Golds on the semi-hollowbody (in background, above) also stay right where they are. "If ever a bass needed flatwounds, this one is it," my luthier declares.
