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Name your Strings

iriegnome

iriegnome

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Nov 23, 2001
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#1
I have tried dozens of different strings from D'Addirio to Musician Friend/Rogue strings and just about everything inbetween. Price is a factor, sometimes, but feel and lasting power are the main ones. I find that I stray, but always run back to D'Addario XL160's. They are my favorite. What are yours? How often do you change strings and at what cost?

I use D'Addario XL 160's, every 3 months or so, $25 for a 2 pack
 
#2
I'm pretty enthusiastic about LaBella. I just put some Deep Talkin' Flats on my Jazz Bass (760 FS) and I like them a lot. I didn't think I wanted flats on this bass, but I tried it at church yesterday and I think they're keepers.
 
#7
For the longest time it was LaBella Hard Rockin' Steels for my Soundgears and Stingray. Then I switched to bassguitarstrings.us' Ironman Strings (still on my ABG) and then I decided to try the D'Addario ProSteels and I must say I liked them at first, but they don't have the life of the LaBella's IMO.

I have a fretless on the way strung with TI Jazz Flats, if those don't work, I'm gonna try D'Addario Chromes, LaBella Deep Talkin' Basses.

I did find out Sadowsky Strings are made by E&O Mari, the makers of LaBella, so I may be interested there too.
 
#15
Aaron Noguer said:
How does it save money & time to not not bother with buy and changing strings? If you don't like the sound fine, but yes it does sound strange. :confused:
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That's the thing. It doesn't sound strange to me. Then I buy new strings and the difference is night and day but I wouldn't say it sounds "bad" when I play on dead roundwounds. I'm getting better about replacing them. I bought some strings at the beginning of october and I'm about to buy a set within the next month. That's 3 or 4 months instead of a year.
 
#17
D'Addario XL220's (.040, .060, .075, .090) on my 4-string for hundreds of years. On my six I've tried different sets through the years, but nowadays I use Carvin's (.029, .040, .060, .080, .100, .128) nickel roundwound set (which I think are LaBellas in disguise.)

I change 'em well, whenever. I actually don't care too much for that super-fresh zingy string sound as much as I used to. After about a week or two of settling in is about the optimal sound for me.
 

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