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New EB Cobalt Flats?

#581
Broke my D string winding them normally. EB sent me a new string and put all of them on as the instructions said with no issues. I'm thinking they may have had a bad batch of strings especially D strings as that seems to be the one causing the most issues. I don't think it has anything to do with the installation used. Mine wasn't even close to being in tune when it broke.
 
#583
JustForSport said:
Crimp before cut?
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Only trimmed the A string and yes crimped. Was able to wrap the whole string on the tuners without overlapping. I'm really thinking that a few bad strings got out because most of the breaks were with the D string. I hope for EB and everyones sake it doesn't keep happening. It really is a great sounding string even though I don't currently have them on. I'm kind of liking the lower tension of rounds on my Rick right now, but
they may go back on or may try them on my Jack Casady bass at some point.
 
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Gorn said:
I rarely cut strings but if you're putting them on skinny little tuners you might have to.
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Yep. I just got in a set of the 40-95s. No way I could fit all those wraps onto the little Gotohs on this particular bass. I used the EB recommended method, no problems so far and after half an hour of hard playing I think I'm good to go. I'm totally stoked with what I'm hearing so far, but will hold off on posting my impressions until I get back from an open mic house band thing I'll be heading off to shortly. Thanks to all the posters in this thread, it helped a lot.
 
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#588
OK, got to play a few different sets in various styles last night, and found that I could still cop the woody organic sound of T-Is on this bass with no problem. When I wanted to take it somewhere else that was happening too though, and the notes above the G octave really pop a lot more now. I didn't do any setup changes and 40-95 set only feels at most a tiny bit stiffer than the T-Is to me, which in my case is a good thing. I have a new DIY onboard preamp in this bass and instantly noticed how much more responsive the mid EQ band is now, across all three of my mid switch settings: 720/1.6K/2.4KHz. As long as these strings hold up well I'm sold. The guys who keep mentioning punchiness have it exactly right IMHO.
 
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Okay, I wanted to give these strings a decent workout before I pitched in. I have had a set of Cobalt Flats on my Blacktop-P for about 2 months now. (The white package, which is not Slinky or super-slinky, but a hybrid gauge I guess. I like a heavy top, heavy bottom!).
Unlike some here, I had no problem with winding or string breakage. The first thing I noticed is the feel (I had come from LaBella Deep Talkin flats, and chromes prior to that; let me tell you- there is a night and day difference) and the string tension. Wow! Then I started playing them. Wow again! Without getting too long winded and emotional, I am fairly certain that I have found my new go-to string. Plus, they are half the cost of LaBella, which does not hurt at all. Now, I just need to see how long they live . . . .
 
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Dogbertday said:
Any chance you have the isolated bass track? It'd be an interesting contrast. Also, what was your signal train? Sounds like a p-bass to my ears. How old.We're the stings?
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I´m just trying to get the multitracks, it's the studio of a friend of my drummer.

The bass chain was:

- Boss TU-3 tuner --> Lehle Sunday Driver --> Tech 21 VT Bass Deluxe (only as a DI) --> Board

The bass is a Squier Vintage Modified Jazz Bass V, the first version, the one with the Duncan Designed Pickups, made in Indonesia

The strings were pretty new, two weeks older, played maybe two/three hours a day.
 
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zenuno said:
Here they are, the new EB cobalt flats, 0.045-0.130, live in the studio, my band, one take:
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Cool, nice job. Here's my fretless, recorded direct in to my cheap USB interface's mic/line input. There's one of my new prototype DIY 3 band preamps in the bass, and the .040-095 Cobalt Flat set at ~ two weeks in.



And a .flac with slightly different editing and mastering processing: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
 
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Passinwind said:
Cool, nice job. Here's my fretless, recorded direct in to my cheap USB interface's mic/line input. There's one of my new prototype DIY 3 band preamps in the bass, and the .040-095 Cobalt Flat set at ~ two weeks in.



And a .flac with slightly different editing and mastering processing: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
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Thanks. Great tone you got there too! Very upright-ish, lots of fundamental and sustain, and still with a nice attack to it, cool.
 
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HaphAsSard said:
Wow! The one with Q-Tuners? It's very wide-range, almost piezo-like. I'm impressed, by pickups, preamp and strings.
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Yep, Q-Tuner BL-4s: one high impedance, one medium. The treble control was actually turned down a little too. On my Soundcloud page there's a clip right after that one with T-I Jazz Flats and a Bart NTMB in the same bass. It was recorded through my DIY tube preamp and a different interface though, so very much apples and oranges. Link Removed
 
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