nickel wrapped flats

[booch29]

hi gang,

except from TI flats, which brand makes a flatwound with a nickel wrap?
i suspect the TI's are very warm for that reason, but looking for a different soundqfeel.

thanks!
Noam.

 

[HaphAsSard]

hi gang,

except from TI flats, which brand makes a flatwound with a nickel wrap?
i suspect the TI's are very warm for that reason, but looking for a different soundqfeel.

thanks!
Noam.

Old threads here in TalkBass:Strings [BG], asking the same question:
Nickel Flats
Nickel Flats
Nickel Flats Besides TI ?
Pure nickel flatwounds?
and especially
Pure Nickel Alchemists Union
whence

LIST OF PURE NICKEL STRINGS:
[...]
Flatwound:
- Thomastik Jazz Flats
- Pyramid Gold Flats
- Optima RB (red pack, old Rick style)
- Optima Standard Flats (black pack 4099)

^ (Emphasis added. The latter are also known as Optima Chrome Flatwounds.)

Honorable mentions:
- Rotosound Jazz Bass 77 flats are wrapped in Monel (a specific range of copper-nickel alloy where 1/2 to 2/3 is nickel)
- D'Addario (bass) Half-Rounds are pure nickel, but not true flats (they're groundwounds)
- GHS Brite Flats are...twice removed (they're groundwounds, and wrapped in Alloy 52, which is nickel+iron).

 

[iiipopes]

And GHS Balanced pure nickel rounds are rounds, but when they mellow, they start taking on some of that organic woody tone we are all looking for.

 

[booch29]

Old threads here in TalkBass:Strings [BG], asking the same question:
Nickel Flats
Nickel Flats
Nickel Flats Besides TI ?
Pure nickel flatwounds?
and especially
Pure Nickel Alchemists Union
whence

^ (Emphasis added. The latter are also known as Optima Chrome Flatwounds.)

Honorable mentions:
- Rotosound Jazz Bass 77 flats are wrapped in Monel (a specific range of copper-nickel alloy where 1/2 to 2/3 is nickel)
- D'Addario (bass) Half-Rounds are pure nickel, but not true flats (they're groundwounds)
- GHS Brite Flats are...twice removed (they're groundwounds, and wrapped in Alloy 52, which is nickel+iron).

Thanks!
I really wanted to try the daddario halfrounds, but i read nothing but bad reviews about them...

 

[HaphAsSard]

Thanks!
I really wanted to try the daddario halfrounds, but i read nothing but bad reviews about them...

Yeah, they don't seem to have many fans. I've never tried them, nor have I the GHS: my hands are implacable string killers, so after I turned to rust a barely-used set of S.I.T. Power Flats - they were groundwounds at the time - I stopped experimenting with that string type altogether...

 

[BigDrew]

Thanks!
I really wanted to try the daddario halfrounds, but i read nothing but bad reviews about them...

I'm a fan of these. They feel like broken in XLs. I dig them.