If I have a lot of material to learn in a short period of time, and gigs as well, practicing with flats cam save wear and tear on my f8ngers.
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One with flats and one with rounds ?
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If I have a lot of material to learn in a short period of time, and gigs as well, practicing with flats cam save wear and tear on my f8ngers.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Depends on what music you are playing. Simple as that.
Here are my flats / rounds combinations with what the basses are strung with right now (does not match with the pictures).
Dunlop Flats (66 J):
d'Addario rounds (78 J):
Thomastik Infeld flats (74 P) :
DR Pure Blues rounds (84 Fullerton P)
Dunlop Flats (66 J):
d'Addario rounds (78 J):
Thomastik Infeld flats (74 P) :
DR Pure Blues rounds (84 Fullerton P)
I prefer flats. All of my 8 basses have flats or tapes except one. For whatever reason, I kept rounds on my purple sparkle Adam Clayton p bass.
Guilty as charged: Fender Player P with EB Cobalt Flats and G&L Tribute LB-100 with Dunlop Super Bright Stainless Steel Rounds. EBMM Stingray 5HH with Ernie Ball Regular Slinky Rounds and Sterling Sub Series Stingray 5HH with EB Cobalt Flats.
One with flats and one with rounds?
i have too many axes, but: i like every one of them (despite liking a few more than others). if only i had one that i totally despised, absolutely hated = i'd put some flats on it!
i have too many axes, but: i like every one of them (despite liking a few more than others). if only i had one that i totally despised, absolutely hated = i'd put some flats on it!
I put flats on a bass when I want to frustrate myself by attempting to play a bass that won't get the sound in my head. OK, that wasn't what I set out to do, but it is what happened. So far, in 47 years of playing that has occurred twice, and they got removed very quickly. The most glorious sound to my ears is what a set of rounds gives you - just after I've replaced a set of flats on that bass.
Sean Hurley sounds great playing a P with flats. I'm not Sean Hurley, and his sound is not the one in my head - stubbornly, that sound has been there for all this time, and seems to show no signs of changing.
Sean Hurley sounds great playing a P with flats. I'm not Sean Hurley, and his sound is not the one in my head - stubbornly, that sound has been there for all this time, and seems to show no signs of changing.
I believe I have the answer you're looking forI've two P-basses:
a G&L SB–1 with D'Addario Pro Steels...
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...and a G&L LB–100 with D'Addario Chromes (that's a Lindy Fralin stock-wind pickup)...
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...and I own no other bass (or guitar or piano or horn)
Sweet basses
My minimum arsenal is 4 basses.
One precision with flats, one precision with rounds, one jazz with flats and one jazz with rounds.
Okay, I have an extra precision with Ernie Ball cobalt flats that I consider as an in between flats and rounds sound wise.
I tend to prefer rounds but with my 5 basses, I can play pretty much everything and "adapt" to my band mates and/or music style.
One precision with flats, one precision with rounds, one jazz with flats and one jazz with rounds.
Okay, I have an extra precision with Ernie Ball cobalt flats that I consider as an in between flats and rounds sound wise.
I tend to prefer rounds but with my 5 basses, I can play pretty much everything and "adapt" to my band mates and/or music style.
My most played bass is a P with Flats, I also have a P with rounds for when I need that zing. This is the way.
I get enough of the “thud” that flats produce by palm muting my rounds, for my needs.
Unfortunately, using flats only lets me get the “thud;” which doesn’t let me cover the spectrum I use on my gigs. There is no technique to make flats sound like rounds. So, a bass with flats in my stable would go to zero gigs.
It’s an individual choice for each player.
Unfortunately, using flats only lets me get the “thud;” which doesn’t let me cover the spectrum I use on my gigs. There is no technique to make flats sound like rounds. So, a bass with flats in my stable would go to zero gigs.
It’s an individual choice for each player.
I try out flats on everything, just to make sure the right basses get the flats. Some definitely work better than others.
I've owned many P basses and have done the one with flats and one with rounds thing. Now I own active basses and use only flats on all my basses now.
The earth is ROUND not FLAT.
I can get many more tones out of rounds. Flats are too conventional for me. And I've tried a bunch of them. I do not care for the muddy tone a lot of guys get with flats. A p bass can do so much more. Steve Harris seems to be the exception to this. He gets massive tones from flats.
I can get many more tones out of rounds. Flats are too conventional for me. And I've tried a bunch of them. I do not care for the muddy tone a lot of guys get with flats. A p bass can do so much more. Steve Harris seems to be the exception to this. He gets massive tones from flats.
