I had Sadowsky Flats on my Fender P5 before I sold it
and they sounded pretty awesome.
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I had Sadowsky Flats on my Fender P5 before I sold it
and they sounded pretty awesome.
I had Sadowsky Flats on my Fender P5 before I sold it
From what I've read they might be a little bright for me...
I'm thinking GHS Precision Flats might be worth a try.
I've got D'Addario Chromes on my Precision 5 string. They definitely need a little time to break in, but once they do they sound sweet!
I had a quick PM discussion with Jason at Bass Strings Online and decided to give a set of LaBella 0760M-Bs a try. (I think this is the old Jamerson set with a low B added.)
Spending money like a drunk sailor am I.
Spending money like a drunk sailor am I.
That's what I have on my LOG P5. I've tried Tomastiks, GHS Precisions and Chromes and I keep coming back to the Jamerson Labella set. They have a construction where every note played transfers directly from the string to the pickup with a direct-ness no other string can match.
LaBellas are great. They are a permanent fixture on my P5. I have Chromes on other basses and those also sound great. IMHO, Chromes have the best B string of the flats I've tried.....
Seriously? I hope you're good at setting up your bass, because that Jamerson set is rough on a neck. I put a set on a Fender 50's Precision. And while the strings sounded great, the tension from those strings was so extreme that the action got ridiculously high. And I did try to adjust the neck to accommodate those strings. When I put a set of Dean Markley Blue Steel mediums on that bass right after the Jamerson set? The action was phenomenal.
Granted, the bass I put the Jamerson set on didn't have the graphite reinforcement rods that are in Fender's American Standard series basses. And that could be the difference between normal action and high action for your Precision 5 string. But that experience I had with the extreme high action of the LaBella Jamerson set is precisely why I put D'Addario Chromes on my Precision 5 string.
coming soon, a proper Squier P5
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i realize this was on the first page, but that is absolutely killer. love that finish in the nitro!
I just got a Lull P5 about a month ago and I have tried several sets of strings on this thing trying to find something that worked. I tried two different sets of Sadowsky flats, LaBellas, some rounds then, now on to the Tomastik jazz flats. I told myself that if the TIs did not do it for me, I would get rid of the bass. These strings sound amazing on here. Every other flat set sounded off IMO. The b's all sounded dead and warbled. To me the b's just sounded like they came from a different string set all together, not like just another string on the bass. Now that I have the TIs on there, I love this bass. I hate to pay $90 for a string set, but I'd have to say its worth it. Especially when experimenting with flats gets pricy real fast.
- Every bass player should know how to do a basic setup: adjust relief, saddle height and intonate. Its not that hard.
- Never leave a bass seriously out of adjustment for a long period of time. They get hard to set up and sometimes never come back.
Edit: I put a set of LaBella TB medium guage on my P5. After a set up, it plays beautifully and sounds fantastic. I also tried the GHS precision flats. They sounded great but the B string did not set up well nor did it intonate correctly. I think this is because it is not tapered.
Given that I currently run Group I EBMMs on all my fivers I don't anticipate any problems. I've never not been able to get a good setup with high tension strings.
Yeah, thanks.
I've been setting up my own instruments for the past 20 years. I keep my instruments in good, climate controlled conditions. I have an excellent set of truss rod adjustment tools and a workstation for doing my own work. And when I make trust rod adjustments, I do them slowly and gradually. Putting this set of strings on one of my basses wasn't my first rodeo.
Despite all of the attention I was able to give my bass, the tension of that Jamerson set is EXTREME. So extreme that I grew concerned that the adjustments I needed to make on that P-Bass were going to completely max out that truss rod. I tweaked the bridge saddle height as much as possible. And still those LaBella Jamerson's were bowing the neck more than I've ever seen any other set of strings do so before.
Granted, Jamerson was known for having exceptionally high action on his bass. Is this something that the folks at LaBella were shooting for when they designed this set of strings? Perhaps. But it doesn't work for me or my instruments.
That's not to say that other LaBella sets aren't great. I've got a fantastic set of Nylon tapewounds on my Epiphone Jack Casady bass. Those strings sound amazing on that bass. And they also don't bow the neck to almost unplayable extremes.
Buyer beware.
Oh no... They did it.. Now I have to buy one. This will be my next bass purchase. Hands-down. That's just the way it is. I'm gonna cry tears of joy now!
I am in with these:
Lakland Skyline LOG Bass (Hanson vintage pickup)
USA Lakland PJ (Nordy pickups):
Very different sound profiles and I love them both....
Hope to be adding another (REALLY soon)!
Lakland Skyline LOG Bass (Hanson vintage pickup)
USA Lakland PJ (Nordy pickups):
Very different sound profiles and I love them both....
Hope to be adding another (REALLY soon)!
I'm thinking one of those Squiers might make a great winter backup - I hate taking the good stuff out when it's 20 below.
