Those who are fortunate enough to have a set of Precision Flats with mismatched silks should hang on to them as long as they can. They will have great value in the post-COVID world as a reminder of how the pandemic changed our lives forever.
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Praise Report: GHS Precision Flats
- Thread starter Linnin
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I hope you didn’t take my earlier comment about fading as being critical. I actually think it’s cool when there’re perfect imperfections.
The (Covid) situation you described about materials supply being disrupted makes me think it’s an opportunity to market a special line of “PANDEMIC” strings and they’re identified by a mish-mosh of whatever silk colors are available at the time of winding.
I’d buy’m if I were looking for a fresh set of “Pandemic Boomers” or “Covid Flats”.EDIT: Sorry @michael_t I see that I’m a little late to the Covid Party Strings…lol
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Do Precision Flats have silks at the bridge?
If so, do you have to strip it back to avoid saddle contact?
If so, do you have to strip it back to avoid saddle contact?
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- Sep 9, 2007
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That’s strange. The ones that are on a P bass that I bought secondhand do have silk at both ends. Did they used to have them there and then change?
A lot of GHS strings USED TO come with silk at both ends, but they stopped doing that at some point. For example, the first set of Pressurewounds I tried back in 2015 had silk at both ends. The same with the Boomers. So, it's safe to assume older Precision Flats did come with silk at both ends. They would probably have to be several years old, though.
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Decades ago, sure. The only strings that still had silk at both ends when I came in 2013 were the Pressurewounds, which I changed when we edited them.
(Tapewounds are an entirely different story that have to have silk on both ends to keep the nylon tape on the string)
Yeah, they’re on a Road Worn P with a custom wound pickup that I bought about a year ago. From how he described it, I thought he had just put them on in the last year before he sold it to me. Maybe he had them sitting around from 2012?
They are fantastic strings on this bass, either way you slice it.
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IMO you'd be cutting it close for the taper crossing the nut.
A measuring tape will be your best friend on this.
We were just discussing something similar in the Medium Scale Bass Club thread.
It was whether a 32.75" short scale GHS set would fit a medium scale top loading P-bass.
One poster said that they would fit, but I measured such a bass which I own, and disagreed.
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I used to not like the feel of flats. A few months ago I put a set of precision flats on a custom build fretless.
Holy crap. Never going back to rounds on a fretless.
Holy crap. Never going back to rounds on a fretless.
Perhaps slightly off topic but I'm also asking in relation to the GHS precision flats. Will thicker gauge D and G strings, say .055 instead of .045 and .070 instead of .065, have a thicker/fuller tone? Or quite the contrary, as some people say, a higher tension string, tuned to the same pitch, will in fact sound "treblier" / will have more overtones than a lighter one due to the added tension?
These are my flats of choice for solid old school tone. I have them on P, PJ and J basses. Huge and solid consistent tone.
This will have to do with the feel of the string, not the tone. A little thicker, a little stiffer. Remember, you're talking about 1/100th of an inch and 5/1000s of an inch difference. The magnets won't notice it.
Looks like I've got to try the GHS Precision Flats. It's just that I put on a new set of Pyramid Gold flats ten days ago and don't want to take them off so soon. They're definitely nice, Macca style but they do have some growl - or at least some quite present mids - in them, at least on a Pbass. But given that I want to avoid a growly middy tone as much as possible on this particular bass, the GHS may be the ticket.
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Put a set on my Fretless Jazz
Feels different to Chromes. Less tops I think to. Feels like higher tension. I like them enough to buy another set which I will try on an active Bass
1 question
The E string wraps metal onto tuning peg whilst the other 3 are Silk only. Is this “normal?”
Feels different to Chromes. Less tops I think to. Feels like higher tension. I like them enough to buy another set which I will try on an active Bass
1 question
The E string wraps metal onto tuning peg whilst the other 3 are Silk only. Is this “normal?”
