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Praise Report: GHS Precision Flats
- Thread starter Linnin
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Heard that but don't really agree with it. While the TIs on another P bass I own does have more of a mid bump, I don't think scooped when I think Labella DTF. My opinion? ...GHS after a long break in, Sadowsky Black Label and Labella DTF have a similar old school sound, the Labellas just have a deeper harder hitting fundamental.
LoveThatBass
Supporting Member
Maybe my experience is the exception but I lowered the pickups until loosening the strings slightly stopped the warble sound on D and G, pressed the strings down on both sides of the nut and the saddle and have no problem. These strings have a lot of steel in them which gives them awesome low end and volume and due to that require the pickups be lowered. It is that way with any string on Bass or Guitar that has a lot of magnetic pull. My sound great and the sustain is incredible when needed. I presently have TI Jazz flats on my Jazz bass and the GHS Precision Flats on my P/J bass and very happy with both.
I've had a set(95-45) on my P-bass for almost a year. I love them so much I just ordered another set for my Jazz. I went with a the thickest gauge(.055 .070 .090 .105) for tuning down to D standard in a new stoner rock band. I don't see myself needing to buy new strings for a long time.
LoveThatBass
Supporting Member
Just played the Bass with the GHS Precision Flats. Incredible tone and low end. Absolutely love them and couldn't hardly put the bass down tonight.
I agree that the GHS and LaBella flats sound fairly similar; however, Chromes and TIs sound nothing alike.
I am still battling with the 3050M flats and the fact that the A, D and G strings have PLENTY of sustain whereas the E string sounds close to dull. Apart from that the GHS presicision flats are great strings.
Could you guys please tell me how these strings will change over time with regards to sustain? Can I expect A, D and G getting more dull (i.e. less sustain) over time or will the E string improve? Or maybe they will meet somewhere in the middle?
Oh, and I know that they need some time to get broken in and I also know that flats are different from rounds, but sustain-wise the E is completely different from the other strings.
Could you guys please tell me how these strings will change over time with regards to sustain? Can I expect A, D and G getting more dull (i.e. less sustain) over time or will the E string improve? Or maybe they will meet somewhere in the middle?
Oh, and I know that they need some time to get broken in and I also know that flats are different from rounds, but sustain-wise the E is completely different from the other strings.
I find that over time, the top three strings will conform with the low E in terms of tone and sustain. The E is duller and thumpier at first, which is also a comment often made about Pyramid flats when new.
My GHS's began to mellow at about the end of the first month of play. They do even out and end up sounding pretty consistent across the instrument. So look for the top three strings to match what you're hearing from the low E eventually.
My GHS's began to mellow at about the end of the first month of play. They do even out and end up sounding pretty consistent across the instrument. So look for the top three strings to match what you're hearing from the low E eventually.
I am putting GHS Precision Flast on my SB-1 fretless when it comes in. I'll give them another chance then and there is a good chance I might put them on my SB-2.
I used to love them actually and they were my string of choice for a few years. But I started feeling like they were a bit too dead for me and I wanted a change. Besides I found more sets where the E was deader as was discussed above and I wasn't patient enough to give them enough time to even out.
LoveThatBass
Supporting Member
I tried the GHS Precision Flatwounds on both my P/J bass and my J bass. I prefer them on the P and TI Jazz Flats on my Jazz Bass
These strings are a bit like groing a beard: it's patchy and unbalanced at first, but if you're patient enough and are willing to put some effort into it, in a few months it will even out and be full and blooming.
One thing I do now (and should have done from the start) is to use Music Nomad String Fuel. That stuff is magic! I started using it at 6 months when the strings had really come into their own and were perfect in tone and sustain. I wanted to keep them just like that for as many years as possible. I was using it once a week, but now once a month is enough. The playability and tone are just fantastic. Plus I've got my bass dialed in to absolute perfection, and has never played or sounded better in the 38 years that I've owned it.
Electric Blues; Smooth Jazz, Classic Rock, and Soul/Motown. Anything that calls for a flatwound sound. Plus I can play very 'slippery' for a sound that rivals a fretless. And of course extreme purcussive attack when needed. Think AC-DC.
I have a 2012 Fender American Standard Jazz with stock custom shop p'ups (that are killer) that I keep in roundwounds for that beautifully clear piano tone, or aggressive growl & snarl.
I switch off between each bass as needed. I play through a Fender Rumble 350 head on top of a pair of Rumble 112 Neo cabs. Absolutely tons of fabulous Fender tone for days!
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Nice, Linnin, nice!
I have a 2012 MIA Standard Precision (in Charcoal Frost Metallic - yeah!), currently strung with Chromes but am thinking about going back to GHS Precision flats.
How has your set of GHS flats developed sustain-wise? Still enough for a powerful strike on the E string right in the beginning of AC/DCs T.N.T.?
I play in a 70s/80s rock cover band, and here and there I need some sustain. Therefore all my questions.
I have a 2012 MIA Standard Precision (in Charcoal Frost Metallic - yeah!), currently strung with Chromes but am thinking about going back to GHS Precision flats.
How has your set of GHS flats developed sustain-wise? Still enough for a powerful strike on the E string right in the beginning of AC/DCs T.N.T.?
I play in a 70s/80s rock cover band, and here and there I need some sustain. Therefore all my questions.
Nice, Linnin, nice!
I have a 2012 MIA Standard Precision (in Charcoal Frost Metallic - yeah!), currently strung with Chromes but am thinking about going back to GHS Precision flats.
How has your set of GHS flats developed sustain-wise? Still enough for a powerful strike on the E string right in the beginning of AC/DCs T.N.T.?
I play in a 70s/80s rock cover band, and here and there I need some sustain. Therefore all my questions.
I am going to go ahead and quote myself from post #1
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What I have come to Love about GHS Precision Flats:
1) They are very strongly focused on the fundamental tone. Sure there are some over and under tones, but they are subdued and decay quickly leaving the pure tonic tone. I've never experienced this extreme purity of tone with any other string. None. This is reason enough to love them.
2) Smooth - While the strings themselves are super smooth so is the sound. Dark. Focused. Smooth. Intense. They sound as good as Ghiradelli Intense Dark Chocolate tastes. Yes, that good.
3) ATTACK! GHS Precision Flats have an intensely purcussive attack on a thermonuclear scale. If you want to rock a true assault bass, you need these strings.
4) Sustain - Long & Lovely. Pure Fundamental Sustain with smooth slow decay. An earful of joy.
5) Tune - GHS Precision Flats hold their tune better than any string I've ever played. These strings are stable, and I expect them to stay that way for a long time."
Some folks think flatwound strings are dull and dead sounding. Nothing could be further from the truth.
To get a fast decay for a quick thump use a mute.
