Recommend me a string

[seansbrew]

I have this bass that is very midrangey in character.

I am not trying to defeat the natural sound of the bass, just tame it a little.

I find myself subtracting some mids from the eq to get a flatter sound.

Recommendations? Right now I have DR Dragon skins on the bass.

 

[michael_t]

I have this bass that is very midrangey in character...

What bass specifically?

 

[seansbrew]

Probably one that most people have not had any experience with.
This is the "Roxanne" model from Offbeat Guitars.

Cherry neck
Wenge fingerboard
Pine body
Emg pups
32" scale.

 

[iiipopes]

If the bass is middy in character, I suggest D'Addario XL. The inherent tone of a XL rounds is slightly scooped and may help with evening everything out. I use them on an Ibby SRA305 with an Asian Mahogany body for the same reason.

 

[tindrum]

DR Hi Beams are a little shy in the mids.

 

[MYLOWFREQ]

I dont have experience with a lot of strings. I don't remember the model but the 45-105 DR nickel roundwound strings have more scooped mids than the Ernie Ball Hybrid Slinky set of the same gauge, which I use and consider more flat.

 

[80jazz]

DR Hi Beams are a little shy in the mids.

That would be my recommendation in this case.

 

[onda'bass]

DR are quite scooped so that would be a good fit.

 

[seansbrew]

I had a set of high beams in my stash, so I installed them.
The bass sounds great. The Dragon skins that the bass came with have a really weird midrangy thing going on. I also did not like the way they felt.
The high beams I installed are probably about 10 years old. I dont like them on any other bass and never thought I would use them. Glad I kept them.

 

[Hounddog409]

I have this bass that is very midrangey in character.

I am not trying to defeat the natural sound of the bass, just tame it a little.

I find myself subtracting some mids from the eq to get a flatter sound.

Recommendations? Right now I have DR Dragon skins on the bass.

Whatever feels good, play em. You already turned the knobs to get the tone youre after. Strings aint gonna have more of an effect than the knobs.

 

[rickdog]

Sorry for the thread derail, but - whoa, that's a really good-looking bass!

 

[Camarillo]

Midrange is wide…

 

[Fynn]

I don't know of any strings that claim they tame certain frequencies. But there is plenty that aim to accentuate ones. Which in turn can drown the others out a bit. In general, I would probably look at bigger gauges and maybe a flat wound, or tape wound set. That will make them sound more low endy, and therefore less mid rangy. Also I'm assuming you're talking more about higher mids and not really those low mids that many confuse for low end like 300hz.

 

[Medicine Man]

Chromes are a scoopy flatwound.

 

[thisheregiraffe]

Medicine Man beat me to it by a couple minutes. I came here to suggest Chromes as well (if you're into flats). I find they pair very nicely on my PJ with EMG GZRs. You can get them in a medium scale set as well, which is handy (ECB81M).

Sweet looking bass btw.

 

[cnltb]

Recommend me a string
Speaking as a bassist and if it is just one string you want, I'd go with an E-string, Steel, roundwound.

 

[seansbrew]

Recommend me a string
Speaking as a bassist and if it is just one string you want, I'd go with an E-string, Steel, roundwound.

you are correct, I did only ask about 1 string.

 

[MrAB4003]

Chromes are a scoopy flatwound.

I second Chromes! I put a set of them (one string wasn't enough ) on one of my Ric 4003s that has Nordstrand pickups that have a lot of midrange. They've balanced the tone out quite well and has given me an opportunity to try flats again for the first time in years.

 

[markanini]

D'addario pro steel are generally good for getting the full range of freqencies of out of a bass. Maybe try plucking closer to the bridge if you aren't already, that's how some famous players got a good tones from their PJ basses.

 

[PBandJazzBass]

GHS Boomers.