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Silk colors

#42
Here's a good resource, though the silks are only shown for the ball end of the strings. It's the old BP string roundup they did a few years ago.

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I found this thread since I pickup up a couple used sets of flats at our local GTG today. One has gold silks (both ends) and the wrap wire seems to be a very narrow gauge compared to the other flats I've seen. Another guy had a set of DR flats in a bag still and they were a perfect match. The other set has green silks (think St Patty's Day; ball end only). Perhaps they're Fender strings as the silk color matches perfectly with the Fender flats shown in the BP article.
 
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#44
Unfortunately, I don't have the packaging anymore, but these are Ernie Ball flatwounds. I have heard, (somewhere on talkbass,) they are basically rebranded D'Addario Chromes.

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They have red silk at both ends and silver balls with rounded corners. They look and feel like the outer winding wire is nickel/nickel plated. The outer winding wire seems larger than average gauge though, so they feel a bit coarse even though they lack the high friction feeling of steel strings like Slinkys. They have lots of deep bass, anemic/nonexistent mids and kind of a dark, angry, echoing metallic high frequency "presence".

I assume these are Fender strings but if I were to try to buy another set of these, I wouldn't know which ones to buy. Does anyone know what these are?

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Beefpatrol said:
They have red silk at both ends and silver balls with rounded corners. They look and feel like the outer winding wire is nickel/nickel plated. The outer winding wire seems larger than average gauge though, so they feel a bit coarse even though they lack the high friction feeling of steel strings like Slinkys. They have lots of deep bass, anemic/nonexistent mids and kind of a dark, angry, echoing metallic high frequency "presence".
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Look and sound like GHS Boomers.
 
#48
OK my 2c:


Rotosound 66 nickels: light blue (almost cyan) silks, brass ends.

Rotosound 66 steels: red silks, brass ends.

Rotosound 77 monels: red silks, brass ends (flats, not hard to distinguish from 66's)

D'Addario XL Chromes: Darkish purple silks (almost blue), EADG Brown,Red,Black,Green ends.

Fenders, NCS, nickels etc, no silks, EADG Gold,Red,Silver,Green ends.

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Rotosound RS 66M photo courtesy of: jamersonfan1214

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Beefpatrol said:
They have red silk at both ends and silver balls with rounded corners. They look and feel like the outer winding wire is nickel/nickel plated. The outer winding wire seems larger than average gauge though, so they feel a bit coarse even though they lack the high friction feeling of steel strings like Slinkys. They have lots of deep bass, anemic/nonexistent mids and kind of a dark, angry, echoing metallic high frequency "presence".

I assume these are Fender strings but if I were to try to buy another set of these, I wouldn't know which ones to buy. Does anyone know what these are?

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did you find out which strings these are? i also bought a squier precision last year which came with similar strings and i liked them very very much but did never find them. my strings have silver ballends and red/magenta-looking silk on both ends of the strings.
 
#53
sorry for highjacking the thread but mine arent boomers - i tried them their red is different, they sound different and they do not feel so smooth.

i tried to make some kind of picture of the ones i am looking for. the silk is not clear read. it goes into magenta (some kind of). i measured 038, 055, 068 (i lost the e-string). they play very smooth and dont have much tension. the ballends are silver.

before the strings died they had this kind of superduup midrange growl. after spending quite some money on different strings the ones that came into the direction of this sound were DR LO RIDER nickel plated NLH 40 60 80 100. they are a little to bright on the g and d-string and have the kind of growl. but the growl is absolutly not that present like the strings i am looking for.

last info: the strings were on a indonesian squier precision special (with the j-pickup). i bought the bass second hand and i am pretty sure the strings are no fender ones.
 

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#54
Trying to find the manufacturer of a round wound string that has different coloured silk ball ends. I think the G-string was yellow, the rest red/blue, but can't remember the rest. .... Anyone know what they are?
 
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Nimu said:
sorry for highjacking the thread but mine arent boomers - i tried them their red is different, they sound different and they do not feel so smooth.

i tried to make some kind of picture of the ones i am looking for. the silk is not clear read. it goes into magenta (some kind of). i measured 038, 055, 068 (i lost the e-string). they play very smooth and dont have much tension. the ballends are silver.

before the strings died they had this kind of superduup midrange growl. after spending quite some money on different strings the ones that came into the direction of this sound were DR LO RIDER nickel plated NLH 40 60 80 100. they are a little to bright on the g and d-string and have the kind of growl. but the growl is absolutly not that present like the strings i am looking for.

last info: the strings were on a indonesian squier precision special (with the j-pickup). i bought the bass second hand and i am pretty sure the strings are no fender ones.
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Sounds like a set of Rotosound Swing Bass!
 
#58
Very helpful post, even without pics it's easy to identify the major brands. Helped me figure out that the used Ric 4003 I bought was strung with GHS Precision Flats - purple. Some of these may have been posted - D'Addario Half Rounds are brass, red, black, green. TI Jazz flats are red - awesome sounding strings - they sound like new forever - wish they were heavier with a bit more tension. Thanks TalkBass.
 

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