I love your post! Haha. I play flats on my white on white precision to disco tunes. Zebrahead - Flydaze is a 90's song but a disco-esque jam that is fun to play. Great on a flat strung P bass.
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Some love for GHS Precision Flats Light (45-95)
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I love your post! Haha. I play flats on my white on white precision to disco tunes. Zebrahead - Flydaze is a 90's song but a disco-esque jam that is fun to play. Great on a flat strung P bass.
I just ordered a set for my Jazz bass, partially inspired by this thread actually. I was curious if there were still issues with the E string being too long? I had read in some older threads that some players had issues with this.
GHS P Flats are 38" in winding length, meaning the E will be too long. However, unlike some flats, they're pliable enough for the main body of the E string to wrap around the tuner post with no issues.
Here's mine:
I put a set of LaBella low-tensions on my Jack Casady and absolutely love them. I'm going to try them on my p bass next.
Good for you. Maybe you should start another thread, "Some Love For La Bella Low Tension Flats", so you can have your own party.
sorry for your stepping on your thread there matey I figured this was about opinions not about love of just one product.Good for you. Maybe you should start another thread, "Some Love For La Bella Low Tension Flats", so you can have
own party.
Yes, and other than tension I can't really tell any difference tone wise. One set on a Jazz, one on a '58 P and another on a G&L L2k, so it's hard to detect differences in tone given the wide range of basses. Feel wise, I like the light set the best, but have no complaints on the Mediums--just lower the strings a tad and it's all good.
In my quest to find the perfect strings (for me), I have tried many. I didn't discover flats until recently though, starting with the fat LaBella Original with the 110 E. Wanting more growl - and less tension to be honest - I went back to round wound for a bit. I popped into Chicago Music exchange and asked Marc for some good flats, and he gave me the light set of ghs precision flats. I never would have considered light gauge on my own, but man am I glad I got these. Warm, defined and SO SMOOTH! I couldn't put the bass down! Something about how they grind the wrap makes them super smooth and not shiny, polished, which can feel sticky to me. Anyway, I got another set for my Jazz, then figured I have to see what the TI hype was just to sleep better at night. Put them on the Jazz, and they sound great, but the feel of the GHS wins hands down for me. I guess just because I'm nuts, does anyone know of another string that is smoother to play on?
Just wait. It only gets better! Congrats on finding a fantastic and under appreciated string.
Love the sound and love the feel. I love to grab the basses with the PFs on them (3), just because I love the feel. The three basses that have them won't get anything else on them. No need to look any further.
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Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
How much difference in tension? The light are just a wee bit floppy for me, but I don't want to move to bridge cables.
Then try the CM3050 (45-60-80-105). The same G and D with heavier A and E.
It's certainly noticeable. Math isn't subjective (at least not yet), but feel certainly is. I wouldn't say they feel like TI flats, but do go in that direction a little. I can't stand cables either, and the Mediums work well for me. So if you've tried TIs and didn't like them, go with the something a littler higher and you should be fine.
I just ordered a set of the GHS light gauge flats and a set of Dunlop flats too. I have EB Cobalt flats on my P Basses, but I am interested in seeing how these both work on them. I already have Dunlops on my Hofners, and like them, so I kinda know what I'm getting. But I haven't used the GHS flats in a quite a while, so I am interested to see how the light gauge will sound. From everything I'm hearing here, I'm excited to find out. The prices were right so I thought why not?
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Long scale? Absolutely, I love them. They're not my personal number one favourite flats (that would be TI Jazz Flats) but they are very nice strings indeed!
Short scale? No way. I found the 45-95 Precision Flats so floppy that they couldn't even hold a steady enough pitch to be intonated properly. They just went "boing" with a HUGE difference in pitch between the attack and the sustain. Absolutely horrible. Why do string manufacturers insist on using these tiny gauges for short scale? The tension on these is probably the equivalent of 40-90 on a long scale, if not less!
Come on GHS, I know you can do better for us short scale lovers! If you insist on selling these floppy ultra-light gauge strings for short scale, why can't you at least give us the CHOICE of heavier gauges? It's sets like this one that gives short scale basses a bad reputation (floppy E etc.).
Short scale? No way. I found the 45-95 Precision Flats so floppy that they couldn't even hold a steady enough pitch to be intonated properly. They just went "boing" with a HUGE difference in pitch between the attack and the sustain. Absolutely horrible. Why do string manufacturers insist on using these tiny gauges for short scale? The tension on these is probably the equivalent of 40-90 on a long scale, if not less!
Come on GHS, I know you can do better for us short scale lovers! If you insist on selling these floppy ultra-light gauge strings for short scale, why can't you at least give us the CHOICE of heavier gauges? It's sets like this one that gives short scale basses a bad reputation (floppy E etc.).
I’ve got a set of GHS Precision Flats on my Ibanez AEB5E acoustic bass. I’ve had them for about six months and I’m enjoying them. I don’t see them coming off anytime soon.
My favorites are still the TIJFs on my Squier VM Fretless Jazz, though.
My favorites are still the TIJFs on my Squier VM Fretless Jazz, though.
I'm a hoarder when it comes to flatwound strings, in my collection I have: TI JF344's, Chromes, Ernie Ball Group III's, Dunlops, Dogal & LaBella 760 FL's. At the top of my stack are the lite gauge GHS Precision flats. Just put a set of the lites with a .127 B on my Music Man SR5. Love everything about them, sound, feel and tension. I doubt they'll feel sticky in the summer time humidity.
The GHS P Flats have a nice "satiny and silky" feel, which I really like, compared to the "glossy and glassy" finish of La Bella DTF's, which can get sticky.
Twice I've given the LaBella LTF's a go.......I can't hang with strings that are highly polished.
I just put the GHS light gauge flats on my Squier CV 60's P-Bass. These strings feel absolutely great! Silky smooth and nice deep tone. The tension of these strings is wonderful on this bass, the neck is almost completely straight with nice low action and no buzzing! I can feel the notes resonating on this bass now. All that is left to do is to break them in. Very happy indeed. Nothing bad about the Ernie Ball Colbalts that were on the bass before, but I think the GHS is a better fit and gauge for this particular bass. Very happy.
So I have a set of the 45-95’s that were gifted to me three years ago for my birthday and they’ve been in constant use ever since. The first two years mostly on a VM Jazz 70’s after brief runs on a Stingray and a VM Jazz 60’s but more recently on a CV60’s Precision and now a Player Jazz.
Imo they have fantastic feel. Wonderfully smooth almost from the beginning with a pretty quick break in period with no weird sonic artifacts while getting there.
As stated further below, on this light set the E & A strings are just a bit looser/floppier in feel than the D & G strings. Tonally however, they’re very well balanced. The E doesn’t feel out of sorts compared to the others. This leads to them working very well on my Jazzes in particular. I want to get the next heavier set for my P bass though because for some reason I tend to play a P more aggressively than a J. I also want to start using a pick a la Bobby Vega/Carole Kaye.
Tonally, they made the lo-mids on my P pop out in a most delicious sort of way and as this set is now on my Jazz I want to put another set on this one.
I then put them on my Players Jazz and OMG, feel & tone to die for! Smooth but thumpy with a darkish clarity to them. I wasn’t planning on this but sometimes things have a way of working out in a awesome but unexpected way. I think the long headswapping travels for these strings are over.
This is off the Player Jazz where they currently reside.
When you say the Cobalts, did you mean the flats or the rounds?
Imo they have fantastic feel. Wonderfully smooth almost from the beginning with a pretty quick break in period with no weird sonic artifacts while getting there.
As stated further below, on this light set the E & A strings are just a bit looser/floppier in feel than the D & G strings. Tonally however, they’re very well balanced. The E doesn’t feel out of sorts compared to the others. This leads to them working very well on my Jazzes in particular. I want to get the next heavier set for my P bass though because for some reason I tend to play a P more aggressively than a J. I also want to start using a pick a la Bobby Vega/Carole Kaye.
Tonally, they made the lo-mids on my P pop out in a most delicious sort of way and as this set is now on my Jazz I want to put another set on this one.
I then put them on my Players Jazz and OMG, feel & tone to die for! Smooth but thumpy with a darkish clarity to them. I wasn’t planning on this but sometimes things have a way of working out in a awesome but unexpected way. I think the long headswapping travels for these strings are over.
Not I! They’re the smoothest string I’ve ever played but fwiw I’m a relative noob to flats. I love the way they feel.In my quest to find the perfect strings (for me), I have tried many. I didn't discover flats until recently though, starting with the fat LaBella Original with the 110 E. Wanting more growl - and less tension to be honest - I went back to round wound for a bit. I popped into Chicago Music exchange and asked Marc for some good flats, and he gave me the light set of ghs precision flats. I never would have considered light gauge on my own, but man am I glad I got these. Warm, defined and SO SMOOTH! I couldn't put the bass down! Something about how they grind the wrap makes them super smooth and not shiny, polished, which can feel sticky to me. Anyway, I got another set for my Jazz, then figured I have to see what the TI hype was just to sleep better at night. Put them on the Jazz, and they sound great, but the feel of the GHS wins hands down for me. I guess just because I'm nuts, does anyone know of another string that is smoother to play on?
I’ve had this set pictured on 5 different basses, 2 of them twice, and while the silks have admittedly by now taken a bit of a beating but they’re still holding tune and sounding great. Zero issue with the E string going around the tuner post either.
This is off the Player Jazz where they currently reside.
I’ll have to do this when I get my next set for my P bass. I have the light set and they’re great but to me, the E & A are just a bit looser in feel than the D & G which to me are about perfect.
Your experience is the same as mine when I had them on my CV60’s P. They just made the lo-mids pop out. I actually had to loosen the truss rod on mine just a touch.
When you say the Cobalts, did you mean the flats or the rounds?
