I'm starting to think that these are my old Pressure Wounds. Does this macro shot confirm it for anyone?
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That's great news. I have a newish-to-me G&L and was wanting to try some on it. Now I can try the ones I paid for 10 years ago instead of buying a new set and hoping for the best.
Thanks to everyone who helped figure it out!
Thanks to everyone who helped figure it out!
Yes, agree with @michael_t….Pressurewounds. The macro shot certainly helps!
Pressurewounds top, old black silk Polished Rounds/Brite Flats bottom in image below…
Just because I know that you were all losing sleep over this, I put most of the Pressurewound set that you helped me identify back on (couldn't get the G on there, because it was cut for a 2+2 headstock and the G&L they are going on has the tuners all in a row, like good Leo soldiers. But, I was able to play enough this weekend to convince myself that they were the right first string change for this bass.
Have a new set on the way.
Have a new set on the way.
A few weeks into playing my L-1000 with GHS Pressurewounds and I'm pretty happy.
I had used them before on another bass and generally liked them for a while, but never really got the sounds that I wanted out of that bass with any string that I tried and moved on to some other strings chasing it.
On this bass, I feel like that can be in that timbre of modern flatwounds, but can also bring the modern P-Bass thing with a little attitude and snarl. They are very pickup friendly strings, so I can drive them or keep them mellow. I'm not a slap/pop guy, but short of that, I really can't imagine a genre or situation that I wouldn't cover well.
The first few days, I wasn't totally sure. They're not as smooth or as mellow as flat wounds, they also lack that pingy, ringly bell-like vibe. 20 hours or so of playing and my brain processes them as smooth feeling (they definitely don't have those roundwound ridges) and the bright overtones are tame, unless I deliberately focus them in.
Not for you if you use DR Hi-Beams and change them every week, because you want that fresh, bright ping. If you really want LaBella DTF, they aren't quite that either, but they may be close to a less traditional flat wound tone.
If I don't use these permanently, I think that I will always have a set in my string box ready to go.
I had used them before on another bass and generally liked them for a while, but never really got the sounds that I wanted out of that bass with any string that I tried and moved on to some other strings chasing it.
On this bass, I feel like that can be in that timbre of modern flatwounds, but can also bring the modern P-Bass thing with a little attitude and snarl. They are very pickup friendly strings, so I can drive them or keep them mellow. I'm not a slap/pop guy, but short of that, I really can't imagine a genre or situation that I wouldn't cover well.
The first few days, I wasn't totally sure. They're not as smooth or as mellow as flat wounds, they also lack that pingy, ringly bell-like vibe. 20 hours or so of playing and my brain processes them as smooth feeling (they definitely don't have those roundwound ridges) and the bright overtones are tame, unless I deliberately focus them in.
Not for you if you use DR Hi-Beams and change them every week, because you want that fresh, bright ping. If you really want LaBella DTF, they aren't quite that either, but they may be close to a less traditional flat wound tone.
If I don't use these permanently, I think that I will always have a set in my string box ready to go.
