Substituting Elixir for Rotosound Swing Bass

which are not usual flats, but are rough and heavy. if you want to try flats, maybe you should try D'Addario Chromes or GHS Precision flats, or Labella Deep Talking.

mostly played with flats

rounds sound bright, flats don't. flats keep their tone and intonation forever, rounds have a lifespan of at least some months before they start to lose intonation (not tuning!) and sounding dead.

let us know and in particular, post a picture to understand which flats you have on.

 

Roundwounds are where it's at! Flats are so....50's. A lot has changed since then

 

McCartney and Donald Dunn have never used rounds: McCartney used to play with Maxima strings on his Rickenbacker (they were the stock strings on Ricks on those days) and Pyramid/Hofner on his Hofner.
now that Maxima don't exist anymore, he uses Thomastik flats on the Rick. still Pyramid flats on the Hofner.

Donald Dunn have always used Labella 52-110 flats since the Staxx days.

 

Uh-oh...

 

What kind of strings did McCartney use on the Wal 5 string in the late 80's?

 

I would certainly hope not any kind of flatwound. That would be like my son putting flatwounds on his Dingwall Combustion.

 

Not 100% accurate. Duck wasn't against throwing a set of rounds on here and there. According to Rob Bowman in Soulsville, USA, Duck even used rounds on Hip Hug-Her.

 

Bob Babbitt was using GHS Boomers as well.