That sounds consistent with @bobomatic said looks like it's time for me to run out and pick some up for myself.
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TapeWound Club~Anyone?
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Just tried my first set of tapewounds (D'Addario, because that's what the store had).
So far I am really liking them! I put them on my EBMM Cutlass (a passive model, like a P bass). I have TI flats on a couple other basses and like those, but am digging the feel of these tapewounds.
Just wanted to join another club...
So far I am really liking them! I put them on my EBMM Cutlass (a passive model, like a P bass). I have TI flats on a couple other basses and like those, but am digging the feel of these tapewounds.
Just wanted to join another club...
Absolutely love the Labella copper white nylon set on my fretless pbass , smooth to touch, comfort playing and good tone even output are little lower compare to Flatwound string.
The Ti flat feel stiffer in my hand currently.
The Ti flat feel stiffer in my hand currently.
I found a quick way to mitigate the hum with tapewounds by modifying an excellent fix suggested previously by Otto (will try to find that post).
I taped a piece of picture wire (it was all I had) to the bridge, sticking one end in a hollow saddle to help it stay on.
The other end looped through a belt loop so the wire is touching my belly. (He had originally wrapped the wire around his wrist but that didn’t work for me).
It grounds the strings but I can also take off the bass easily and switch instruments.
I’ll find a more elegant long term solution but this is working quick and dirty. Bye bye hum!
(Second photo shows entire length of wire)
I taped a piece of picture wire (it was all I had) to the bridge, sticking one end in a hollow saddle to help it stay on.
The other end looped through a belt loop so the wire is touching my belly. (He had originally wrapped the wire around his wrist but that didn’t work for me).
It grounds the strings but I can also take off the bass easily and switch instruments.
I’ll find a more elegant long term solution but this is working quick and dirty. Bye bye hum!
(Second photo shows entire length of wire)
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I don’t know- This is my first set of tapewounds, but it seems to be an issue with all brands of this style.
Some days it’s not bad but today the hum was super annnoying, maybe because I had a fan on. This took care of it.
April already?.....
Not at all.
It’s cheap and quick. Not my idea, I just adapted someone else’s.
Here’s the original idea from a prior thread. It worked for me.
I'm late to the party ... but thinking these new types of string may solve a problem for me.
So can anyone suggest a tape wound that sounds like nickel rounds (or worn-in nickel rounds, for preference) but feels like a flat, to my plucking hand ?
(Or does that describe all of them ?)
So can anyone suggest a tape wound that sounds like nickel rounds (or worn-in nickel rounds, for preference) but feels like a flat, to my plucking hand ?
(Or does that describe all of them ?)
Im liking the labellas - very bright. Whites are brighter. I use the darks and they are still quite bright...
Personally I'm looking for the less-bright end of the scale. I shall look up those 'darks'.
Those are copper white tapes. Optically i would have preferred Gold Whites, but it is really hard to get them in Germany.
The darks i have heard were really fat and dark. Yes, LaBellas.
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Picked the D'Addario (black) tapes on the recommendation of Jason at BSO (BSO will rise again!). Absolutely, positively, completely happy with them. And the blue silks finish the look.
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Dependent on the bass itself and the music they can be either great or awful.
