Tapewounds for Squier Jaguar H

[Timothy Brosnan]

I have a Squier Jaguar H bass, the 32” scale with Musicman shaped pickup. I was thinking about putting some Tapewound strings on it, to get that 60ish British Invasion type of sound. What do you guys recommend?

I know the bass players then in the UK probably used Rotosounds, but I haven’t liked their medium scale strings-the E string always seems to be bad(the long scale ones are good IME.)

Any ideas? Thank you ahead of time.

 

[pingvuiini]

D'Addario black tapes are very smooth and make absolutely no finger noise when you glissando. They also have enough 'zing' to them to slap with.

 

[Timothy Brosnan]

Thank you.

 

[iiipopes]

D'Addario are too floppy. I have a set of the regular gauge 60-115, medium scale, La Bella tapes on one of my mid-scale basses with a Jaguar H 32-inch scale neck but a different body for a different pickup configuration. The La Bella have the big round dark tone, but with sufficient tension as to not be floppy. You need the La Bella regular gauge 60-115 strings to have enough tension as to not be floppy because the nylon wrap has essentially no mass, so no increase of tension. The tape adds about 15 thou total to the diameter of the strings. So underneath the tape they are essentially a 45-100 set of conventional rounds.