I thought I'd pop in on this lazy Pre-NewYearsEve Saturday. I thought I'd just share this for discussion. Sorry if I got a little verbose. I'm currently taking Prednisone and it can make me way chatty (and unfiltered) :0.
My taking to Ernie Ball Slinky bass strings has been a somewhat unusual path. It began when I bought a Gio 6er (206b) for dirt and the strings on it must have been put on when LBJ was president :0. When I'm talking cheap, I mean $100 with Roadrunner case. While I was messing with this bass I installed a $10 cheap Chinese 3 band preamp, but I wanted new strings. The EB Slinkys were the cheapest I could find for this 6er. And OMG, did this bass start to sound good and feel good too.
Then it was time to re-string my Ibanez BTB675 which had been on a steady diet of NYXL's. At the time I thought the NYXL's were perfect, but wasn't sure I was going to keep the BTB. So, being the cheapskate that I am, I went, again, too EB Slinkys. I was stunned at how much I really liked these strings on my BTB675. In fact the BTB became my defacto #1 in rotation! The touch, the feel the sound. I liked the resistance that they gave my plucking hand.
My MIM Fender Jazz 5 has had DR Sunbeams on it forever but they had recently been changed, I was wondering how the EB Slinkys might sound on that bass. It was a cloudy, rainy miserable day, so what the heck. The Slinkys do have a tighter feel than the Sunbeams and a somewhat similar sound. But the one thing that I notice on my Jazz bass is that the EBS's emit an unusual set of overtones/harmonics! I think I like the touch of the Sunbeams better, but there is something compelling about the gestalt of my Jazz 5 with the Slinkys. The sound just has that something extra on this bass that isn't so obvious on my others.
My taking to Ernie Ball Slinky bass strings has been a somewhat unusual path. It began when I bought a Gio 6er (206b) for dirt and the strings on it must have been put on when LBJ was president :0. When I'm talking cheap, I mean $100 with Roadrunner case. While I was messing with this bass I installed a $10 cheap Chinese 3 band preamp, but I wanted new strings. The EB Slinkys were the cheapest I could find for this 6er. And OMG, did this bass start to sound good and feel good too.
Then it was time to re-string my Ibanez BTB675 which had been on a steady diet of NYXL's. At the time I thought the NYXL's were perfect, but wasn't sure I was going to keep the BTB. So, being the cheapskate that I am, I went, again, too EB Slinkys. I was stunned at how much I really liked these strings on my BTB675. In fact the BTB became my defacto #1 in rotation! The touch, the feel the sound. I liked the resistance that they gave my plucking hand.
My MIM Fender Jazz 5 has had DR Sunbeams on it forever but they had recently been changed, I was wondering how the EB Slinkys might sound on that bass. It was a cloudy, rainy miserable day, so what the heck. The Slinkys do have a tighter feel than the Sunbeams and a somewhat similar sound. But the one thing that I notice on my Jazz bass is that the EBS's emit an unusual set of overtones/harmonics! I think I like the touch of the Sunbeams better, but there is something compelling about the gestalt of my Jazz 5 with the Slinkys. The sound just has that something extra on this bass that isn't so obvious on my others.
