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TI Flats are oh so Good!!!
- Thread starter Bassworship1
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It's HEAVENLY.
You were right ! I couldn't quite dial in what I wanted to hear on my Jazz Flats E string with my Rumble 500 head, but my new Ampeg PF-50T delivered it in spades.
I keep hearing this from different sources. My only concern is the gauge of the E and A string (.089 and .068).TI Jazz Rounds are the Best round wound strings!
They are rather small but feel like musical instrument strings, not bridge cables. Being as low in tension as they are does require a bit of retraining for some, but for me, they are just what I needed for my playing.
And they sound superb, too.
And they sound superb, too.
TI flats on my Ibanez ATK are a-mazing!!! A and B'd them with the Chromes that were already on there and holy moly the TIs are fantastic sounding. Only issue is the rubber bandy feel they have. At standard pitch, I'll manage. But when my band records our EP this summer, I'll have to switch back to the Chromes since I already know they'll handle half step down and dropped as I discovered last month. But for standard tuning, man these TI work great on this bass. Still MUCH prefer the Tapewounds on the fretless though... or maybe it's the bass prefers the Tapewounds lol.
For years I used DR Low Riders on this bass so I was quite used to the... hmm... intense stiffness. Helped with a super punchy low mid grunt that the ATK is known for. Then I switched to D'addario Pro Steels just to save a bit of money every month. So compared to both of those, the TIs are rather loosey goosy. I'm used to really beatin the crap out of my old Ibanez. Doesn't really react the same way with a light touch. But over the last year I've made an effort to play with higher volume settings on my amps to force myself to play with a lighter touch.
I hear that. If I would have had years of playing higher tension strings I would probably they calling them rubbery as well.
My first year back playing bass I used one of the lighter sets of slinkys on my Peavey Foundation, so it wasn't as big of a jump.
JF344 just arrived.
Update
I put this JF344 on my Squier Cv60P yesterday.
This JF344 have similiar tension and stiffness like LTF4A , the .070 A string is NOT flabby at all. I can get the action low to 2mm on E string and 1.5mm on G string at 17th fret without single fret buzz.
Tone is something like Sadowsky Black label flat 40-100 , but the D and G sound is close to aged roundwound string with NO Fresh Zing and louder than others flatwound D/G string i use before.
After adjust the pickup height, overall tone output is well balance from string to string.
This JF344 is lack of some classic thump even roll off the tone than LTF4A, she present nice warm and thick MID range with better sustain.
Honestly, if i willing to spend the money for JF344 in the earlier , i can save the money from Sadow black label 40-100, Chrome ECB81 , Fender 9050L and 9050CL.(all modern vibe Flatwound string).
For you Split coil P bass guy who wanna move to flatwound but love the aged roundwound sound from 40/45-100 gauge ; resist with the natural high tension/stiffness of most flatwound string and No such time to wait for broke-in periold , i highly recommand Ti JF344.
Hope help and thanks for reading.
Update
I put this JF344 on my Squier Cv60P yesterday.
This JF344 have similiar tension and stiffness like LTF4A , the .070 A string is NOT flabby at all. I can get the action low to 2mm on E string and 1.5mm on G string at 17th fret without single fret buzz.
Tone is something like Sadowsky Black label flat 40-100 , but the D and G sound is close to aged roundwound string with NO Fresh Zing and louder than others flatwound D/G string i use before.
After adjust the pickup height, overall tone output is well balance from string to string.
This JF344 is lack of some classic thump even roll off the tone than LTF4A, she present nice warm and thick MID range with better sustain.
Honestly, if i willing to spend the money for JF344 in the earlier , i can save the money from Sadow black label 40-100, Chrome ECB81 , Fender 9050L and 9050CL.(all modern vibe Flatwound string).
For you Split coil P bass guy who wanna move to flatwound but love the aged roundwound sound from 40/45-100 gauge ; resist with the natural high tension/stiffness of most flatwound string and No such time to wait for broke-in periold , i highly recommand Ti JF344.
Hope help and thanks for reading.
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They are small but I'm about used to it. Took some adjustments, and a lighter touch. But wow they sure sound nice. Not the brightest rounds out there but they really punch and have a lot of mid presence much like the flats.
Hijack: the rounds are really growing on me. Coupla gigs and they're settling in nicely. Was afraid the nut would be too loose but it's fine. The strings are bendy but wow they sound really good so far. Very slinky but I'm digging that. They don't fret out. Weird. Cool.
Really diggin the flats on my Ibanez. It's as if they sound better day by day. Can't believe they still have quite a bit of that "new string" top end considering how much I've played on them. And that low B? Fogghet ah bout it. Best this bass has ever sounded.
Cool how they bend, eh,? You can dig into them and get great sounds. Or be chill and still great tones. IME.
I thought after playing them first on my fretless that I put them on my fretted I'd have to take the same approach i.e. barely touch the strings. However, they react quite differently on the ol Ibanez so as the days have gone by, I can actually lay into them like the normal rounds I played for years. I'm not really a bender but, the ease at which they move is nice for some subtle vibrato.
They play differently on different basses, sure. But yeah! Dig the mids.........!
I got a set of the JF344s a couple weeks ago. Put them on my MIA Pbass and really liked them. After adjusting the truss rod a bit and turning down the tone knob a bit more than i had it i was very happy with the tone. But i wasn't happy with the Cobalts on my MIA Jazz. Today i was fooling around on the J and turned the bridge pup down about 3/4 of the way and loved it-except the single coil hum. Then found when i boosted the 250kHz band on the EQ about 6dB with both pups on full it was a pretty similar tone, but i did not like the P going through that same setting-was too much low mids from the TIs. So i wound up trading strings to try out the TIs on the Jazz and WOW!!! Exactly what i wanted with the EQ mostly flat how i usually set it! But now i really don't like the Cobalts on the P, so those will be relegated to backup duty and i'm going to order a set of the LaBella low tensions and give those a shot on that.
