TI Flats - Are these made for mice?

[mikeswals]

I couldn't hang with the TI's either, like playing a wet noodle.

I bought two sets and strung up both my P's. They were so light, they wouldn't pull any forward bow on the neck of my '82 P, and that was with the truss rod completely loosened! So they weren't on for probably more than a day or two.
A TB member bought one set, the other set I gave to a kid who joined his high-school jazz band.

 

[ljazz]

i have tried a lot of different flatwound strings over the years,it's amazing how much difference there is in tension/feel/sound in this string type. the ti's sound great,but i cannot get used to playing them,but love even less hi-tension klangy flats like fender/chromes. i still prefer pyramid flats to everything i have tried,but you had better love a competely dead e string sound,cause thats what u get! if you play the e string with a pick,it comes across nicely,tho. the other problem i have noticed with ti strings is that the surface of the strings is not particularly smooth and tends to "grab" on a glissando.

Once broken in, they no longer "grab"..... It's the coating they have on there. When I first started using them, I was about ready to pull them off because of that. It almost feels like rosin.

Once it came off, I noticed a slight bump in my gain to the amp.... my clip light was coming on, so I had to adjust. Perhaps the coating interfered a bit with the magnetism of the string????? Anyway, they stiffened up, and are as smooth as any other flat.

Ljazz

 

[Darkstrike]

Tune then up a fourth then come back and talk to me.

Thats what I'd do if the tension was too low, BEAD tuned up to EADG.



But then, I'm used to the low tension.

I went and tested this plan on my fretless, EADG up to ADGC, tension is just lighter that a pack of Rotosound SH77's, and sounds like heaven, smooth as butter!