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Time to switch to Dunlop Super Brights!!!

#963
I've had a set of the nickels 40-120 on now for around 4 months. I usually change them out after about a month but I'm amazed at how good they sound dead and after this long. Unlike any other run of the mill hex core rounds these stay supple and become almost flatwound in the low end but keep a mid range burp and growl with enough top end still available. Truly the most unique nickel rounds I've tried.
 
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#964
Jaimelarumba said:
I've had a set of the nickels 40-120 on now for around 4 months. I usually change them out after about a month but I'm amazed at how good they sound dead and after this long. Unlike any other run of the mill hex core rounds these stay supple and become almost flatwound in the low end but keep a mid range burp and growl with enough top end still available. Truly the most unique nickel rounds I've tried.
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13 months later for me, and still not dead yet.
 
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Jaimelarumba said:
I've had a set of the nickels 40-120 on now for around 4 months. I usually change them out after about a month but I'm amazed at how good they sound dead and after this long. Unlike any other run of the mill hex core rounds these stay supple and become almost flatwound in the low end but keep a mid range burp and growl with enough top end still available. Truly the most unique nickel rounds I've tried.
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Your post describes exactly why I love these strings.
 
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#966
So I have these Guitar Factory 4 and 5-string neck-thru booteeky basses, and the 4 has Sperzel tuners, and I've not been able to put SB Nickels on it because the fat part of the string winds around the E tuner and snaps it. This has made me reticent to try them on the 5, which has Schallers. The posts are wider on the Schallers but not by much. Anyway I finally decided to give it a shot, so I got the 40-120 set and they came today and I just tried the B string.

It didn't break! And it sounds a whole lot better to me with them, and it's making me mad I can't use them on the 4 without breaking the E. The 4 also has a Kahler whammy bridge, so any sort of string extension tricks are out. Sucks. That's the last of my long scale basses to be converted. All they'd have to do is make the E's speaking length an inch shorter, maybe even a half inch. I guess it fits Fenders better this way so I get it, but I can't be the only one who could use a shorter speaking length on their E to keep it from breaking on Sperzels, am I?
 
#967
JimmyM said:
So I have these Guitar Factory 4 and 5-string neck-thru booteeky basses, and the 4 has Sperzel tuners, and I've not been able to put SB Nickels on it because the fat part of the string winds around the E tuner and snaps it. This has made me reticent to try them on the 5, which has Schallers. The posts are wider on the Schallers but not by much. Anyway I finally decided to give it a shot, so I got the 40-120 set and they came today and I just tried the B string.

It didn't break! And it sounds a whole lot better to me with them, and it's making me mad I can't use them on the 4 without breaking the E. The 4 also has a Kahler whammy bridge, so any sort of string extension tricks are out. Sucks. That's the last of my long scale basses to be converted. All they'd have to do is make the E's speaking length an inch shorter, maybe even a half inch. I guess it fits Fenders better this way so I get it, but I can't be the only one who could use a shorter speaking length on their E to keep it from breaking on Sperzels, am I?
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Weird. Usually for me, if strings are too long, its too long for my fender Jaguar. I'm looking at you DR.
 
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JimmyM said:
So I have these Guitar Factory 4 and 5-string neck-thru booteeky basses, and the 4 has Sperzel tuners, and I've not been able to put SB Nickels on it because the fat part of the string winds around the E tuner and snaps it. This has made me reticent to try them on the 5, which has Schallers. The posts are wider on the Schallers but not by much. Anyway I finally decided to give it a shot, so I got the 40-120 set and they came today and I just tried the B string.

It didn't break! And it sounds a whole lot better to me with them, and it's making me mad I can't use them on the 4 without breaking the E. The 4 also has a Kahler whammy bridge, so any sort of string extension tricks are out. Sucks. That's the last of my long scale basses to be converted. All they'd have to do is make the E's speaking length an inch shorter, maybe even a half inch. I guess it fits Fenders better this way so I get it, but I can't be the only one who could use a shorter speaking length on their E to keep it from breaking on Sperzels, am I?
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You can't have ANY wraps going around the posts with Sperzel tuners. You should be able to pull them straight through and tune in about 1/4 turn, that's how those tuners are designed. Any more and they will snap the strings. Probably why you don't see them used anymore.

I couldn't find a picture of a bass with them, but the strings should look like this when tuned to pitch..same idea:


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#969
mmbongo said:
You can't have ANY wraps going around the posts with Sperzel tuners. You should be able to pull them straight through and tune in about 1/4 turn, that's how those tuners are designed. Any more and they will snap the strings. Probably why you don't see them used anymore.

I couldn't find a picture of a bass with them, but the strings should look like this when tuned to pitch..same idea:

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The reason I never do that is because the strings snap the moment you loosen them, and I take them off to soak them in alcohol when they go dead. However, this is a bass that mostly sees home use, and the strings always last a lot longer, so I will give that a shot. If I snap the string, though, I will expect reimbursement :D

EDIT: OK, maybe you're onto something. It seems to be holding so far. I guess I'll string it with the other 3 and see what happens. Hope it can take whammying.

EDIT 2: The E string was fine with whammying, but I broke two D strings at the bridge in rapid succession. So it looks like the 4-string will require me to stick with D'addarios unless I want to forget about whammying, which I don't. What's odd, though, is the E string came off without breaking, which is something that's never happened when I've installed strings with less than a full wrap. I guess I should focus more on the good news that I can use them with my 5, but I'm out a set + a second D string since they won't fit any of my other basses now that they've been cut. That's OK...I'll just return one of my grandkids' Christmas presents to make up for it.
 
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#973
Jamie_Funk said:
FINALLY - the 5 string set is available with a .130 B - tapered too!

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Me so happy :)
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have you got that new set? what's the length of the small taper part measured just after the ball end?


Chad T said:
Yay! I’ve been buying the 6 string sets to get the 130 and ditching the skinny string. Won’t have to do that anymore.
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is the 130 B from 6 string set tapered also?
 
#977
SLaPiNFuNK said:
A week from now.
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I will definitely be ordering some ASAP - been buying the 6 string set for the last couple years to get the .130 (most cost effective way) but then have a pile of unused C strings gathering dust - glad to have the 5 string set with a .130 now, AND excited to try the tapered version - I really like the current non-tapered .130, so I imagine (based on my prior experience with tapered B strings) I will love this one :)

J
 
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