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What strings do you use on your fretless?
- Thread starter Tsal
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Yo!
I dont own my own fretless (yet), but i will as soon as i've sold my guitar. In the meantime (there has been 2 years now! man....), i've been borrowing my uncle's MIA fretless.
These are the strings i've tried on it, and my opinion:
Rotosound 66 PSD's: Great tone, very much overtones and brigthness when played "open". I found it hard to get a mellow, sweet, singing tone, but that may have come from the heavy ash body in teh bass. More "meow" than "mwah" though, and they was VERY buzzy when you lost the control of them. If its good enough for Jaco.....
Rotosound Tru Bass Nylons: Whoa....cool strings. They feel very soft and rubbery, has a very low tension and a "rubbery" tone. Very fat tone, and it let me imitate an uprigth when playing near the neck. Its "fingerboard" clacking were very musical, and gave it a really fat mwaaah.
WHAT? Only two packs of strings? That means i've been using the same strings for a year now?!
Time to change them i guess....maybe i'll try T-I Jazz Flats next?
Cheers!
-Erlend
I dont own my own fretless (yet), but i will as soon as i've sold my guitar. In the meantime (there has been 2 years now! man....), i've been borrowing my uncle's MIA fretless.
These are the strings i've tried on it, and my opinion:
Rotosound 66 PSD's: Great tone, very much overtones and brigthness when played "open". I found it hard to get a mellow, sweet, singing tone, but that may have come from the heavy ash body in teh bass. More "meow" than "mwah" though, and they was VERY buzzy when you lost the control of them. If its good enough for Jaco.....
Rotosound Tru Bass Nylons: Whoa....cool strings. They feel very soft and rubbery, has a very low tension and a "rubbery" tone. Very fat tone, and it let me imitate an uprigth when playing near the neck. Its "fingerboard" clacking were very musical, and gave it a really fat mwaaah.
WHAT? Only two packs of strings? That means i've been using the same strings for a year now?!
Time to change them i guess....maybe i'll try T-I Jazz Flats next?
Cheers!
-Erlend
I have flatwounds on right now (can't remember whose, maybe Thomastik, but does it really matter) and got favorable feedback from people that prefer I play upright.
Someday I will epoxy the neck of my cheap Coit Artisan, put on some RotoSound roundwounds and go to town - Jaco Lives! The best compliment will be someone asking "Hey Kid, do you play electric also?"
Someday I will epoxy the neck of my cheap Coit Artisan, put on some RotoSound roundwounds and go to town - Jaco Lives! The best compliment will be someone asking "Hey Kid, do you play electric also?"
Just bought a Yam RBX270F. I'm hopeing I 'might' be able to get a kinda 'slap bass' effect. The standard strings supplied (whatever they are) are ok but the sound isn't quite right. Anyone any idea what strings might be worth trying?
Great guitar for the money . .
Great guitar for the money . .
