Found myself having a bit of a sound crisis here.
Put some tapewounds on my Ibanez 5 string, which I really like to play, for general feel to the touch as well as the low tension contributing to a nice low action.
However clocked at rehearsal that that means they don't half clatter against the top frets. I've always had a little of this with rounds, but never particularly noticed other than thinking it was a bit Steve Harris. Anyway sounded really grim. More bad techniqueman blaming tools perhaps, but I put some Roto Jazz on, known for high tension, no truss rod tweak, and lo! it stops it happening.
But not as lovely and easy to play, especially when the joy of SRs for me was gliding about etc.
Of course NOW I'm thinking well, if I have to fight a bit, should reconsider swapping for more appropriate bass (and avoid heroics) as it might be less disappointing. Or just try and improve to get a bit more control. I can't actually work out how much of this is to justify looking at shiny new things to buy rather than a real problem 🙃