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[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1373608895' post='2139523'] If everyone does their homework away from band , or individuals get together to work out parts or harmonies, then the full band is not that regular, that could still be more effective than a band who does weekly session where no one comes prepared or organsied. There are no rules, just goals. Having said that, even I'd it worked, would he be free to gig ? [/quote] I wouldn't disagree with this but the singer still needs to rehearse like everyone else.

[quote name='Stompbox' timestamp='1373584594' post='2139471'] I know where you guys are coming from - I've now got D'Addario Chromes on my Jazz - excellent - and a set of Fender flatwound on a fretless Peavey Foundation. By way of a slightly different question - I know you're talking about flatwounds here, but the subject of string tension has come up - what brand would you say has the lowest tension roundwound strings? I've got my P bass with Rotosound on 45/105 s fitted & they really do seem tight/hard to play. Chers. [/quote] I haven't used rounds for many years so I'm not a good source - however, I did try some TI Jazz Rounds (43-51-68-89) a few years back and, like the TI flats, they were very low tension.

[quote name='SlapbassSteve' timestamp='1373584892' post='2139476'] I really really want one of these, £273 is disgustingly cheap. Can't wait to see some reviews on youtube, and actually try one out... just think, they'll be selling for £150-200 second hand in a year or so [/quote] There are two Youtube demos linked in this thread. If these only get made for a short time - as has happened before - then they'll be fetching more than £200 in a year or so but I hope you are correct.

I'd say if he can't rehearse then he shouldn't have been auditioned. But only you know how your band works.

[quote name='acidbass' timestamp='1373574400' post='2139283'] +1 to a certain extent. I put a new set of La Bella 760FLs on the other week and had to turn the treble down on the amp - when the neck pickup was solo'ed it sounded like JJ Burnel! [/quote] Entwistle on My Generation is playing a Jazz bass with flatwounds.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1245163620' post='515397'] ... and whatever Entwistle used on 'My Generation'. [/quote] [quote name='The Bass Doc' timestamp='1245166740' post='515451'] That was a Fender Jazz - with flatwounds on!!! Read it in an old interview in Bassist mag many moons ago. (or it might have been Beat Instrumental). [/quote] [quote] On the recording of My Generation: “I bought this Danelectro bass and it had these tiny, thin wirewound strings on. They were so thin, they sounded just like a piano, an unbelievably clear sound. The only thing was that you couldn’t buy these strings. When we recorded ‘My Generation’ I ended up with three of these Danelectros just for the strings. The last one I had, the string busted before we actually got into the studio to re-record it, so I did it on a Fender Jazz in the end with tape-wound La Bella strings.” “I played that solo on a Jazz bass with tapewound strings through a Marshall 50 watt and 4x12. Interestingly, the bass solos on the earlier takes were much more complicated, and played on a Danelectro which had a much more piano-like sound. It was a medium scale bass with a two-octave neck. The trouble was that the strings were so thin that I kept breaking them. We’d record during the day and, to finance the sessions, we were playing gigs nearly every night, and inevitably I’d break a string. None of the music shops had any replacement strings and no string manufacturers made replacement strings thin enough for Dano basses then, so I had to go down to Marshall’s and buy a new Dano for £60. I ended up with three new Danelectros, all with busted strings! In the end I busted my last string at the third attempt and there weren’t any more in the country. I thought, ‘f*** it’, and went and bought myself a Fender Jazz bass and a set of La Bella strings, and played the solo with that. But it was a different sound and a simplified, slowed-down version of the solos on previous takes.” [url="http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/bass/bass6066.html"]http://www.thewho.ne...s/bass6066.html[/url] [/quote]

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1373575334' post='2139306'] be careful if you are tempted to go for the black nylon wound flatwounds as they are usually a very heavy guage (but also low tension and very pliable) because of the significant increase in diameter you might need to cut the fret slots wider to accomodate the guage whereas if you go for steel or ncikel or such then you would probs stick with something liek a 40-100 or 45-105 set iirc from memory rotosound trubass come in at about 65-135 ish [/quote] Rotosound Trubass are 65-115 - their B string is 135

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1373573914' post='2139275'] Flatwounds will always sound "woolly and dead" that's really the point of them. You will never get that crisp clear sound you get from roundwounds. Some roundwound sets have a coating on them which is supposed to make them last longer. Never tried them so I don't know. Half/ground/pressure wound strings give a kind of halfway house between rounds and flats. Smooth to the touch as on flats and a little of the brightness of rounds. Then there's Thomastik Jazz Flats. I love them. Smooth to the touch, a bit of brightness and lighter tension. Yum. And they last forever. [/quote] I completely disagree with the claim that flats will always sound 'wooly and dead'.

[quote name='NigeH' timestamp='1373572737' post='2139253'] ... have roundwound strings evolved at all? ... [/quote] I guess you mean flatwound not roundwound. Anyway, some flatwounds are pretty much as they always were (e.g. La Bellas), while others are newer because they weren't around in earlier decades (e.g. TI Jazz Flats). As for flats sounding dead, it's just not true. Listen to most bass recordings from the sixties and seventies, most of it done with flatwounds, a bass with flatwounds can be very lively. However, I wouldn't judge flatwound strings (or any other kind of string) by what came fitted to a Satellite.

I'd like to make it. I've missed the last two. Could be bad date again though.

[quote name='Mr Fretbuzz' timestamp='1373565225' post='2139149'] They are the number 1 seller Drakers with Thomann.. 3000 sets sold but I read that there is a query over tension? [/quote] I'm not sure what you mean by 'there is a query' but TI Jazz Flats are very low tension.

[quote name='Phil Adams' timestamp='1373471411' post='2138032'] I've got Fender flats on a couple of my fretlesses. I find them not as smooth as the ones on my other fretless which I bought off ebay with the strings already on. Don't know what they are but they have black silk. Anyone know what they might be (with apology for the hi-jack) [/quote] La Bella 760FS have black silk. Lakland Joe Osborns also have black silk.

[quote name='Mr Fretbuzz' timestamp='1373565693' post='2139156'] Not sure but maybe La Bella 760 Black Nylon Tapewound ?? which are suitable for Fretless apparently [/quote] They have dark purple silk.

[quote name='dmz' timestamp='1373495133' post='2138383'] Wow - there's a Bass VI as well ! [url="http://www.keymusic.com/en/product/Squier-Vintage-Modified-Bass-VI-Olympic-White"]http://www.keymusic....I-Olympic-White[/url] ....who'd have thought...... [/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/211505-2013-squier-vintage-modified-bass-vi"]basschat.co.uk/topic/211505-2013-squier-vintage-modified-bass-vi[/url]

[quote name='Myke' timestamp='1373483624' post='2138202'] I like that you can see the grain through it [/quote] Was that the case with the slab 66s?

[url="http://www.bax-shop.nl/solid-body/squier-by-fender-vintage-modified-bass-vi-3-color-bariton-gitaar/product-details.html"]http://www.bax-shop.nl/solid-body/squier-by-fender-vintage-modified-bass-vi-3-color-bariton-gitaar/product-details.html[/url]

Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkbeVUMA3CM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMT9zJ1o_v4

I'd say that ... [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1373200877' post='2134588'] ... pedal for eight bars! ... [/quote] ... usually beats ... [quote name='jakenewmanbass' timestamp='1373201672' post='2134600'] ... untold fretw***ery ... [/quote] ... in a kind of Top Trumps way.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1373355707' post='2136460'] Joanne Joanne (all-girl Duran Duran tribute) [/quote] Surely that should be Doreen Doreen?