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Sorted! Thanks to all, released the string think it was twisted, pressed in the witness Mark as read, now it growls, sounds great for a cheep bass.

Being a very inexperienced new player, I've not bought that many string sets ( 3) to build a reference point. Just acquired an, as new- Ibanez gsr200 bargain ,wanted a cheapo extra bass to keep in my van to practice. Then I put on a set of Fender flat wounds @ 46 quid. The A ,D and G all sound really good, and massive improvement to the originals, BUT the E string! Hard to explain the sound, its as if affects echo has been applied, and fretting the low F is not a nice tone`. My question is : Do you sometimes get one bad string in a pack? as a note ; I also removed the 9 volt cheep preamp, thinking it could be the problem, I did not like the sound anyway ,made no difference to the problem, but now as a passive set up, it sounds a bit cleaner. Thanks