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[tom1946]

Hiya,
I've tried a few different brands of strings, mainly Rotosound, EB & fender but I can't afford to keep trying different ones.
I'm looking for 'quiet' roundwounds, in other words not noisy when your finger slides to another note quickly. I know flats are the way to go but they just sound dead to me, I play only in church situations and need sustain for a lot of the 'soft rock' type stuff that we do.

Sooo, any advice please?

(I did search first)

[Mog]

I use D'Addario Chromes. Really nice string. Have you considered using groundwounds? They'd be a bit brighter than flats.

[ikay]

How about coated roundwound strings such as Elixir? Don't use them myself but have heard that they reduce finger noise

[fatback]

[quote name='ikay' post='1112403' date='Feb 2 2011, 01:50 PM']How about coated roundwound strings such as Elixir? Don't use them myself but have heard that they reduce finger noise[/quote]


+1 for Elixir.

Little or no noise and they last forever. Nice feel too.

[hubrad]

+1 for groundwounds - some call them Halfrounds. Brighter than flats but thicker sounding than roundwound. Barely any finger-on-string noise at all.
I have them on a fretless with ash body.. my Rock bass!

[KiOgon]

GHS M3075 Brite Flats - the dogs danglies Seriously good 'almost smooth' feel & superb 'bright flats' sound.

I do like GHS strings better than any others I've tried

[tom1946]

Cheers for the response guys,
I will stick with rounds for now though, I'll buy a set of coated elixirs and see how it goes.

Thanks again.

[gsgbass]

D'Addario Nylons. Super, not anything like the old style tapewound nylons.