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Yes, you can.

I've used regular roundwounds, rotosound black tapewounds and thomastik flats in the past instead of the regular bronze ones. I've only used low tension type strings and light gauge roundwounds as I found I got best results with those. Be careful with heavy gauge higher tension strings though (although it will depend on what type of acoustic bass you have).

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That's a tricky one. Bronze strings have a nylon core and are lower tension, typically medium gauge. You'reouy going to use heavier gauge steel core strings, thus this will put more strain on the bridge. Depends how strong your cheapy is really. I'm reluctant to say do it in case it does tear the bridge off!

Let me know how you get on if you do try it ;-)

If you are going for higher tension strings, I would go slowly, gently and watch for any flexing of the bridge, body and neck as your tensioning the strings.

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I've had one of those ebay £60 jobbies for a good few years now and I string it with cheapy 'Pure Tone' nickel alloy rounds (45-105), it's only for picking up and bumming around with at home so I'm not too worried about tone and they only cost £4.49 a set :D , although they do sound alright anyway.
Point is, it's never had any issues with nickels on it, I rarely have to tune it much, if at all. The bass is made by 'Atrics' but looks identical to the 'Swift' ones on ebay, I bought mine before I ever saw the 'Swift' ones and I'm guessing they're just rebranded for whoever is selling them.

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