D'adarrio nickel half rounds

[KennysFord]

hey all.
does any one have experience with nickel half rounds ???
i just fitted a set and they feel very sticky.im just wondering if they'll play in or is that the way they are.
thanks in advance.

[john_the_bass]

Which ones have you got? I've had a set of ENR71 (I think that's the code) on my P bass for probably a year now, maybe more and never found them to be sticky at all.

[KennysFord]

thanks for the reply,
yeah,they're ENR71's.
sticky might not be the correct word,its like your fingers feel some resistance when you try to slide up the neck or from note to note.
is it me ??

[bigjohn]

I always find TI flats sticky for about a week. After that I love em. Before that I hate them!

[KennysFord]

hehe,
i just took TI flats of to try these,i know what you mean with them.i'll "stick" with 'em and see how they go.nice midrange on D'addario's tho'.

[Huge Hands]

I have had the same experience with both the unknown flats on my upright, and Labella flats I recently put on my Cort. It almost feels to me as though they have a thin plastic or rubber coating on them which gets grippy as my fingers cause friction?

I'm probably talkin b*****ks, but that's what it feels like.

[bigjohn]

[quote name='Huge Hands' post='208013' date='May 28 2008, 01:26 PM']I have had the same experience with both the unknown flats on my upright, and Labella flats I recently put on my Cort. It almost feels to me as though they have a thin plastic or rubber coating on them which gets grippy as my fingers cause friction?

I'm probably talkin b*****ks, but that's what it feels like.[/quote]


That's what it feels like to me too. Made a really bad mistake of changing my strings a coupla days before going into a studio a few months back. Was horrible!

[The Burpster]

Pete,

they are like that for a while. Its the sharp edges where the round wire has been ground down.

It does help if you wipe 'em down (hard) with an alcohol soaked rag before you put them on. Some D'add strings seem to have a 'packing grease' type lube on them from new which is also sticky but muckey as well....

[BigRedX]

I couldn't get on with these strings at all. I think they lasted a couple of weeks before I swapped them for TI Jazz flats.

[KennysFord]

thanks guys.
i'll stick with em for a while.
they do feel very grippy though.
bob,
i gave them the wotfor with fast fret and they were slightly better.i know what you mean though,you can feel the sharp edges where they've been through the grinder.
thanks all.

[Waterboarder]

Ive just found the exact same thing! They sound wicked but really difficult sliding up and down - anyone know if they do free up after a while?