Black Diamond Jazz Flatwounds

[foxthebiker]

Morning!

Has anybody tried Black Diamond strings?

What did you think?

Good value or not? Did they sound good / last well?

My local dealer has these in stock but cannot find any reviews of these here.

He seems to have a lot of these in stock and are priced at £29.99 so not cheap then! I reckon he has had a special purchase of these and not sold any since he has asked me to report back if I try them and let him know what I think?

Hmmmm.

Jazz Chrome flatwounds!

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[Buzz]

Never ever heard of them.

[thewalruswaspaul]

[quote name='foxthebiker' post='210945' date='Jun 2 2008, 09:49 AM']Morning!

Has anybody tried Black Diamond strings?

What did you think?

Good value or not? Did they sound good / last well?

My local dealer has these in stock but cannot find any reviews of these here.

He seems to have a lot of these in stock and are priced at £29.99 so not cheap then! I reckon he has had a special purchase of these and not sold any since he has asked me to report back if I try them and let him know what I think?

Hmmmm.
Jazz Chrome flatwounds!

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I just took a set of these off of my bass they lasted all of 2 weeks before I decided enough was enough, I bought them at a local music shop as they were the only flats in stock.
IMO these strings are horrible , the A string was kinked when I took it out of the packet and the strings were so rough they felt like roundwounds , they looked kind of like them too. Soundwise they had no thump and sounded like dead roundwounds rather than flats. The tension also seemed high for the gauge.

[foxthebiker]

[quote name='thewalruswaspaul' post='211318' date='Jun 2 2008, 07:28 PM']I just took a set of these off of my bass they lasted all of 2 weeks before I decided enough was enough, I bought them at a local music shop as they were the only flats in stock.
IMO these strings are horrible , the A string was kinked when I took it out of the packet and the strings were so rough they felt like roundwounds , they looked kind of like them too. Soundwise they had no thump and sounded like dead roundwounds rather than flats. The tension also seemed high for the gauge.[/quote]


Cheers....that's what I wanted to hear...

I actually took a look at these today and I have to agree, I initially thought they were round wounds n ot flats! I will not be stringing up with these then.

Many thanks for the heads up. Owe you drink I think....

[squire5]

I seem to remember our guitarist using Black Diamond strings as a sort of 2nd rate standby,but that was back in the late 60s.They weren't too highly thought of then.But maybe things have improved since then.