String change on my fretless open my eyes up

[badboy1984]

My westone fretless had a set of roto black nylon strings on. It play nice and go easy on my finger, but it never really give me that fretless sound i was searching for.

Decided to spend 12 pounds on a set of roto rounds gauge 40-100 and strung it on the fretless.

First plug in and play, i got my sound already. Light gauge is nice on the fretless and the rounds give so much mwag that i like.

[Painy]

Worked for Jaco!

[JPJ]

Yes, I tried flats but I couldn't get the growl I was looking for until I restrung with rounds.

[badboy1984]

Picking roto flats and nylon flats might be a bad choice to tried.

The roto jazz bass flats is super high tension to make it very uncomfortable to play.

The black nylon is thicker and produce lower output but the tone is smooth and deep. Good for double bass sound.

I've put a set of roto nickle rounds on, my fretless comes alive. Lots of brightless which i like for harmonic and lots of mwah tone. Not to mention my ebow works better on rounds then nylon strings.

[Phil Adams]

Ive got a cheapo fretless with well past it flats on, and another cheapo with well past it rounds on.
The old flats are very forgiving so you don't hear how bad my intonation is, the rounds are a real wake up call.

[badboy1984]

You are right about the intonation. THe rounds will makes me a better player lol

[Beedster]

Horses for courses, my Jazz FL sings with rounds, my 4003 FL was born to sing with flats, and does so

[gsgbass]

D'Addario ETB92 Nylon Tapewounds do well on my Fender Am. Std.'s. The Jazzes, Fretted, Fretless, and Precision. (long scale) (.50, .65, .85, .105)

Edited March 18, 2015 by gsgbass

[TheGreek]

Can't go wrong with the Status Black Tapewounds

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Available in 0.40 gauge too

Edited February 26, 2015 by TheGreek

[Dazed]

Elixir nanowebs do it for me. Just seem to have a depth to the tone I didn't get with flats.

[Shedua511]

Only issue with roundwounds on a fretless bass is that they will chew up your fingerboard... I love the sound, so I live with that.

[Bassassin]

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Only issue with roundwounds on a fretless bass is that they will chew up your fingerboard... I love the sound, so I live with that.
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This - Roto rounds particularly, considering how quickly they can chomp through frets!

If you want a bit roundwound growl from your fretless, I'd suggest halfrounds or ground wounds, much more friendly to your board & less squeaky on the fingers.

Jon.

[3below]

Fitted my usual TI flats to Corvette fretless - hmm. Is now much improved with Chromes. TI flats then Chromes on SG bass - hmmm, Pyramid golds that were on it when I got it are the biz. TI flats on all my other bases - super. Some strings do not suit some basses (or me).