Mustang strings ...

[Adee]

What round wound strings are you using on your Fender Mustang Bass (thru body stringing)?

I have these but can’t identify what they are, coloured ball ends might help!?

 

[Harryburke14]

if my memory serves me correct they are D'addarios - hard to tell which ones as chrome/nickel/steel all look the same to my eyes 

[NJE]

I am pretty sure Ernie Ball have not Long released a short scale set that fit traditional Mustangs.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

If I may go off on a tangent slightly, due to the thru-body stringing on a mustang, strings for a 32" scale are better than 30" scale strings (eg as used for a 70s musicmaster or danelectro longhorn)

I've had Thomastik TI JF-324 flats on mine for about a decade but it was time to change them and I felt the urge to get something with a slightly higher tension. I was initially planning to track down a set of the flats LaBella make specifically for the mustang, but then I saw that the Justin Mendal Johnsen sig mustang comes with Fender 9050L stainless flats and I managed to get a set of these for £18. They've been on the bass for about a month now & I love the sound & feel, but I don't know whether they'll last as long as the TIs.

9050L is a long scale set & they don't make a short scale version, and this results in the E string having just over a full wind of the wound part of the string going around the tuner and the A has about half a wind, but they seem rock solid, so I'd imagine that any long scale rounds would similarly work well. It may be worth thinking about going up a guage if you have a favourite set for 34" basses.