Brighter Flatwound string recommendations?

[hooky_lowdown]

3 hours ago, Twigman said:

Have you tried d'Addario half rounds - they feel like flats but are much brighter

No they don't. I have them on a P bass right now, they in no way feel like flats, they are nowhere near as smooth. Finger noise is still there like rounds, just not as loud.

[Soledad]

12 hours ago, hooky_lowdown said:

No they don't.

Agreed. You get the least of both - lack the body / punch of flats in the lows and mids, and lack the wide spectrum brightness of rounds at the top. And they squeak. And I don't like 'em.
EB Cobalts.