Guest MoJo Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hXBdJkTDgbw&feature=related"]Albert King & SRV[/url] ...would I be near the mark if I strung my P-bass with flatwound strings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wateroftyne Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Great tone! They sound like dead-ish rounds to me.. not flats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutToPlayJazz Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote name='wateroftyne' post='394388' date='Jan 29 2009, 10:47 AM']Great tone! They sound like dead-ish rounds to me.. not flats.[/quote] I was thinking the same. Not very new rounds. Typical p-bass sound with the tone full up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassicinstinct Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='394389' date='Jan 29 2009, 10:50 AM']I was thinking the same. Not very new rounds. Typical p-bass sound with the tone full up.[/quote] Agreed, although I reckon you could get very close indeed via the D'Addario Chrome route too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MoJo Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Cheers. There ought to be a supplier of well played in round wound strings for all of us that don't aspire to be Mark King or Duff McKagan. I'll try the Chrome XL route and see how I get on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassicinstinct Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote name='bassman2790' post='394495' date='Jan 29 2009, 01:00 PM']Cheers. There ought to be a supplier of well played in round wound strings for all of us that don't aspire to be Mark King or Duff McKagan. I'll try the Chrome XL route and see how I get on[/quote] You're very welcome. Good luck - and don't forget to let us know how you get on eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 [quote name='bassman2790' post='394495' date='Jan 29 2009, 01:00 PM']Cheers. There ought to be a supplier of well played in round wound strings for all of us that don't aspire to be Mark King or Duff McKagan. I'll try the Chrome XL route and see how I get on[/quote] I've got a couple of grotty sets going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MoJo Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Don't you mean "relic'd" I've got loads of strings in my workshop that I've taken off my basses in the past but none of them have been "played in" so much as to have lost that characteristic roundwound brightness. I reckon you'd have to leave them on for a good couple of years before they sounded like the bass in the above link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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