You know when you get drunk and you order something... DR Sunbeams

[fretmeister]

It appears that one night when I was a bit piddled and on Amazon I bought some DR Sunbeams.

I just found out when I got the dispatch notification.

 

Are they any good?  

[invertigo]

I tend to bounce between them and Hi-Beams on my Jazz. The SBs have a bit more mids and an overall warmer tone, but still plenty of that top end bite. Play pretty much the same as they're round core too, nickel feels a bit slicker than steel. That's about it really!

[fretmeister]

As far as I know they will be the first set of roundcore I've ever had.

My J (sandberg) has Dunlop flats on it at the moment. I like them very much but as the Sunbeams are on the way I'll just have to take the flats off carefully and store them.

[hooky_lowdown]

Sunbeams are pretty smooth feeling roundwounds, one of the smoothest I'd say, so you may like them as they're as close to flats (feel-wise) as you'll get from roundwounds.

[Muppet]

They're my string of choice - I love 'em! Works really well with my Precisions. 

[fretmeister]

I'm now looking forward to them. Should be here by the weekend.

[Beedster]

They are amazing on fretless

[EBS_freak]

DRs - since trying my first set, I've now found my home brand. Never felt compelled to move since.

[Mudpup]

You got away lightly even if you don't like them.....i managed to sponsor some penguins 🙄

[fretmeister]

They are now installed on my Sandberg.

Seem to be very high output compared to the flats I had on there.

Quite smooth feeling for rounds. Bit bright at the moment but give it a week and they'll calm down.

I think I like them. Just a shame I cant try them with a band at the moment.  

[walshy]

12 hours ago, fretmeister said:

They are now installed on my Sandberg.

Seem to be very high output compared to the flats I had on there.

Quite smooth feeling for rounds. Bit bright at the moment but give it a week and they'll calm down.

I think I like them. Just a shame I cant try them with a band at the moment.  

Yeah I have them on a couple of P basses. I love them, settle down nicely too and just sound great. 

[fretmeister]

1 hour ago, walshy said:

Yeah I have them on a couple of P basses. I love them, settle down nicely too and just sound great. 

That's quite subliminal... you are telling me I need more than 1 P bass?

I'll let the wife know!

[walshy]

3 hours ago, fretmeister said:

That's quite subliminal... you are telling me I need more than 1 P bass?

I'll let the wife know!

At least 11! That’s what I have 😂

[fretmeister]

You have a problem! 😂

[geoham]

On 28/08/2020 at 13:18, walshy said:

At least 11! That’s what I have 😂

Wow, I thought I needed to thin the heard of five basses, three of which are jazzes! (Two fretted, one with rounds one with flats, plus a fretless)

[walshy]

7 hours ago, geoham said:

Wow, I thought I needed to thin the heard of five basses, three of which are jazzes! (Two fretted, one with rounds one with flats, plus a fretless)

Absolutely not, remember more is better 😂

[Maude]

On 25/08/2020 at 17:43, Mudpup said:

You got away lightly even if you don't like them.....i managed to sponsor some penguins 🙄

Spill the beans then. What are they doing, skydiving? 

[el borracho]

A few years ago I was talking in the pub to someone about maybe getting a 5 string sometime. Got home, looked on ebay & there was 3 finishing within half an hour. What could go wrong??

I was outbid on the Stingray & the Roscoe Beck but won the G&L. I've still got it.

On another occasion I bought a Tokai Hard Puncher but we don't talk about that 😁