Flats versus Roundwounds, again.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Tue May 24, 2005 3:05 am

I love EB-2's, I had one and the first time I played it on a gig my drummer looked at me and said "now that's a bass!"

I was going to say the same thing about the Hofner copy, try them on a... ahemmm more expensive bass like a Ric.

Jeffrey I have an Eko Hofner copy with single coils on it and it actually sounds good with flats, doesn't sound like a Hofner at all (which I don't think necessarily sound bad, Mac made them sound pretty good or was it GM?)

I'm telling you Nate, it's in the new magazine Flatwoundplayer, September 2005.

admin · Post by **admin** » Tue May 24, 2005 3:18 am

Dean: It looks as if we are the only ones taking the time to explore the other side. I continue to become more accustomed to the round wounds and have almost forgotten the texture of the flats. I am facing a dilemma though. Where is the Yoda when you need him? Find a new Rickenbacker bass, I need to, for the round wounds.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Tue May 24, 2005 5:09 am

I keep one with rounds on it. I play flats more for the solidity of sound rather than how they feel, rounds are more slinky feeling than flatwounds usually. When I play my round wound bass I miss the solid bottom.
Peter, you need a gold 4003 to go alongside your silver one.

jps · Post by **jps** » Tue May 24, 2005 1:15 pm

I explored roundwounds for over 30 years!

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Tue May 24, 2005 1:38 pm

Yeah me too, close to it anyway, but I went back home after all these years.

nattiep · Post by **nattiep** » Tue May 24, 2005 2:39 pm

I would give flats a try but if I don't like them I'm stuck with them for a while. I usually wait about a month or two in between string switching (hey, I'm poor, alright?).

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Tue May 24, 2005 3:52 pm

Nate if you happened to like them they'll last you years, imagine the money you'd save. I'm poor right now too.

soundmasterg · Post by **soundmasterg** » Tue May 24, 2005 6:30 pm

I've tried rounds and flats and like both for what they can do. My problem is I only have one bass right now and so I had to make a choice between one or the other, and I chose TI flats. When I get anothe rbass, I may try rounds on it again.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Tue May 24, 2005 7:40 pm

Gibson basses and hofners and flats ... now there is a way to truley get a lame bass sound ...

86kubicki · Post by **86kubicki** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:02 am

In your opinion Jeff! I had a Gibson RD a few years back strung with flats that (once again, in my opinion), sounded great. Had to sell it to finance more Ricks!

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:18 am

I played for 4 years with gibson and hofner basses with flats ... then I got a Ric with rounds ... I could never go back ...

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:37 am

I like Gibson basses, especially the EB series. I'm not crazy about Hofners however although I would love to own another one.
Remember: Friends don't let friends use round wounds. PS. I got that quote from another poster here but I liked it so much I had to steal it.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Wed May 25, 2005 4:08 am

nope ... it is friends don't let freinds play flats ...

edski · Post by **edski** » Wed May 25, 2005 4:17 am

Maybe there's a compromise here?

Half rounds are lame!

hieronymous · Post by **hieronymous** » Wed May 25, 2005 4:23 am

I gotta admit, Jeff's comment - "Gibson basses and hofners and flats ... now there is a way to truley get a lame bass sound ..." - kinda ****** me off. I know that a lot of people are into the put-down/sarcastic kind of humor here, but it still got to me.

So while I was ****** off, I dug into my archives and edited this together:

"gibsonfuzzflats"

It's similar to something I posted in the FDP Forum last year, but I went back to the original bass part - Gibson EB2 through a Black Cat Bass Octave Fuzz (the higher part is my F****r Jaguar Bottom Master through the same pedal).

I'm not ****** off anymore, but I figured I'd post it anyway. It's only 30 seconds, but it's a 192 kbps mp3. Also, it might go dead at some point in the (near?) future...

OK, let the mudslinging continue!