Dean Markley Flats

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:35 pm

I was working on an Ovation acoustic fretless bass for Mike Crisom ... it had the bronze round wound strings ... so I had an old set of Dean Markley flat wound strings that had been sitting around for about 6 years ... we put them on and they sound good ... the acoustic bass and no frets and the flats makes for an interesting combination ...

ya that's right ... you heard me say something good about flatwound strings ...

winston · Post by **winston** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:51 pm

Interesting. You feeling OK Jeff? LOL

I only like the sound of round wound (Rotosound)on my bass even though they are by all accounts hard on it.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:38 pm

ya all of my basses have rounds ... but that acoustic fretless sounds good with flats ...

jps · Post by **jps** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:46 am

Miracles do happen!

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:12 am

I think Jeff just wanted to get those flats out of his house for good!

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:35 am

Nothing sounded better on my 4005 than nylon tape wound flats.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:08 am

we were going to put tapewound flats on it but it was a short scale bass and the tape wound flats were long scale and when you cut a tape wound string the tape comes off ...

sloop_john_b · Post by **sloop_john_b** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:20 am

Flatwound strings on an acoustic fretless bass? There's a novel idea...