which strings pull the hardest?

[rickaddict]

Round Wounds!!!

[rickaddict]

Flat Wounds!!!

[rickaddict]

Round Wounds!!!

[johnallg]

Okay, Jeff, that will be all!

My solution was to have more than one Rick and put flats on some and rounds on others.

[rickaddict]

Okay, Jeff, that will be all!

Sorry. Did all that yelling hurt your ears?

[jps]

My solution was to have more than one Rick and put flats on some and rounds on others.

That's what I did:

4005WB - Chromes
4001s - TI JR
4001V63 - Chromes
4003 TI JF

[edski]

I'm late, and have limited experience, but Fender 9050's are fairly high tension.

[admin]

Jeffrey: Why not give us a description of the differences in tone and feel.

[johnallg]

Okay, Jeff, that will be all!

Sorry. Did all that yelling hurt your ears?

Sure not! I can't hear out of my left anyway. I was just funning, and by the time I posted you had put the second pair up which made it even funnier to me!

[johnallg]

I'm late, and have limited experience, but Fender 9050's are fairly high tension.

Yes they are. I bought two pairs (hey, they were on sale for $13 each locally) and when I put them on the 4004C the neck moved wuite a bit from the Roto rounds I had on it, and the Rotos are known to be higher tension. Besides, the 9050s feel more taut than other strings I've tried, round or flat. I have them on my SX Jazz and they sound great on it.

[rickenbrother]

Round Wounds!!!

Flat Wounds!!!

Round Wounds!!!

DUCK SEASON!

RABBITT SEASON!

DUCK SEASON!..

FIRE!!

[kiramdear]

My solution was to have more than one Rick and put flats on some and rounds on others.

I like that idea. Could someone underwrite the whole experiment as a consumer research report, please? Or just send a check?

I don't think roundwounds are so much fun, they're rough on my fingers and harder to slide around on. I have a busy, kinda slippery-slidy playing style, a bit o' the Macca if I may say so. And with bright flats like the chromes, I'm not missing anything from the springy roundwound sound except a bit of string noise. Why work harder than I have to?

[johnallg]

To get that piano-y clank? So many overtones come off rounds. My '75 4001 is just dripping with them. i just changed strings (Webstrings cheapie Stainless) on my 4003S because I put a magnetic HS and a '73 HG (neck) in it and the strings on it were dead. At a jam today, with my SVT-410HLF it sounded truly wondrous.
http://www.webstrings.com/electric_bass ... index.html

[jps]

Jeffrey: Why not give us a description of the differences in tone and feel.

I'll work on that!

[ben_brown]

But flats aren't fun...

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