Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

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.

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.

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.

I explored roundwounds for over 30 years!

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

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?).

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

Maybe there's a compromise here?

Half rounds are lame!

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!