I tried out Flatwound strings . . .
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Re: I tried out Flatwound strings . . .
Im aware a good portion of the surf guitar community around the world use flats on their offsets. I plan to experiment a little this year. Given I play single coils through some fairly brutal upper mid and treble focused amps (ac15 etc) some tubular goodness form flats might be just the ticket
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Re: I tried out Flatwound strings . . .
Yes, I think so. The duller wound strings allow you to have the treble up higher, without your ears getting shredded.
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Re: I tried out Flatwound strings . . .
I've had the same set of Chromes on my Precision since 2003.H671 wrote:I forgot to say that some of mine have been on for over 5 years.
Chromes might be the 'brightest' flats straight out of the packet.
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Re: I tried out Flatwound strings . . .
I had flats on my jaguar (which I"ve recently sold) and they were great. I am sure that I've read somewhere that this was normal back in the 60's.StrummersOfThunder wrote:Im aware a good portion of the surf guitar community around the world use flats on their offsets. I plan to experiment a little this year. Given I play single coils through some fairly brutal upper mid and treble focused amps (ac15 etc) some tubular goodness form flats might be just the ticket
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Re: I tried out Flatwound strings . . .
I reckon the flats sounded better on the breakup demo, and a bit more acoustic like in the clean bit... hmmm...
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I was surprised how similar they are. In the mix of the song, you couldn't tell. Played solo there's a small difference, the roundwound strings break up and distort more than the flats. Flats have a slightly different midrange sort of 'note' to them. By the sounds of it the flats will get a lot duller sounding over the next few weeks and so the difference will become wider.werdna wrote:Sound the same.
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Re: I tried out Flatwound strings . . .
Yip, and they were often mental gauges too. Strats and teles if I'm not mistaken rolled off the line with 13-56; les pauls had 12-54.H671 wrote:[...] I am sure that I've read somewhere that this was normal back in the 60's.
Unsure what the jags had - Maybe even heavier to compensate for the short scale?
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Re: I tried out Flatwound strings . . .
One bonus we haven't mentioned is that there is no string squeak. I play a lot of Barr chords which gets real noisy on rounds.bbrunskill wrote:I was surprised how similar they are. In the mix of the song, you couldn't tell. Played solo there's a small difference, the roundwound strings break up and distort more than the flats. Flats have a slightly different midrange sort of 'note' to them. By the sounds of it the flats will get a lot duller sounding over the next few weeks and so the difference will become wider.werdna wrote:Sound the same.
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Re: I tried out Flatwound strings . . .
Just put a set of GHS brite flats on the Esquire. Don't think I'll be using regular roundwounds anymore, loving these things
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Re: I tried out Flatwound strings . . .
Ahh jeez, now I’m thinkin about givin them a hoon
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