I tried out Flatwound strings . . .

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Re: I tried out Flatwound strings . . .

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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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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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H671 wrote:I forgot to say that some of mine have been on for over 5 years.
I've had the same set of Chromes on my Precision since 2003.

Chromes might be the 'brightest' flats straight out of the packet.
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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
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.
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Re: I tried out Flatwound strings . . .

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Sound the same.
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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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Re: I tried out Flatwound strings . . .

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werdna wrote:Sound the same.
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.

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H671 wrote:[...] I am sure that I've read somewhere that this was normal back in the 60's.
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.
Unsure what the jags had - Maybe even heavier to compensate for the short scale?
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Re: I tried out Flatwound strings . . .

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bbrunskill wrote:
werdna wrote:Sound the same.
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.
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.
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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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nice playing.. gotta say I liked the sound of the roundwound strings more. Sounded fuller and brighter to my ears.

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Ahh jeez, now I’m thinkin about givin them a hoon :lol:
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