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Decided to tune my #Ibanez SRD905F #electricBass to drop C with a low G on the bottom. Wanted to brighten up one note in a riff. lol at trying to play chords on a #fretlessBass.
#DAddario #tapewounds and stock #flatwounds strings. This tuning does work fine. I'd prefer all the strings to be a bit thicker.
If I were to keep it like this, I'd get the bottom four of a 5-string set or heavier flatwound singles. The low G is fine as tapewound but, I'm also using a nasty fuzz pedal. 😈
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I keep thinking I'm going to like roundwound strings on my Gibson ES-175 guitar. This is my second set of .013-.056 D'Addario XL's -- one nickel on steel, the other pure nickel.
They sound good, but the finger noise is too distracting.
I had a fresh set of flatwound D'Addario Chromes (also .013-.056) on hand, and I put them on today. They sound great. And no finger noise.
A few months ago, I tried an old set of Chromes that was probably in the drawer for 20 years. Those sounded bad (and were actually rusty in spots), but the new ones are really nice. A textbook flatwound set.
And the most critical string for me, the low E, is not tubby and dead out of the package like in my previous La Bella set (though I did really like LaBella Tapewounds before that)