A parchment pickguard would make those pop in my opinion. The fretboards are too red-ish to play ball with a tort pickguard with similar hues. Very nice basses all the same!
Rosewood varies in colour some.... anyway that's the reason I thought the tort worked - matching the fretboard.
I am surprised about the bound board rejection. Like I don't care too much either way.
WHAAAAAAAAAT?!
Revisionism has a new name and it is "Jake'ism". You used to be up in arms bro how crap binding is, how it devalues a bass and "is just plastic for which wood is sacrificed". You might have conveniently forgotten, Jake, but we all have an eye on you ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af1DAWB2mrw
Tort has its place in nature.
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On a bass, it can look just right, but it's not a fetish to me.
Reptile Orgy - Now that's a band name :-*
Whoa!
That's a damn pervy cartoon - you must be working from home, I think your firm's Firewall wouldn't allow such sexy reptiles!
And dammit I just bought this '64 II.
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But you have enough basses with roundwounds!
Besides flats & pick is a great combination. Try D'Addario Chromes, they still have enough zing and don't sound muddy at all, just focused.
But you have enough basses with roundwounds!
Besides flats & pick is a great combination. Try D'Addario Chromes, they still have enough zing and don't sound muddy at all, just focused.
And dammit I just bought this '64 II.
I've never understood why anyone would want flatwounds with zing.
Weird, cause I don't like the feel of rounds...sort of like fingernails and chalkboard.
LaBella low tension flats just feel good to me.
Weird, cause I don't like the feel of rounds...sort of like fingernails and chalkboard.
LaBella low tension flats just feel good to me.
That's how I feel about Flats - Different strokes, and again I'm not being critical of those who like them. I always had rounds on every bass so the tactile is what I'm accustomed to.
D'Addario doesn't pay me for this (man, I should really ask!), but Chromes are in a league of their own. They have flatwound thud and fundamental, yet also a halo of (never nasty sounbding) presence, not like trebly rounds at all. And they never lose that, I've had the same set on my Washburn AB-20 for more than a decade, they still retain sparkle.
They are also smooth to play, not yucky like some old fllat sets can be, Labellas especially. The only drawback of Chromes is that they make bending a real man's job, they're stiff as hell.
Ñow, does anybody have Jim D'Addario's number?
Weird, cause I don't like the feel of rounds...sort of like fingernails and chalkboard.
LaBella low tension flats just feel good to me.
Reducing fretwear would be my best guess.
I can't play flats to save a life, but will admit that a lot of my toying with tapewounds initially came from desire to save whatever was left of frets on my older basses...and the fact that White Nylons can emulate rounds pretty darn well was a huge plus for me.
Remember, Der Maestro says flatwounds need to be changed more often. :mrgreen:
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Zis izz luffly :mrgreen: ;D 8), Dave, how could you keep it from me all ziss years, I zought vee vere friendz?!
And what happened to Der Maestro, why is he no longer part of Fender's sales assault?
Another German scientist with skills transferable from making V2 rockets to making bass strings....
Another German scientist with skills transferable from making V2 rockets to making bass strings....
Yeah, our ideas generally really fly and hardly ever bomb.
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I've never understood why anyone would want flatwounds with zing. Like Ernie Ball promoting their Slinky Flatwounds as sounding like rounds. Why? If you want it to sound like rounds, buy rounds.
I've never understood why anyone would want flatwounds with zing. Like Ernie Ball promoting their Slinky Flatwounds as sounding like rounds. Why? If you want it to sound like rounds, buy rounds.
Flatwounds with a pick can be a great sound, so many examples. But it's not for everybody, and it's not supposed to be zingy.
Mainly for fretless. To get the Jaco tone without forming grooves in the fingerboard. I'm using half-rounds (groundwounds) on my fretless.
I never use stainless steel rounds, and I've never had a problem with fret wear using nickel-plated rounds.
Mainly for fretless. To get the Jaco tone without forming grooves in the fingerboard. I'm using half-rounds (groundwounds) on my fretless.
Also for those with sissy hands or eczema like I have (as well as a compulsion to clamp down with your fretting hand much more than you need to) flatwounds are less hurty.... but if you like the sound of rounds. Or if you like sliding a lot you don't get as much extranious noise (like a pic slide on guitar) covering up the actual note.
There's also fret wear, but as Dave said (implied) that is a long slow process unless using steel string - but roundwounds, being textured like a file, would speed it up at least a little no matter the material. In fact I have used string cutoffs before to file nut slots - you know they're sized right.
I've used string cutoffs too, but most nut materials are softer than frets.
Nickel strings on nickel frets will make an impact over a decade or so easily. Even water wears away the rock. Sure, with steel strings it's just more of a threat, but either way it happens if you keep and play the bass enough. Nobody is saying you can saw through a fret in 10-15 minutes like you can a cheap plastic nut (as is it takes a surprising while - roundwouunds aren't the most efficient file and I wouldn't use them to slot a fresh nut so much as to widen/deepen existing slots a smidge especially when trying a new string gauge).