Best Bass Strings For Metal – WATCH BEFORE YOU BUY!
Finding the best bass strings for metal can be confusing, to say the least. Click below to read customer reviews and get more information on them.
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Originally posted by UCXhP5YgHEm7UYleg94RU1VA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4mB4IOSZ1I
I don't think you should dismiss flatwounds so quickly. They have higher tension and tend to be thicker, which allows easier downtuning without clarity or floppiness issues. You can easily use BEAD tuning with flatwounds on a 34" scale length 4-string bass without having to file your nut. The smooth feel also reduces noise from moving up and down the neck; if you also play an active bass, then you can get a tone free of artifacts that might otherwise muck up your recording. If flatwound darkness is an issue, then playing with a pick and using stainless steel flatwounds (or Ernie Ball's cobalt flats, which are even brighter) with a hex core can make up the difference. Besides, there's no amount of aggression lost from your string type that you can't get back through a good distortion pedal. I've played exclusively flatwounds for years.
thanks. that's a useful sound comparison. i definitely am a nickel guy. i saw another youtuber tapping with SS and it was better than with. nickel, but for what i do, nickel is best. i can hear that nickel tone from Trooper coming through!
Go with the lightest guage stainless steel roundwound strings you can stand. Nickel is okay, too. Try the rotosound 85s in E standard. That's around 25lbs of tension on the low E. Lighter strings are easier to get great intonation but easier to knock out of tune by playing too hard. Go as light as you can for how hard you play.
I personally only play flatwounds even though I mostly play metal (Ghost, Gojira, Fleshgod Apocalypse etc.).
I just like that tight low-end with little to no highs that just pop your earsdrums… Q
SS for life as MESHUGGAH bassist Dick Lovgren uses DR DRAGONSKIN K3 light gauge strings (.40 – 100)
Round core or hex core?
Only Steve Harris uses flats for metal…
"Both flats and rounds have their own charactaristic sounds-". Should have kept that going
Excellent video dude
Which bass strings to sound like Meshuggah.. I know Dick Lovgren uses DR Dragon skin strings but are there cheaper alternatives that come close?
Any string on the market can be good for any style of music.
I do like the way Elixir Nanowebs sound in a heavy mix, however. They also feel good and last a while.
Great upload, thanks
Does video about bass strings for metal, but doesn’t play any metal riffs at all classic
I've been playing bass and guitar for a while and never noticed that there were different types of roundwounds!
Definitely going to check out stainless steel roundwounds, thanks a ton!
paul gray got better strings and a better guitar
-R.I.P tribute to slipknot
Juatin plays with Nickel strings, just saying.
Someone tell Steve Harris he's been using the wrong strings for 45 years ????
Not useful/click bate.
I recently started using ernie ball Colebolt strings
I dint think I'll ever go back they have a beautiful low and and when u really lay into the strings u get that nice metal clank
This dude literally just advertised a standard string winder. I'm not sure what to make of this.
What would be the best flat wound strings to get for a power punch knock down walls turn over cars ???? thank you for this video
Dude Steve Harris uses flat wounds and he has a a super bright tone
I would have liked to see you demo all of the strings through a distortion pedal. Possible idea for another video? I was reading a Sweetwater article recently which brought up an interesting point. Roundwound strings give you brightness, and then distortion pedals give you more brightness. So if you like using distortion you get brightness on top of brightness which can sound unnecessarily harsh. The theory is that the darkness of flats would balance well with the natural brightness of the distortion. Thoughts?
Commentaries be like, iron maiden is the only band of metal that matters in the world, lol