MY NEW FAVORITE FLATS?? // Dunlop Stainless Steel Flatwound Bass Strings Review
After recently hearing some really good things about Dunlop’s flatwound strings, I knew I had to give them a try. After all, how could I ever pick a favorite flatwound string if I don’t try everything I can?? These strings are super cool, and in this video I give you four versatile demos of them. Are they my new favorite, and who do I recommend them to? Find out by watching. More info…
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Solid tone brother.
Great review, and excellent playing and tone!!
Very nice playing and demonstration. ❤love your playing man????
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Love your content, I've been looking for the "best" P for decades (20 years is decades right ????) I've owned a bunch of vintage P basses and to me mexican made instrument sound amazing. I've owned a road worn, a classic 50 and a standard mexican made 90s p and all of them sounded amazing. Better than most of the vintage ones i owned. I think the road worn was probably the best, although it was a tad too wooly (unlike the vintage ones I owned tbh), but the pickup seems to remedy that.
FYI the link to the string is for a Medium scale bass and will not work on the bass shown in the video or any other standard full scale bass. I found this out after they arrived. oops.
Great review! I have to ask though, which brand do you think feels more slippery under your fingers, Chromes or these Dunlop flats?
Gah! Sounds so great!
Awesome video !!
What can you say about string tension with flat wounds?
I just found your channel this morning! Man, we're blessed by your work. I subscribed! keep it up, bro.
These sound awesome, its just a shame they're so expensive! The price of bass strings all around these days is crazy.
Really Enjoyed your videos for this and other flatwounds. I’m surprised your 2 favorite flat sets are so unalike, but I get why you like them.
I’ve used Chromes on a number of basses, absolutely love the sound of them, but the stiffness and tension make them too difficult for me to play for very long. I just got my first set of TI 344 flats a couple of days ago, and am absolutely loving both the feel and the more upfront sound of them.
The Dunlops sounded fantastic with the pick playing you did toward the end of the video! ????
Wow. Those are versatile. Just enough top end bite. May need to get a set.
Merry Christmas ???? good sir, first allow me to say these are tremendous flatwounds. I have been strictly using D'ADDARIO flatwounds all year on both of my P basses. Which I love but I would consider strongly getting a set of these. We have drastically different styles or at least approaches to the Precision Bass. Yet in all sincerity I have always appreciated your channel. I've been watching your videos ever since playing Nirvana and Silver Chair were the most difficult songs I could play from start to finish.
I found your channel and subscribed. I don’t play bass but can u tell me if I were to pick up the instrument where do I start and get progressively better with practice? In other words is there a sequence order to attain a good building structure to get to intermediate in about a year? Youtube has great content but can be overwhelming with no mentorship and guidance. I will use flats when I buy my J bass because I like the old Motown sound.
Tried them… a bit too bright for my taste..I go for the late sixties sound, and for me, that is LaBella flexible flats…
I really wonder how long this zing would last before they mellow out?
Awesome review. Thought provoking. Maybe I’ll switch
How would you compare the Dunlops to LaBella's Deep Talking Bass flatwounds?
Thanks, Brother. Great review. Can you use these Dunlops with string through body basses?
LaBella, brother. I do feel the need for some zing. So I will try these on a bass one day!
I have roundwounds (factory) on a sire M7 6 string and havent switched strings, just to have versatility as the Sire has such a beautiful Pre-Amp.
I have a G&L 2000 with flats and its my go-to unless i need extra zing.
Not to discount the Set that I have from LaBella as it does mix the two aspects very very good for most applications.
I don t like rounds anymore in terms of feel so its all about what i can do with flats un less i need a round zing (rare but applicable)… bryan adams is an example. Personally I prefer round wounds in many of his bass player parts I have covered.
nice demo. I like a lot the Pyramid Gold Flatwounds on my yamaha BBP34.
Great video and great tones!
I’ve tried some different flats, like Ernie Ball and Rotosound. But my favorite feeling flats are LaBella Low Tension Flexible Flats. Quite thumpy, not very detailed, so not that versatile. But the feel is…luxurious.
That said, I’m looking at trying GHS Brite Flats next. Should have more clarity.
I bought a second bass from Jake Serek. At that time he was using Dunlop flats on his basses if you chose flat wounds instead of roundwounds. In his words they “feel broken in right out of the box.” I still prefer nickel roundwounds but really liked the Dunlop flats mainly due to ease of playing. They have moderate tension (not as stiff as chromes but not too loose like TI flats.) They are a good set of flats if you are on the fence about trying them. Also, they are not especially dark or bright (chromes). They do not come in an extra long (through the body) length or in a short scale.
This set sound pretty much the same as my La Bella , I use the FS 45 – 105 and they have pretty high tension. Maybe this dunlop are a little bit on the trebble side but I am much more interested in worn out flatwounds and it takes ages : I have my la bella since a year and they sound still pretty new. Hope you will do a video of this dunlop after few month to see how they settle in … cheers …
I think I have Dunlop stainless steel 105/45 flat wounds on my p bass. The felts are black on both ends and the balls are brass. I know they're Dunlop 105/45, but I'm not sure about the stainless. Do you know how to tell?
Interesting strings! They seem to really step back and make the voice of the bass take the lead. Sometimes hard to tell that they're really flats with the tone wide open. They also seem to have a bit more midrange presence compared to the Rotosound, but that's hard to tell since your other Roto/TI demo was done on the Jazz Bass. I'd agree that they might be great for flatwound starters or for people looking for something very versatile. I'd be missing some thump personally. The Chromes have that thump, but can lack a bit in the midrange. The TIs, from what I have listened to, have a great attack/articulation, but lack a bit in the bass. And LaBellas are known to be rather dark, but the demos that I have heard sounded really nice, with a good balance of thump, bottom end, and a very nicely rounded midrange.
Nice playing, and good to see someone demoing by playing some real-world bass line, and especially with backing so we can hear how it sits with other instruments.
Hi, how do they compare to the TI flats in terms of loose feeling? I love the loose feeling of my T.I's but need short scale for my squire sonic bronco. Cheers
Fender supposedly has low tension flats
I tried flats once the tension was way more that’s the roundwojnds but then maybe I just want used to the high tension and smoothness which felt very wierd
I've been playing flats for 20+ years. My faves right now are the Ernie Ball Cobalt Flatwounds. You can roll down the tone and get an old school sound. Full up and you're close to a roundwound tone. Throw on a Nordymute and you can get a faux upright.
Early Larry Graham was played with flats and I’ve always enjoyed the slap sound that he got. Everyone is roundwound crazy these days and this unique voice has been lost but slap on flats just punch through a dense mix in a way that rounds will never be able to do without massive eq
I would love to hear a direct comparison between these and the TIs.
Love the slap groove and tone
Labella DTFS for most things. If I need versatility chromes are alright enough. DTFS are my favorite pound for pound though
Gawd Dang…. I'm on a search. I was a TI guy, then now I'm on the La Bella Low Tensions flats….. The La Bella Low Tensions flats were so smoothly polished. This is important to me as I was in a bad fire and lost all the skin off both arms and hands. I'm a rare and grateful person as the skin grew back, but will not callus. Rounds tear my fingers. And I need modern sounds…. 😛 Thank you for your demo…. any others you'd like me to check out?
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Sounds great
TIs are still my favorites so far. I've tried most with the exception of the Dogal Jaco System Flat Carbon and the Ernie Ball flats (and knowing my taste I'm inclined to avoid them as I haven't loved their strings overall). I have these dunlops on my Acinonyx and I'm liking them a lot. I'd like to give chromes another chance I only had them on a fretless and they were good but not awesome on that bass.
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Recently bought a 60s Precision bass. Had rounds on it, not sure what I wanted, have tried TI's previously as well as chromes. Watched this and picked up the Dunlops the next day. I love how they sound on the bass. I can play a large catalogue of music with them and they respond to effects and touch in a massive way. I can dig in more than I can with T.I's, and the tension isnt as brutal as chromes.
What song did you play to at the ending?