SLAP BASS – Which strings are best? ????????????
Generally speaking, flatwound strings will produce a sound that emphasizes the mid-range. Roundwound strings have more low-end thump and will give you a brighter and more aggressive attack in the high-end. Before you do anything, if you can get yourself a new set of roundwound strings, you’ve arrived as a slap bass player. You don’t want to be slapping on tired old strings.
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Omg the slap sound using flats is so funky! I could hear guitar comps with a little slap back tape echo already.
What are those flats!? I need me a pair lol
Tapewound all day baby
I'm surprised for so many cool comments for flatwounds. That afformentioned huge difference is about feel, too. From what I understand, the flats are more pliable and help kill fret buzz, which is going to make even a cheap bass more playable. I'm going to try Thomastik-Infeld JF345s… I already know I'm gonna love it. Thank you SBL crowd and crew. Y'all AWESOME! ✌️
My god I never knew it was the strings????This changes everything
What do tapewound strings sound with slap though!
Those flats sound so funky
pls tab out the riff at the very beginning pls someone
Love the double thumbing on flats. IAN you're the man.
I prefer brighter strings maybe cobalt
It’s NOT enough to say go with roundwound strings versus flatwound strings. If your roundwound strings are dirty, they’ll have often times very little of the round wound string character and tone one often is aiming for, and they’ll basically sound muddy like flatwounds.
CLEAN roundwound strings are a critical component of good slap tone. Even if you have to boil the string sets on your bass to give you a temporary return of that tone but need to save money- DO IT. The energy cost (gas or electric) to boil a set of strings to bring them back to life is exponentially cheaper than a new set of strings.
Love the feel of flats but I can't stand the sound, they sound dead on arrival. That's probably just the guitar player in me talking????
Rotosound flats is what I use. Xtra heavy. DiMarzio P&J on Ibanez Gio. Both pickups have self-parallel switch and go to independent outputs. Bass amp on the P. Guitar amp for the J.
Flat wounds FTW ????????????????????????
thought I was just doing it wrong, turns out i was on flats lmao
Either sounds gonna ended up in Metallica records.
i am pretty sure the bigger difference was you comparing a P bass to a Jazz bass
Thing is, as with everything in life, it’s always a compromise, I have used GHS bass boomers for a number of years now, if I go into a session that needs a mowtown/early pop sound, I turn down the treble
Damn bro! Did you throw that bass down a flight of concrete stairs? You know if you put it in a case it won't look like that. Lol
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Tape wounds all the way!!
Half Rounds for the win ????
I love the way the flat wound strings sound. They have a sort of funk that I don’t really hear with the round wound strings.
it's all about strings????
Is slap on the comeback?