It’s 2022 which flatwound strings are you using on your Starfire Bass?

[lungimsam]

And please tell what you like about them and which scale length of it you are using.
Thanks for your thoughts.


I have tried many over the years but I have two more I’d like to try. The Thomastik Jazz and the Dogal braided cores.
So far I like Ernie Ball Group IV and also their Cobalt flats best. Bright like rounds but can use the tone knob when I wanna get excellent round and warm sound. They only come in long scale.

 

[mgod]

T-I. I like tone and the feel. Short scale, Jazz series.

 

[lungimsam]

Thanks, glad to hear the short scale version fits.
Which vendor do you buy them from?

 

[Happy Face]

Thanks, glad to hear the short scale version fits.
Which vendor do you buy them from?
I see they are 56$ on amazon but looks dubious and seller got mixed reviews.

Jazz Flats are easier to find than the Jazz Rounds, which I recall Mgod prefers. But both can be located..I'm away so I cannot find the bookmarked vendors. I think that Just Strings stocks the flats but not the rounds.

 

[lungimsam]

Yes, I would want the flats.
Do their rounds chew up frets? Or are they easy on the frets?

 

[Happy Face]

Dan wd know better, but I have them on my Guilembric. They do not feel like like fret files as do some Rotos. I just don't like the green wrappings. (Important to me as all I care about is how I look on stage.)

 

[lungimsam]

Dan wd know better, but I have them on my Guilembric. They do not feel like like fret files as do some Rotos. I just don't like the green wrappings. (Important to me as all I care about is how I look on stage.)

I would like the green as it would match my green Starfire!

 

[Happy Face]

I would like the green as it would match my green Starfire!

Ah, color coordinated!

 

[fronobulax]

(Important to me as all I care about is how I look on stage.)

My solution is to find the shadows and hide in them.

But since some of my appearances already have a uniform dress code there's only so much I can control.

 

[Happy Face]

My solution is to find the shadows and hide in them.

But since some of my appearances already have a uniform dress code there's only so much I can control.

Did you photoshop the halo off?

 

[lungimsam]

Nice Betts Bisonic bass! Bet it sounds great!!

 

[RVBASS]

I use Labella low tension flats on my Starfires. Very smooth feel, lower tension but not floppy, and the sound is what I like (clear but not bright, thump but not dead sounding). Medium scale.

 

[EWH]

 

[fronobulax]

HEY - THAT'S NOT A PILOT...!!!

I'll return to this foto at some point in the future, frono - you know I will...

Inspired by

Coil tapped Novak BSDS in a solid body

 

[fronobulax]

HEY - THAT'S NOT A PILOT...!!!

I'll return to this foto at some point in the future, frono - you know I will...

Pilot in some distinguished company. No dress code.

 

[4mal]

Thomstic Jazz Flats on my Newark Street Starfire II. Awesome bass!

 

[lungimsam]

The short scales with the .106 E string or the long scales with the .100?
I ordered the short scales. Hoping it works out good.

 

[Happy Face]

Ah, new packaging. TI also does (or did) offer 324 sets with a slightly thinner E strings. Offered as being for Hofner basses where the nut does not welcome the fatter E string.

 

[lungimsam]

Interesting that the packaging says these will sound like a double bass and were made for fretless bass.

 

[lungimsam]

TI's sounded great at home but with their softer attack could not penetrate enough onstage for me to be able to hear what I was playing (lotsa competition with drum subs and low keys and 5 vocalists, 2 guitars) so back to Ernie Ball Cobalt Flats 2815 40-95 set. These seem to be the best for my ears regarding flats on all my basses (Ric, Gibson, Guild). Feel great, too. Almost as bright and punchy as rounds.