I love flats too. They are mellower, but also seem to have a much more even EQ response with fat round bass and mids where rounds are kind of peaky mid/treble heavy. They are also just nice to feel, I feel like they make you chill out when playing. I have some Thomastik flats on my jag right now.
Another string thats really nice are the D'addario half-flats which are rounds that have the tops ground off. They are a nice balance of both worlds. I think low budget flats take this route of taking a round wound and grinding them flat, where as genuine flatwounds start with a wrap that is flat to begin with all around and have a silk inlay between the core and the wrap. The flat thomastiks are really floppy and supple when handling them compared to roundswound strings.
Re: i just put on flatwounds for the first time
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 10:07 am
by friendship
Anyone use flatwounds on acoustic?
Re: i just put on flatwounds for the first time
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 12:38 am
by Psyre
friendship wrote:Anyone use flatwounds on acoustic?
Fuck no man, you're libel to get your ass kicked for doing something like that, man
Re: i just put on flatwounds for the first time
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 2:11 pm
by friendship
Psyre wrote:
friendship wrote:Anyone use flatwounds on acoustic?
Fuck no man, you're libel to get your ass kicked for doing something like that, man
Re: i just put on flatwounds for the first time
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 3:36 pm
by goroth
All the treble, all the time.
Bright as shit round-wounds please
Re: i just put on flatwounds for the first time
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 6:42 pm
by Psyre
friendship wrote:
Psyre wrote:
friendship wrote:Anyone use flatwounds on acoustic?
Fuck no man, you're libel to get your ass kicked for doing something like that, man
Re: i just put on flatwounds for the first time
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:06 pm
by Mudfuzz
friendship wrote:
Psyre wrote:
friendship wrote:Anyone use flatwounds on acoustic?
Fuck no man, you're libel to get your ass kicked for doing something like that, man
Don't pay mind to the trogs
Re: i just put on flatwounds for the first time
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:13 pm
by Chankgeez
What's up with him making the mic shake?
Re: i just put on flatwounds for the first time
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 9:34 pm
by friendship
that's the power of swing chank
Re: i just put on flatwounds for the first time
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 9:41 pm
by Chankgeez
#overenthusiasm
#don'tmeanathing
Yes to flats on acoustic. I like it as "dry" as possible.
Re: i just put on flatwounds for the first time
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2017 10:17 pm
by kosta
Fuck me, that guy is playing the hell out of that guitar. Sounds great.
Re: i just put on flatwounds for the first time
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 7:59 am
by duffmcshark
I have a set of D’addario 11’s on my Jazzmaster and love them right up to the point when I try to bend that 22 wound G string. I kinda want to try some half rounds since I don’t want to go lower than 11’s, and maybe throw these flats on my lap steel.
Re: i just put on flatwounds for the first time
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 8:19 am
by Chankgeez
Flats on a lap steel are great!
I didn't like half-wounds when I tried 'em. For me, they had the disadvantages of both rounds and flats and the advantages of neither.
Re: i just put on flatwounds for the first time
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2017 10:06 am
by Mudfuzz
I've never cared for wound g strings on electric guitars... One of my favorite sounds is to bend the shit out of a 29 plain fucking hard as string gauge to find though...
Re: i just put on flatwounds for the first time
Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2017 1:04 am
by popvulture
friendship wrote:Jim Halpert was a regular in Motown's house band, played on a lot of the timeless classics.