Things you don't quite understand.

[rfurtkamp]

Eh, rounds have their place. Personally I can't stand stainless steel rounds or otherwise noticeably bright strings though. I'm liking flats a lot more lately.

Need stainless guitar strings for body chemistry, I'm one of those guys who can corrode some formulas of stainless steel by looking at it funny - regular strings last a night at most otherwise.

And stainless flats on the Jazz bass, same reason.

[behndy]

i.... don't know shit about strings. i've always used rounds, that's what Dingwall makes, and they are delicious.

flats freak me out a little, half rounds are kinda interesting.

those plasticy things on Kala's are scary and intriguing. THEY ROLL AROUND.

[Mudfuzz]

Why are P-Basses so awesome?

Because. They just are.












and on and on and on...

[rfurtkamp]

^I've always found the Jazz to be better balanced as a weapon in time of need at a bad club. The offset swings and connects better. ;0

[Mudfuzz]

I'm not sure... hard to beat the classic on that one...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adIeDI3NgbI[/youtube]

[Gearmond]

How anyone can hate playing roundwounds..it's so beyond me!

Because: They sound like shit, they feel like shit, they look like shit, they tear the shit out of your hands, they grind shitty groves in fretless fingerboards, all they are good for is making shitty scraping noises are far as I can tell and I keep cheap a shitty squire P with shitty roundwounds for doing just that type of shit.

they sound like tits. flats sound like turds having sex in mud, and if i wanted that, the tone knob is right there. if they tear up your hands, man the fuck up >:U. and if rounds are good enough for Jaco, they're good enough for you.

[Mudfuzz]

flats sound like turds having sex in mud

If that is what you get then yur do'n it wrong.

[Gearmond]

flats r dum

[theavondon]

BLUE STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELZ

ALL OTHER STRINGS ARE TOO DULL FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE



FUCK ALL OF YOUUUUUUUUUUUU

[dubkitty]

i like flats. i prefer my bass to go THUD more than TWAAAAANNG, and also have the roundwounds-eat-fretless-fingerboards problem.

the Precision Bass is so awesome because like the Telecaster it's one of Leo Fender and his associates' simplest and most perfectly executed ideas. there's nothing to add or take away from it, and it works for everything from polka to death metal.

[DuoSonicII]

Here is something you can't understand: how I could just kill a man.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Here is something you can't understand: how I could just kill a man.

I don't understand how it's possible to use the thumb on pickup style after trying "floating" for a day.

They both work for me for doing different stuff.

[The Mad Owl]

why don't more people play hollow and semi-hollow guitars? especially in noisier music? you'd think feedback would be a GOOD thing there, no?

i hear you!

got two semi-hollows, i play noisier post-punk and some shoegaze

[rfurtkamp]

Hollow and semi-hollows were just too expensive when I was gigging for anything I liked, and was afraid of roadworthiness and didn't like not having a big club in a gig bag while waiting for a taxi.

[Gunner Recall]

Who let all these bass players in.
Pretty soon Tom will have to rename this place "I Loved Talk Bass But Then It Got Lame So I Came Here"