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Achtane wrote:Yeah, that's why I never change them; I hate that zing
I do have a .150 balanced set from Circle K and they are great, man. Definitely the best roundwounds I've played and as a pleasant surprise they were well worth the cost. If I ever use rounds again it's gotta be theirs.

I have the 4 string .150 set coming in next week. What tuning do you use them with?

Ancient Astronaught wrote:

Achtane wrote:Yeah, that's why I never change them; I hate that zing
I do have a .150 balanced set from Circle K and they are great, man. Definitely the best roundwounds I've played and as a pleasant surprise they were well worth the cost. If I ever use rounds again it's gotta be theirs.

I have the 4 string .150 set coming in next week. What tuning do you use them with?

BEAD on the Jag bass, not too floppy but not too tight either. The B string is comically huge...
A is possible as well but since I almost always use the neck pickup and I'm using a 1975 Peavey head through a 215, B is like the cutoff point for sound definition.
If I still had that Hartke 410 it'd probably be punchy, if lacking in bass.

Wait.... you are suppose to change them?

gawd. i fucking HATE companies that only let you use their product as if you were at a near-luddite level of uncomfortable with technology.

i just got a Logitech Harmony remote. it has 4 dedicated macro buttons at the top that are RIDICULOUS. it's a turn on this turn off that setup... so fumbly and shitty.

all i want to do is program it to switch through my devices, there's only 4, a Blu Ray player, Media File Interface thingy (WD TV Live), TV and Receiver. most of it works pretty well where you can learn different buttons from the og remote and rename what it shows on the little screen and all.......... but you can't do a punch through on the volume. so if you have the receiver running the audio for every device like every fucking home theater setup EVER, you have to use a macro at the top to have it switch through each thing. fucking annoying.

urf. now that i think about it if i install the receiver 4 times, rename it to each device, then learn each of the appropriate buttons from the og remotes it'll leave the volume pointed towards the receiver. but that's just a fucking STUPID way of doing it.

torn on whether to do that or order a URC remote like the one i had and loved that died recently.

Achtane wrote:BEAD on the Jag bass, not too floppy but not too tight either. The B string is comically huge...
A is possible as well but since I almost always use the neck pickup and I'm using a 1975 Peavey head through a 215, B is like the cutoff point for sound definition.
If I still had that Hartke 410 it'd probably be punchy, if lacking in bass.

Awesome that's exactly what I'm using them for on my p-bass, .135 for the B is still too loose so i wanted something even thicker for more tension to get rid of the wobble that makes it almost impossible to tune in the middle of a set without taking 3 minutes. To hear it can do drop A is good, I need something for my drone project and it will most likely be DI'd so I'm not too worried about the frequency range of the cab and speakers.

When I bought from Circle K, I bought custom sets since the tunings I use don't exactly match their pre-chosen sets. Luckily they don't charge any extra for custom sets But both of them are basically balanced sets.

For my five-string, tuned ADADG, .150/.112/.079/.059/.043

For my four-string, tuned CGCG, .130/.086/.065/.043

hows the CGCG I was thinking about maybe going that rout

Derelict78 wrote:hows the CGCG I was thinking about maybe going that rout

I dig it, a lot. It's heavy and cool and has some fun easy chord shapes. I've felt for many years now that drop C is the ballsiest tuning. Lower than that, it and it gets muddy and you can't really hear the fundamental clearly. But it's still low enough to sound really heavy.

Although I've really been heavily thinking about going all the way to cello tuning (CGDA), tuning in fifths just seems more natural to me.

C standard, normal gauge strings.

Makes 'em all loose and rubbery and jesus sounding.

That said, I find myself really stoked on "A," and if finances ever allowed me I'd love to get a four-banger strung (low) A D G B.


I think Joe "I'm from Colorado where we have great beer and awesome snow" Gress tunes in fifths.

...Jesus sounding?...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT4TleId1ck[/youtube]

Im in c standard right now and the only reason I have not tried dropped C or CGDA is because I dont feel like doing a setup on my bass

Mudfuzz wrote:Wait.... you are suppose to change them?

If I'm gigging and playing one bass, constantly, I'll change rounds maybe once every 6 months. And that's a big maybe, usually at least a year goes by.

Changing flats.... nope. I have 2089ufij428f727hf9fs9 hours on a few sets of Thomastik flats, they still sound the same as they did brand new: AWESOME.

D.o.S. wrote:
I think Joe "I'm from Colorado where we have great beer and awesome snow" Gress tunes in fifths.

On one bass. The others are AEAD, EADG, and EADG. The one in fifths is a lot of fun to write melodies and different sounding chords on, but kinda hard to keep up in a band situation. Especially since I'm way more used to fourths.

C standard ftw.
and I'm gonna play in C standard when I find some cool people to do some weird music with me.
for the time being, it's AEAD.

don't really know why everyone keeps forcing the ultra mega low tunings. it's mostly guitar players.
dunno. I love the punch of a tight string.