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Anyone have experience with Webstrings? I want to get a nice yet cheap set of flats for my 5-string.

Nope, haven't and it looks like I won't either, I can't find singles there and I they don't put together the gauges I like. I usually order from Juststrings.com and I uses Chromes on almost all my basses [I always have], but I like my sets to have the high strings lighter then in most pre-packaged flat sets so I order then is singles or get the "custom light" set and get a single B. The gauges I like: 40-60-80-100-130. So your going to have to guinea pig the webstrings.

I bought the heavy stainless steels for my T-bird a while back, and I really liked them. Nice and zingy, and they handled super obscenely low tunings like a champ. Plus, the best strings are new strings.

theavondon wrote:Plus, the best strings are new strings.

I respectfully disagree with that. Strings should be changed when their cores rust and they snap.

I purchased from Webstrings about 8 years ago (or so) and I was pleased. I preferred going into the music store to get strings, so that's why I stopped. I don't believe they're are good as D'Addario or what have you, but they were a great price.

Mudfuzz wrote:I respectfully disagree with that. Strings should be changed when their cores rust and they snap.

I prefer the John Entwistle school of string changing. As often as possible to keep them as bright as possible.

theavondon wrote:

Mudfuzz wrote:I respectfully disagree with that. Strings should be changed when their cores rust and they snap.

I prefer the John Entwistle school of string changing. As often as possible to keep them as bright as possible.

That'd fine and all but not me... I've had the same set of flats on my P for 14 years.....?.......... still sounds fine...

Mudfuzz wrote:Nope, haven't and it looks like I won't either, I can't find singles there and I they don't put together the gauges I like. I usually order from Juststrings.com and I uses Chromes on almost all my basses [I always have], but I like my sets to have the high strings lighter then in most pre-packaged flat sets so I order then is singles or get the "custom light" set and get a single B. The gauges I like: 40-60-80-100-130. So your going to have to guinea pig the webstrings.

Oh Mud, you're such a princess!

spacelordmother wrote:

Mudfuzz wrote:Nope, haven't and it looks like I won't either, I can't find singles there and I they don't put together the gauges I like. I usually order from Juststrings.com and I uses Chromes on almost all my basses [I always have], but I like my sets to have the high strings lighter then in most pre-packaged flat sets so I order then is singles or get the "custom light" set and get a single B. The gauges I like: 40-60-80-100-130. So your going to have to guinea pig the webstrings.

Oh Mud, you're such a princess!

Maybe... but I brake B strings every now and then so there is some ballance

And so what! we all like what we like. I like light flats with high action, it sounds and feels right. One should always find what suits what they like best and stick with it, all else is pointless.

i have chromes on my ibanez asb140. i ordered them from http://www.stringsandbeyond.com/decchwaflwoe.html i put them on about three years ago maybe not quite. flats seem to last forever and i wipe my strings down after i am done playing.

i did put chromes on one of my les pauls and i like it but i dont think i would put them on my other guitars. well, my other solid body guitars...

clydes001 wrote:I purchased from Webstrings about 8 years ago (or so) and I was pleased. I preferred going into the music store to get strings, so that's why I stopped. I don't believe they're are good as D'Addario or what have you, but they were a great price.

this. IF you change strings often they are good, but if you like to change strings every 4-8 months not so great. I used to buy 3/4 packs but stopped since some batches started staining while being in thier packs.

Mudfuzz wrote:
And so what! we all like what we like. I like light flats with high action, it sounds and feels right. One should always find what suits what they like best and stick with it, all else is pointless.

And, I like nearly tension-less stainless steel rounds. Yet, we all

I love nickel flats and super low action.
Change strings? Well if I got a new bass, I’d put strings on it.

I haven’t tried webstrings, I go to Just Strings and Strings and beyond.

I do like their add copy

Silver Wound - Loop End - Acoustic Gypsy Jazz: If you're a big fan of Django, Bireli or the Rosenbergs then you will absolutely love these on your Maccaferi. If you don't know who or what we're talking about go back to regular acoustic strings.

MM

Mudfuzz wrote:

theavondon wrote:Plus, the best strings are new strings.

I respectfully disagree with that. Strings should be changed when their cores rust and they snap.

A bit about James Jamerson from wikipedia:

James Jamerson used La Bella heavy-gauge (.052-.110) flatwound strings that he never changed. He never took care of the instrument, and it is possible that the neck eventually warped, as many claimed it impossible to play. While this made it more difficult to fret, Jamerson believed it improved the quality of the tone. On occasion, Jamerson also tucked a piece of foam underneath the bridge cover to lightly dampen the strings' sustain. Early in the '70s, a producer attempted to modernize James Jamerson's sound by asking the bassist to switch to brighter-sounding roundwound bass strings. Jamerson politely declined.

I played with a bassist who used to boil his strings when he thought they were getting cruddy.