D’Addario ECB82 Chromes Bass Guitar Strings, Medium, 50-105, Long Scale
D’Addario Chromes Flatwound Bass strings are famed for their smooth feel and warm, mellow tone. The strings are wound using an outer flattened, “ribbon” wire which is then polished to a smooth finish. Chromes deliver a deep, rich low end tone that’s ideal for jazz and R&B, but also has applications in contemporary pop music.
Product Features
- D’Addario’s medium gauge flatwound bass guitar set
- Ribbon wound and polished for ultra-smooth feel and warm, mellow tone
- Fits long scale basses with a string scale length of up to 36 1/4 inches
- Made in the U.S.A. for the highest quality and performance
- String Gauges: Wound .050, .070, .085, .105
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Really nice strings that add new options to my sound Been playing bass in a cover band that plays a wide range of mostly danceable music: Pop, Top40, R&B, Funk, anything groovy.I play two Fender Jazz Basses. One is a standard MIM and the other is a Japanese Aerodyne with P/J pickups.I have been playing Rotosound Swing Bass Roundwounds on both. But…. I have been noticing that with this kind of music I was always turning down the tone and bridge pickups to get a deeper sound like on most of these original tunes. Also found myself…
My favorite string. Warm and punchy, these strings make even slap bass sound dark. They give a characteristic “thump” on every note and are articulate, with a good attack and sustain as you want it- play up by the fretboard and they will sustain for what feels like an eternity; play near the bridge and they will thump and disappear before you need to fit more notes in.These strings also have an incredible life span. If you needed too, you could play these about three times a week and make them last…
I’m primarily a guitar player and this is my first foray into flatwound strings and I was not disappointed! I put these on my Schecter Stiletto Studio 4, playing fingerstyle for heavy-ish prog/alt rock and the sound is great. The feel is unbeatable. I was slightly concerned with the strings being to mellow for the rock style, but they have plenty of tone available to power rock or even metal. Don’t expect them to be as bright as roundwounds though.They do sound good with a pick, but…