SR5 with TI flats

[Mobay45]

I know this has been talked about a lot here, but I can't help but comment on how good my SR5 sounds with the TI flats. Last Saturday was the first chance to play the Pearl Blue with Tort P/G SR5 at a gig and I had just put on the TIs last week. I really like the sound. I'll definitely be keeping it that way. And the plus side is that I don't have to change strings nearly as often as I was with the round wounds that I used to have on it. I still have rounds on my other 5 string should I decide that a particular song needs that sound though.

 

[basadam]

That's what I hate about my SR5. It sounds great with TIs but then it sounds great with slinkys, and I can't decide which one to use!!! I guess I'm gonna get another one.

Do you use a pick or your fingers with flats? I also cannot decide which sounds best - at least that doesn't require another bass

 

[Mobay45]

I use my fingers. I've never been able to use a pick. Something about being left handed and playing right handed I think. Just don't have enough coordination in my right hand to get the hang of using a pick.

 

[basadam]

Something about being left handed and playing right handed

How you do that :O

 

[Mobay45]

I am naturally left handed but I play bass the same as everyone that's right handed. I fret with my left hand and pluck with my right.

 

[Aussie Mark]

I am naturally left handed but I play bass the same as everyone that's right handed. I fret with my left hand and pluck with my right.

Me too. I write and use a spoon left handed, but do everything else right handed. It's kinda weird.

 

[tkarter]

I too am left handed and play right handed. Can pick if I want to but prefer fingers. And boy do the TI flats get the job done for me on my SR 5.

tk

 

[Mobay45]

The only thing I do right handed are play the bass, play drums and play the trumpet. I do everything else left handed.

 

[bovinehost]

Another vote for SR5s with TI Flats. Heinz has worn them for many a year now, although I do admit that I'm not sure what he was up to while traveling around the continental United States.