what strings do you use

[mobass]

Just wondering what strings everyone uses on thier musicman basses.

 

[Bill]

Super Slinkys on my SR4 & Regular Slinkys on my SR5...exactly what they leave the factory with!

 

[bassgod0dmw]

Hybrid Slinkys...

 

[bovinehost]

We all use Ernie Ball strings, at least as far as the Forum is concerned.

My way of saying - EB sells strings, so it's perhaps inappropriate to give other manufacturers free advertising here.

Thanks for understanding!

Jack

 

[mobass]

We all use Ernie Ball strings, at least as far as the Forum is concerned.

My way of saying - EB sells strings, so it's perhaps inappropriate to give other manufacturers free advertising here.

Thanks for understanding!

Jack

I kind of figured that anyways. Sorry for the post. Feel free to close or delete the thread.

 

[Baird]

Hybrid Slinkys on my 4 string SUB and Super Slinkys on my Bongo 5.

I am very happy with everything EXCEPT the 40 gauge G string in the Super Slinky 5 set. Waaaaayyyy to thin and twangy for me.

 

[adouglas]

Stock Slinkys.

They sound great and are inexpensive to boot.

Why use anything else?

Before I got my Bongo I was doing the same string shuffle that many of us go through. Tried fancy coated strings, expensive imported strings, REALLY expensive imported flats (which I liked, BTW), el-cheapo Internet-only strings.... But the stock Ernie Ball strings on the Bongo were so good I saw no reason to use anything but the same in the future.

I did happen to have a fresh set of another (high end) brand left over from my last bass, so I put them on at the first change just to use them up. Meh. I like the Slinkys better, and that's what the Bongo is wearing right now. A fresh set of the same is waiting for the next semi-annual string change, due in a month.

 

[EBMM7181]

I use Ernie Ball Slinky Bass Strings.....

The others can use all the '' acme '' strings they want - As for me and my basses, its Slinkys

 

[Oh! Henry]

I use the long, skinny, shiny ones

 

[phatduckk]

i use Stainless Steel Super Slinkys almost exclusively.

Sometimes I'll use nickel Super Slinkys but that's only cuz my local dealers dont carry the Stainless and i gotta order em. so when i order em i get 20 sets at once to give me a years worth of strings.

i just tried Hybrids and im undecided on how i feel about em. I like the sound but the tiny bit of extra thickness feels wierd.... maybe ill like those more if i get used to the new guage and tension

 

[maddog]

phatty can stare at the sun and not blink

 

[bassmonkeee]

I've got EB flats on both of my Bongos. The new DD will wear Slinkys.

 

[Aussie Mark]

I use two different "acme" brands. Not because Ernie Ball doesn't make great strings, but simply because over the years I've become very fond of the others. I use acme brand 1 on my Stingrays, and acme brand 2 on my Bongo.

 

[Moondog]

'90 SR4 - Acme Brand 1
‘92 SR4 - Acme Brand 1
'00 SR4 - Acme Brand 2
'05 SR4FL - Acme Brand 3
’05 SR4 - EB Super Slinky
’06 SR4HH - EB Super Slinky

 

[mobass]

i use Stainless Steel Super Slinkys almost exclusively.

Sometimes I'll use nickel Super Slinkys but that's only cuz my local dealers dont carry the Stainless and i gotta order em. so when i order em i get 20 sets at once to give me a years worth of strings.

i just tried Hybrids and im undecided on how i feel about em. I like the sound but the tiny bit of extra thickness feels wierd.... maybe ill like those more if i get used to the new guage and tension

I thought about trying the hybrids. The super slinkys are fine with me, though.

 

[rhythmCity944]

Hybrids on the '02 Stingray

Power Slinkies on the '79 Sabre - awesome fat strings for this bass in the studio with a C#G#C#F# tuning

i've used other brands but Slinky strings beat all others in tone, cost, feel, quality...other brands are great (from experience) but some come with a hard price to swallow if you change your strings every week for gigs...

 

[Figjam]

hyrbids for sterling
powers for hh sr5

 

[Aussie Mark]

a hard price to swallow if you change your strings every week for gigs...

I change cars more often than I change strings. That's the great thing about flatwound strings.

 

[strummer]

Just wondering what strings everyone uses on thier musicman basses.

The kind that came on the basses: green packs of Slinkies, for 5 string basses. They are the best.)

 

[delberthot]

50,70,80,105 slinkies on my 30th SR4
Acme on my SR5 - I'mgoing to change them for slinkies when they're dead but I don't like wasting anything.
I'm going to be tuning my 20th SR4 D, G, C, F when i get it so I have a set of power slinkies ready for it.

I'd like to add that this has nothing to do with my affinity to anything EBMM - I too have tried all brands of strings from the most expensive to the cheapest and find that these are best on MM basses for what i do.