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Dustin Plumb is a multi-instrumentalist from the Pacific Northwest. He has a Bachelors' in Music from the University of Oregon. He resides in Las Vegas and runs a sound design company...read more
"Hello! My name is Dustin, and I am going to talk about flat wound strings. Flat wound or nickel wound strings are wound with a flat ribbon instead of a wound wire. I have illustrated this in my little prop here. This is a guitar cable wrapped around the cardboard tube. Notice that there are ridges between each of the ones here on the guitar cable and gaps, string noise. This guitar strap wrapped around this cardboard tube illustrates flat wound strings, there are no ridges and no gaps, it is nice and smooth and you have no string noise. Now although a flat wound string has reduced string noise, it also has little bit of a reduced brilliance. In many genres, dull is synonymous with bad, jazz players though often strive to get that perfect amount of dull in their tone. On most electric guitars the low E, A and D strings are wound, while the G, B and E strings are unwound, and on an upright bass there are almost always flat wound, each string is almost always flat wound and as the jazz bass is one of the pillars that defines a jazz sound. It will only make sense that the bass strings on a guitar would have a similar temporal quality. This similar upright bass tone can be especially useful one doing walking bass lines on the low E and A strings, and chord counts on the higher strings, something like this… "
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martunes said
on 8/2/2008 Great explanation DP