D'Addario ECB81S Chromes Bass Guitar Strings, Light, 45-100, Short Scale

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D'Addario ECB81S Chromes Bass Guitar Strings, Light, 45-100, Short Scale

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Pros

If you're going for old school sit in the pocket sounds these are a fine option. Big plus is that i'm not scoring the fretboard with the stock roundwounds that came with my fretless. Ibanez mikro is so much easier than a 34 scale bass and it still sou... Read More

They make slides effortless and blister-free. They are smooth, responsive, and even across the fretboard.

Cons

There is a lot of cloth wrapping between the ball and the metallic part of the string. Even if you put the cloth wrap on the nut and put the string on the guitar the metal part does not reach to the nut. Makes it impossible to set up the instrument.

Defect rate is just unacceptable. For $30, i really hope i can get this sorted out with daddario. Not worth the price whatsoever.

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Quality

I was apprehensive at first because of the price but once i felt and heard the quality, i could see why.

Started with the light gauge chromes on my fretless fender p-bass, and that wasn't bad.

Although they initially have a sort of metallic quality in terms of sound, this diminishes greatly over a few weeks, and they b... Read More

If you’re looking for a bright flat wound string you might want to split the difference with the daddario half rounds.

Packaging/appearance

It even had a nice slap sound fresh out of the pack but of course that will die down over time.

The packaging could be much clearer on the labeling.

I rolled the dice this time and bought used strings here on amazon, and they were still sealed in the plastic packaging.

Competitiveness

I recommend them to those interested in a set of flats that are lower than the more traditional, heavier tension, but more tens... Read More

These are so different than regular round wounds.

To be fair though, i have never tried any other flatwounds.

But ive found that to be the case with most flatwounds.

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bass, great, set, smooth and flat.

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This product had a total of 2,074 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 16 2023.