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Current one has D`Addario ground wound strings & I also have a set of white nylon taped ones.
I switch between them, depending on what sort of music I am doing.
One other huge advantage is that half round, ground wound, tape wound or nylon wound all offer very little fret wear compared to round wound.
He found them quite hard to play without any real benefit in terms of sound, so he went back to the standard 45-105.
James Jameson started out as a double bass player, so was used to heavy strings.
Interestingly Steve Harris uses similar gauge Rotosound flats (50-110).
I've been using TI Flats for years now on pretty-much all of my basses. I did however, change a set on my P bass for Ernie Ball Super Slinky Nickels as I wanted to be able to take one bass to gigs and have a bit more zing where needed.
I totally agree with using the Tone knob to adapt your sound and find that on a P bass (probably more than any other bass at least to my ears) the Tone knob is definitely your best friend.
Also, when the strings age a bit, it becomes even more difficult to tell the difference between quite middy TI's vs. Nickel EB's plus tone knob. You'll save a small fortune too.
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Mind you, if I had the money for a really good double bass then I might be tempted to get some used strings as really good orchestral strings can be £600-800 for a set.
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