Flat Tops

danowens

I bought a Yamaha silent guitar and in an attempt to make it sound more like my tele with flats, I put Flat Tops on. Do they become less zingy? 

I was expecting a flatwound-type sound but it doesn’t sound much different to before when it had elixirs on it

Tannin

The sound does change, @danowens, it settles down a bit and becomes a bit more normal (defining "normal" as "like an orthodox roundwound") but not all that much. In my brief experience with them, they never looked likely to sound at all like flatwounds.  

Mellish

@Tannin ; - slung on a set of Pyramid Western Folk tonight. First impression: bloody good strings! I hear more volume than I get from MA-140 or Elixir Nanos. Great fingerpicked, too. The tone they give suits me right down to the ground. I wouldn't have found them if I hadn't read a post of yours. Many thanks mate, my HD-28 never sounded so good