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Post by soundterrible on Nov 26, 2023 13:12:25 GMT
Hi, just wondered what strings are fitted to these two basses from the factory. I've ordered both and plan to fit flats on the JB40FL, but wondered if the stock strings are worth keeping.
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Post by kodiakblair on Nov 27, 2023 5:33:42 GMT
soundterrible The PB-50 comes with D'Addario EXL 170 and they are awful. Classic single coil P-bass tone is flats with a mute, tapes sound pretty great too. Spend the money and replace those D'Addario with something decent, La Bella, Thomastik or Fender. £40 to £50 may seem hugely expensive but it'll be 10 years before you'll need to change them again. Roundwound strings start to dull after a short time so you'll replace them more often, costing you much more in the long run. JB-40 ships with some unknown set of roundwound. Flats on a jazz bass are an uncommon pairing these days but it's a good sound
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Post by soundterrible on Nov 27, 2023 18:01:13 GMT
Thanks for the reply, looking at the photos of the two basses online they both seem to have D'Addario strings with coloured ball ends. I have an HB jazz bass made from a kit with unknown strings and was going to use the strings from one of the new basses if they were good.
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Post by kodiakblair on Nov 27, 2023 19:51:24 GMT
Thanks for the reply, looking at the photos of the two basses online they both seem to have D'Addario strings with coloured ball ends. I have an HB jazz bass made from a kit with unknown strings and was going to use the strings from one of the new basses if they were good. Good reasoning though web page photos could be 5 years old, March 2018 was the change-over date from Wilkinson to Roswell pickups. No big deal, strings are can always be changed at a latter date. I did the set up on a friend's JB-40, they're sound basses so the job was a breeze I won't bore you with my thoughts on the PB-50, I've written more words praising that bass than Tolstoy used in "War and Peace" Short hand version is this, from the 190+ basses I've owned over the last 45 years the PB-50 is in my top 5 in order of importance .
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Post by soundterrible on Nov 27, 2023 20:48:15 GMT
Looking forward to getting them, might give the Fender 9050L flats I have a go on the PB-50.
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Post by kodiakblair on Nov 28, 2023 17:35:50 GMT
Looking forward to getting them, might give the Fender 9050L flats I have a go on the PB-50. Great choice, Fender flats are ideal for that woolly old school thang Hope the delivery time isn't too long
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