Anyone use d" adairo half rounds

[jkthomas]

Anyone use d" adairo half flat half rounds. Does it change setup??. Just bought my strings from amazon so I can send them back if you guys hate them. They are ground down in the finger side. New Tech that I don't know anything about. But they were 40+ bucks for light long scale pack. Do understand I am cryptic on good days.

 

[fronobulax]

Dunno. Never tried them. But then I've got a set of Rotosounds that I bought circa 1976 on a bass right, now so strings are not a major concern of mine.

I'm assuming you are talking about a Pilot which makes a difference only because most of the string talk is about Starfires which have a shorter scale length.

In an extreme case changing strings might require adjusting the truss rod, the bridge height and the sliders that control intonation. But it is often true that people change strings, play and then adjust what doesn't feel right rather than try and pre-emptively optimize things.

 

[jkthomas]

Dunno. Never tried them. But then I've got a set of Rotosounds that I bought circa 1976 on a bass right, now so strings are not a major concern of mine.

I'm assuming you are talking about a Pilot which makes a difference only because most of the string talk is about Starfires which have a shorter scale length.

In an extreme case changing strings might require adjusting the truss rod, the bridge height and the sliders that control intonation. But it is often true that people change strings, play and then adjust what doesn't feel right rather than try and pre-emptively optimize things.

Yup on the pilot. its a long scale

 

[jkthomas]

So the strings are round but ground down on the top. They are not real flats.

 

[jkthomas]

 

[jkthomas]

 

[davismanLV]

D'Addario... just for reference. Not to be a bitch/dick or anything.... <3

 

[Minnesota Flats]

Not on bass, but I've used EHR370s (.011-.014-.018-.028-.038-.049) on guitar and liked them.

 

[lungimsam]

I used a set of these (D'Addario ENR71S Half Round Bass Guitar Strings, Regular Light, 45-100, Short Scale) on bass. Very nice strings. But I was hoping the ground-down-ness would eliminate finger squeaky noise. It did not. Still noisy like rounds. To my ears anyway. They sounded warmer to me than stainless rounds. Nothing wrong with the strings though. They are nice quality strings. I think Phil Lesh uses them these days.

 

[mellowgerman]

These can be a bit of an acquired taste. Out of the package, the ground down surface can have a bit of a tacky/sticky feel at first. In terms of tone, I thought they sounded more like nicely broken-in nickel roundwounds than they sounded like flats. Finger noise is reduced a bit but still a bit of that squeak there since they're not totally smooth like flatwounds. If you love the old school sound of traditional flatwounds like I do, these probably will not be your favorite. That said, if you're a player who's on the fence and likes qualities of rounds and flats equally, these may be a good compromise for you. Certainly not bad strings and I know some players who really love them.

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Same thing here with the "stickiness" on bass. Somehow, someway the microscopic grooves between the wrap seem to grab your flesh. I never played with them long enough to fill in the grooves with shredded flesh for the "stickiness" to go away!

 

[jte]

It's been at least forty years since I used the D'Addario HR-72 Half-Rounds, but from about '78 until '82 I pretty much used them exclusively on my Precision. I eventually decided rather than being the "best of both worlds", that for me they combined the things I liked least about flats and rounds. They lost the sound I was after rather more quickly than I wanted and didn't feel that much different from rounds. I tried a few sets of the stainless half-rounds they came out with to replace the original nickle ones (before they went back to nickles) and used a few sets on my '79 StingRay too. I found the GHS Brite-Flats, another really good modified round like the D'Addario Half-Rounds to be more suited to what I wanted at the time- and those were the original factory strings on my StingRay.
mellowgerman's comments are spot-on. They won't sound like new rounds and they won't sound like broken in flats. But they might be a good compromise for you.