{"id":10396,"date":"2017-01-17T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=10396"},"modified":"2017-01-17T12:31:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T17:31:32","slug":"what-do-black-nylon-flatwound-bass-strings-sound-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/gear\/hardware\/strings\/what-do-black-nylon-flatwound-bass-strings-sound-like.html","title":{"rendered":"What do black nylon flatwound bass strings sound like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One particular set of RotoSound brand strings BBG carries is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/rotosound-tru-bass-88.htm\">Tru Bass 88<\/a>, available in 4, 5 or 6 string in scale lengths of short, medium, long and extra long in a variety of thicknesses.<\/p>\n<p>What makes the 88 set stand out is the fact the string is black nylon flatwound.<\/p>\n<h3>What is the purpose of this string?<\/h3>\n<p>The original purpose when these were introduced back in 1962 was to emulate a double bass sound. <\/p>\n<p>As the video below will explain however, the string is very good for reggae and pretty much any music style that requires a &#8220;deep, boomy&#8221; tone to it.<\/p>\n<h3>Video demo<\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DVEoNFSRDw0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Video demo on a fretless bass<\/h3>\n<p>The 88 set sounds great on a fretless too!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i97gnnz3LeM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ready to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/rotosound-tru-bass-88.htm\">try a set for yourself<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One particular set of RotoSound brand strings BBG carries is the Tru Bass 88, available in 4, 5 or 6 string in scale lengths of short, medium, long and extra long in a variety of thicknesses. What makes the 88 set stand out is the fact the string is black nylon flatwound. What is the &#8230; <a title=\"What do black nylon flatwound bass strings sound like?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/gear\/hardware\/strings\/what-do-black-nylon-flatwound-bass-strings-sound-like.html\" aria-label=\"More on What do black nylon flatwound bass strings sound like?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}