Anyone Playing Flat Wound on their Six String Guitars?

[Bruce]

Hi.

Recently I put D’Addario Chromes strings on my Mexican Strat because I love warm mellow tones and I am loving them playing through my Supro Delta King 10 amp. I am using their 11/50’s.

Is anyone else using flat wounds on their six string guitars?

Thanks.

savantcreative

[Michael Krailo]

Never tried those, what is the advantage over round wound? 11/50’s seems like a very heavy gauge. No way I would even consider anything in that gauge.

Go slow and practice correct technique, and your abilities will dramatically improve.

[sunjamr]

Me. I use flat wound 12s on my carbon fibre acoustic because I’m working on my slide guitar skills. Flat wound gives a really clean sound when used with a slide. Also sounds just fine when played without a slide. Visually speaking, they look pretty strange.

Sunjamr Steve

[Bruce]

I like them because they are very mellow and because they have very low string noise. I don’t bend to excess but they give me some interesting sounds like I might get on a hollow body. They also don’t have a lot of sustain which I like because the heavy strings sound like a bass.

savantcreative

[Bruce]

Yes. They do sound pretty when playing slide 🙂

savantcreative

[Michael Krailo]

I think I do remember something about having less noise during chord changes as your fingers slide into position. Never knew it was advantage for slide guitar. Good to know.

Go slow and practice correct technique, and your abilities will dramatically improve.

[San Luis Rey]

I used them years ago to reduce string noise. These days it’s coated elixirs on the acoustic and nickel wound D’Addario 10’s on electric.

Mike

[Bruce]

San Luis Rey wrote:

I used them years ago to reduce string noise. These days it’s coated elixirs on the acoustic and nickel wound D’Addario 10’s on electric.

Nice! I used them for a while before the flats. They are good. I like the lack of resonance with the flats.
I’m also starting to play a little slide and they work with that too 😊

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